"The small green 'KubeKo' box was dreamt up by chemical engineer Noel N'guessan to make use of the 30 million tonnes of waste generated by crop production in the West African country each year and other biowaste like animal dung."
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This Company Is Pioneering Self-Cycled Phone Cases
Pivet, an innovative startup founded by Michael Pratt, is disrupting the consumer electronics industry with biodegradable plastic phone cases that basically recycle themselves.
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Meet the next generation of carbon campuses
"From Net Zero Teesside in the United Kingdom to Houston’s Carbon Capture Hub, a new generation of carbon campuses — where carbon dioxide emissions are captured, used in products and stored underground — is coming online."
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Tesla Energy Ventures Will Provide Retail Electric Services In Texas
"This isn’t the first Tesla subsidiary that is in Texas. Gambit Energy Storage previously announced its construction of 100-megawatt batteries in Houston. Its purpose is to supplement the Southeast Texas grid with large amounts of power if another blackout occurs. Gambit Energy Storage also sells solar panels and batteries."
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Could Blockchain And AI Help Prevent Deforestation?
"It would be impossible to physically police the world’s forests, which are vital to the planet’s wellbeing. If applications like blockchain and AI can help, and in some cases prevent further damage from being done then that is no bad thing. As ironic as it sounds, the future of the world’s eco-system is in technology’s hands."
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Using ocean plastic waste to power ocean cleanup ships
"A team of researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Harvard University believes that the plastic amassing in floating islands in the oceans could be used to power the ships that are sent to clean them up. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes how ocean plastics could be converted to ship fuel."
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U.S. Air Force Base To Be First To Deploy New Nuclear ‘Microreactor’ – Soon Every Town Could Have One
"Microreactors offer a range of benefits attractive to military bases. Chiefly, they remove reliance on the grid, which is 'vulnerable to prolonged outage due to a variety of threats' and can provide both the electricity and heat that bases need. Moreover, the US DoD sees its needs for electricity growing as it requires power to desalinate water, produce hydrogen and support increasing data processing as well as to power robots and directed-energy weapons such as lasers."
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In Iceland, CO2 sucked from the air is turned to rock
"By pulling CO2 from ambient air, the plant is different from more traditional types of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects at highly-polluting industrial smokestacks."
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This Tree-Tracking Startup Is the Most Innovative of Its Kind
Companies looking to offset their carbon footprint can purchase carbon credits directly from Pachama’s marketplace. Organizations can choose from a list of high-impact, curated projects that have been pre-selected to meet international standards for carbon removal. Once chosen, projects are actively monitored using the company’s remote sensing technology.
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Biomass Pellets Offer a Carbon-Neutral Alternative to Coal
"Arbaflame’s facility in Grasmo, outside of Oslo, Norway (Figure 1), will produce 70,000 tonnes of “bio-coal” pellets per year. These are made of wood biomass and can be used as fuel in place of coal in power plants."
