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Climate Change, Energy & Pollution
Start-up Salient Energy is developing an alternative to lithium batteries using zinc, resulting in a cheaper, longer lasting and safer energy source. The advent of electric vehicles is quickly increasing the need to expand the world’s grids and coupled with the shortage of lithium metal, there is some urgency to …
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It’s official: Alberta’s oilsands tailings ponds are leaking. Now what?
Climate Change, Energy & Pollution
New evidence from the Commission of Environmental Cooperation proves that Alberta’s oil sands are leaking toxic tailing fluid into the groundwater and many questions who will be responsible for the remediation of these sites. The investigation and resulting evidence comes after a complaint which was brought forward in 2017 against …
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Changing the Traditional Automotive Industry- Introducing Arrival
Climate Change, Energy & Pollution Video
Arrival is a UK-based automotive company that is changing the way vehicles are made and challenges traditional assembly line-based manufacturing. Arrival’s key concept is the use of microfactories to manufacture electric vehicles; these microfactories are small, quick to construct, and enable modular-based construction of specially designed vehicles. Traditional assembly-line construction …
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Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?
Climate Change, Energy & Pollution
A study shows how economic inequalities result in significant differences in the amount of pollution high earners and low earners are exposed to. @nytimes #Pollution #Inequality Economic inequalities have a direct impact on the amount of pollution people are exposed to. High-earning individuals and families have greater access to pollution …
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Could Plastic-Eating Bacteria Save The Planet?- Bloomberg Quicktake
Climate Change, Energy & Pollution Video
From our food to our oceans, plastic is everywhere and global plastic production continues to increase. The adoption of plastic and its rise to dominance in the world was far from surprising, it is a cheap, adaptable, and miracle material after all. However, years of production have created garbage heaps, …
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Green Hydrogen is hydrogen that is produced using only renewable resources, it is thought to be a saviour in decarbonizing a wide range of sectors such as the steel, chemical and transportation industries. However, due to its reactiveness hydrogen is not found freely on earth, instead it must first be …
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This sustainable neighborhood of the future is designed to manage both climate change and pandemics
Climate Change, Energy & Pollution
Southwest of Beijing, the Government of China is aiming to create a city that is able to support five million people. To achieve the goals identified, the development would consist of apartments with balconies for gardening, greenhouses, and the housing units would be built out of wood. By using wood …
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