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Articles, Smart cities, Sustainability April 6, 2020

Why are climate-conscious cities often the least affordable?

Cities can do a lot to stop climate change. They can fill their streets with electric buses, pass strict efficiency rules for its buildings, and…

Advanced Tech, Climate Change, News & Comments, Renewables, Smart cities

Smart water heating could help in South Africa’s energy crisis

Articles Biofuels Green Tech

Green ammonia could slash emissions from farming – and power ships of the future

For the past 100 years, a simple molecule has had an immensely positive impact on our world. Ammonia, which comprises three hydrogen atoms bonded to a single nitrogen atom, is widely used to make the fertilisers enable us to produce…

Articles Climate Change Renewables

Electrifying buildings and cars can rein in electric rates

Electricity prices stand to rise in California because of wildfire costs—but converting more of the state’s buildings and vehicles to electricity generated from low-cost renewable resources could help limit these increases and help keep electrical energy affordable. This conclusion comes…

Articles Smart cities Sustainability

Why are climate-conscious cities often the least affordable?

Cities can do a lot to stop climate change. They can fill their streets with electric buses, pass strict efficiency rules for its buildings, and switch to powering the place with clean energy. But there’s a problem that mayors rarely…

Articles Policy & Strategy

Change before we have to

This time it is not business as usual. Empty streets, no people, no cars, clear blue skies, producing less, consuming less, reinventing habits, schedule and priorities. It looks like fiction, but it is real. And global. What happens next door…

Articles CCS Policy & Strategy

Northern lights – send us your CO2

In March, a consortium of oil giants Equinor, Shell, and Total finished drilling an exploratory well off the coast of Norway. This time not searching for oil or gas, but in the hope of sending CO2 to be permanently stored…

Articles Climate Change Sustainability

Change diet, add lentils first

Climate change must be stopped before it stops us! How can we do this? We must evolve from a fossil-fuel driven economy to a more sustainable one. Many industries burn vast amounts of fossil fuels. The result is an increase…

Articles Smart cities

Sustainable urban planning makes smarter cities

The world is moving away from traditional energy sources towards more efficient and smarter energy systems. The Smart City concept is not new anymore, and it’s slowly gaining traction. The ‘smart’ concept has evolved from technology-driven progress towards social values.…

Articles Power to X

The flexible virtues of PtX

The Power of X – not talking here about the Marvel mutant superheroes, but about technologies that can help us to fight climate change. Southwestern Iceland, 2011: the George Olah plant marks a milestone for CO2 utilisation from carbon capture…

Articles Biomass Climate Change

The Great Biomass Boondoggle

The urgency of the climate crisis is inspiring some extreme and unproven ideas for how to hide carbon and cool the planet, such as ocean fertilization, turning CO2 into rocks, and seeding the atmosphere to dim the sun. Arguably one…

Articles Biofuels Climate Change

Brazil sugarcane growth can meet biofuel need and not drive deforestation

Sugarcane production in Brazil could expand by more than 5 million hectares (19,305 square miles) by 2030 to meet demand for ethanol biofuels, according to a study published in the journal Energy Policy — with potential impacts on the nation’s…

Smart cities

Why are climate-conscious cities often the least affordable?

Sustainable urban planning makes smarter cities

Intelligent building technologies are critical to a low-carbon future

Race to 100% Clean

Carbon Disclosure Project revealed top 105 global cities for climate action

Smart water heating could help in South Africa’s energy crisis