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Sustainable Development Goal
A common thread runs through the history of the waste-to-energy business: Investors get the sequence wrong. Entrepreneurs’ energy gets expended, and capital is converted to waste. Fulcrum BioEnergy took a different tack, by spending $100 million, and a decade, figuring out exactly what works best. In 2019, it will be gathering municipal solid waste–which costs next to nothing–and...
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All-electric aircraft manufacturer Eviation Aircraft has announced its first commercial customer — Cape Air, a Massachusetts-based regional airline that operates in the US and the Caribbean. Israel-based Eviation is developing Alice, an all-electric airplane. The firm is currently showing off the first fully operational Alice prototype at the Paris Air Show (as seen above), where it...
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Sustenir is an urban farming company that uses controlled environment agriculture to grow non-native plants in Singapore. Seen here are regional sales manager Jack Moy and co-founder Benjamin Swan. The company is also looking at using AI to monitor plant growth. GROWING cold-weather crops such as strawberries and kale in Singapore might seem impossible to...
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A recent article in local publication Merkur from Germany reported on how the search for oil ended up with a geothermal heating plant that today supplies the city of Erding with heat. For now more than 20 years STEAG New Energies GmbH Erding has supplied the city of Erding with geothermal energy from resources at...
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Solar panels may be able to supply us with much more than just clean energy; this new research says that it might also help crops to thrive in arid areas. Agrivoltaics, also known as “solar sharing”, is the co-locating of agriculture and solar photovoltaic panels. The idea has been gaining traction in recent years; however,...
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They don’t do ‘small’ in the United Arab Emirates. The world’s thirteenth richest country builds its own islands and boasts the tallest skyscraper in the world, the Burj Khalifa, which itself is surrounded by enough towering glass-covered skyscrapers to require a fleet of robots to clean them. And now, this country that has risen from poverty to become the world’s...
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In early 2018, Cape Town, South Africa came dangerously close to being the world’s first major city to run out of water. People lined up for blocks to collect spring water. Stores sold out of receptacles like buckets and bowls. Bottled water was rationed in tourist-heavy parts of the city. April 12 was designated “Day Zero”—the...
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“Where does your water come from?” Friesen hit me with the question almost before I had time to sit down. I stuttered. Uh…well…heading into an interview where I thought I would be asking all the questions, I was thoroughly unprepared for the question, but stammered off on my way just the same. “Southern California is...
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Powering buildings costs America $430 billion a year and accounts for 40 percent of total energy use. Almost half of that is used for heating and cooling. Now scientists have given our oldest building material, wood, a makeover to make it eight times stronger, highly reflective, and able to radiate away building heat without using any...
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Ellen, the most powerful all-electric ferry in the world, has completed sea trials, survived shakedown cruises, celebrated its maiden voyage, and has now entered revenue service on the 22-mile route between the cities of Søby and Fynshav, on the islands of Ærø and Als in southern Denmark. That voyage is seven times longer than any...
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