Manufacturing – Page 21

DHL Opens First Electric Vehicle Center of Excellence in Continental Europe

June 1, 2024 admin clean transport, dhl, electric cars, Electric vehicles, GERMANY, green economy, green jobs, investment, Manufacturing, press releases

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 01:35:55 +0000

In collaboration with the Team EV of DHL Customer Solutions & Innovation, the center leverages the combined warehousing and freight management of DHL Global Forwarding, including both ocean and air freight capabilities. Based near Milan in Italy, the Electric Vehicle (EV) Center of Excellence supports the electrification of mobility and … [continued]

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Epoxy Concrete Won’t Solve Cement Emissions Problem

June 1, 2024 admin building, buildings, carbon emissions, cement, cement emissions, climate change, concrete, Construction, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, investment, Manufacturing, Oil

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 18:09:01 +0000

As I’ve been looking at solutions that people are proposing for eliminating cement’s high carbon dioxide emissions, a set of criteria are clearly emerging to assess whether they are going to be material. These include the source material availability, cost, and distribution. They include integration into worksites. They include the … [continued]

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US Floating Offshore Wind Industry To Tackle Maine

May 31, 2024 admin bureau of ocean energy management (boem), clean power, floating, floating offshore wind energy, green economy, green jobs, investment, maine, Manufacturing, offshore wind energy, university of maine, us department of energy (doe), wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 15:16:24 +0000

The rough-and-tumble coast of Maine is about to get a renewable energy makeover with an assist from new floating offshore wind technology.

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Calcined Clays Are Not A Cement Decarbonization Slam Dunk

May 30, 2024 admin buildings, carbon emissions, cement, cement emissions, China, climate change, decarbonization, Europe, green economy, green jobs, India, investment, Manufacturing, policy & politics, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 21:25:06 +0000

Cement is the gray glue that holds our modern cities and infrastructure together. We use about 4.1 billion tons of it a year, and every ton has a carbon debt of about a ton of carbon dioxide. That’s about 10% of our global emissions, so it’s a big problem. From … [continued]

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Data On Battery Swapping For Heavy & Light Vehicles Is Nuanced

May 30, 2024 admin batteries, Battery, battery swapping, China, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, Europe, ev batteries, ev battery, ev battery charging, ev charging, ev charging stations, green economy, India, investment, Manufacturing, Shipping

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 02:50:45 +0000

A few days ago I published a reaction to a set of reactions to an article on the plummeting cost of batteries and how they enable megawatt scale charging. What were the reactions about? Battery swapping, which many people seem to think is the bees knees and should be everywhere. … [continued]

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3M Knew Its Fluorochemicals Were Toxic Decades Ago & Likely To Cause Cancer

May 29, 2024 admin 3m, contamination, HEALTH, Manufacturing, policy & politics, toxic chemicals

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 18:13:58 +0000

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. It recently released a 8,000 word exposé on how 3M knew that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. The information in the article is too important to overlook, so here are its highlights. In 1997, Jim Johnson gave a 3M … [continued]

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Levers To Reduce Cement’s Use, Along With China’s Slowing Demand, Are A Good News Story

May 29, 2024 admin buildings, carbon dioxide emissions, cement, China, clean transport, climate change, concrete, green economy, green jobs, investment, Manufacturing, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 16:10:04 +0000

Cement has reared its gray and flaking head into my attention again recently. The global use of about 4.1 billion tons of the stuff to make perhaps 40 billion tons of concrete is responsible for around 10% of all carbon dioxide emissions globally. It’s one of the few industrial products … [continued]

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The Significance Of The US-Kenya Climate & Clean Energy Industrial Partnership

May 29, 2024 admin africa, basigo, clean power, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy, geothermal energy, green economy, green jobs, investment, Kenya, Manufacturing, president biden, roam, State Department, us agency for international development (usaid), usa, white house

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 15:41:57 +0000

The US and Kenya level up their strategic relationship with a slate of new clean energy programs for sustainability and national security.

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Publishing On Cement Decarbonization Brings Challenges, Corrections And More Approaches

May 28, 2024 admin buildings, Carbon Capture, carbon emissions, cement, cement emissions, climate change, co2 emissions, Coal, Europe, Fossil Fuels, green economy, investment, Manufacturing, natural gas, Oil, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 02:25:59 +0000

A few days ago I went deep on cement again, using an assessment of the processes of American clean cement startups Sublime Systems and Brimstone to define the scope and magnitude of the problem, the chemistry and energy requirements of cement, why fixing it is critically important, and incidentally evaluate … [continued]

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Biden’s 100% China EV Tariff Fails History 101

May 28, 2024 admin carbon emissions, China, clean transport, climate change, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev batteries, ev sales, green economy, green jobs, hybrid electric cars, investment, Manufacturing, phev, policy & politics, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 13:56:57 +0000

Perhaps Biden has forgotten the last time America’s land yachts, marketed to the most affluent, became impossibly expensive symbols of conspicuous consumption. It was the same year he entered Congress after all, 52 years ago. But America and its car companies have indeed faced almost exactly the same situation as … [continued]

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