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Responsible Battery Coalition Applauds University of Michigan Research on Lithium-Ion Battery Degradation Calls Research “Important Step” in Educating Consumers About Extending Battery Life

February 18, 2020 admin Acer, apple, asus, batteries, cars, clean transport, consumer technology, dell, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, google, hp, htc, Huawei, lenovo, lg, lithium-ion batteries, microsoft, motorola, nokia, press releases, research, responsible battery coalition, Samsung, SCIENCE, Sony, toshiba, u-m center for sustainable systems, u-m school for environment and sustainability, university of michigan, zte

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 19:22:54 +0000

The Responsible Battery Coalition (RBC) — a leading coalition of companies, academics and organizations dedicated to the responsible management and environmental sustainability of batteries — applauded research published today by the University of Michigan (U-M) in the Journal of Energy Storage on best practices for consumers for extending the life of lithium-ion batteries, as well as the cost savings associated with minimizing degradation

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Big Tech Has Entered The Oil Business

January 20, 2020 admin Amazon, big tech, bp oil spill, climate change, consumer technology, Fossil Fuels, google, microsoft, natural gas, Oil, tesla

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 05:10:41 +0000

Big tech has entered the oil business. Well, not all of big tech, because we do have Tesla out there trying to decrease our dependence on fossil fuels. Companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, however, are a bit different. They are talking the talk, but when it comes to the oil and gas industry, they are eager to work with companies to find easier ways to extract oil

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The 2 Big Questions Regarding Volkswagen’s Future

January 9, 2020 admin argo, Audi, autonomous vehicles, cars, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ford, GERMANY, green economy, investment, Manufacturing, microsoft, moia, northvolt, osborne effect, porsche, quantumscape, seat, skoda, tesla, Volkswagen, volkswagen autonomy, volkswagen group, volkswagen id, volkswagen id crozz, volkswagen id.3, volkswagen id.4, volkswagen software, vw.os

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:00:13 +0000

Volkswagen is launching into what could be a huge electric decade that reinvents and rejuvenates the large global automotive group. Yes, the Volkswagen ID.3 — which is sort of supposed to be the VW Beetle or Golf of this century — has some delays. Reinvention can be tough

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Silicon Valley Owes Us $100 Billion in Taxes (At Least)

December 3, 2019 admin Amazon, apple, big tech, Facebook, google, microsoft, NETFLIX, shell companies, Silicon Valley, tax avoidance, tax havens

Credit to Author: Edward Ongweso Jr| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 18:59:51 +0000

Over the past decade, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Netflix, Apple, and Google have been at the cutting edge of corporate tax avoidance.

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No, Machine Learning Does Not Have A Huge Carbon Debt

November 30, 2019 admin Amazon, aws, azure, California, clean power, climate change, elon musk, Fossil Fuels, gcp, google, green economy, investment, machine learning, microsoft, neural nets, policy & politics, research, SCIENCE, tesla, Uncategorized

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 00:10:16 +0000

The increase in CPU cycles to advance machine learning has been accompanied by advances in efficiencies of computer technology and lower carbon electricity, but it’s worth paying attention to. It’s only going to increase.

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Amazon Says It Didn’t Get a $10 Billion Contract Because Trump Hates Bezos

November 15, 2019 admin Amazon, aws, azure, Cloud computing, jedi, microsoft, Pentagon

Credit to Author: Edward Ongweso Jr| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 17:48:41 +0000

After ignoring endless internal and external protests, Amazon is now launching one over the Pentagon awarding the JEDI contract to Microsoft.

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Heat (The Elephant In The Room)

October 30, 2019 admin Amazon, buildings, clean power, climate change, co2 emissions, data centers, dublin ireland, energy efficiency, Europe, Facebook, Fossil Fuels, google, grid, heating emissions, home energy management, home heating, microsoft, policy & politics, research, SCIENCE, United States

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 01:53:44 +0000

I came across a very interesting statistic the other day from the IEA’s Renewables 2018 report. The statistic is that 50% of total energy consumption globally is used for the production of heat for our homes, industry, and other applications

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Internal Email Shows GitHub Plans to Renew ICE Contract

October 9, 2019 admin activism, Border Protection, Chef, customs border protection, github, government, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, microsoft, power

Credit to Author: Joseph Cox| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 14:40:36 +0000

Even though GitHub leadership and others oppose ICE’s child separation policy, an internal email suggests GitHub won’t stop ICE from renewing a contract with the tech company.

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ENGIE, Microsoft Seal Innovative ‘Firm Power’ PPA for 230 MW Wind and Solar in Texas

September 26, 2019 admin Business, connected plant, engie, firm power, iiot, iiot power, International, Markets, microsoft, news, ppa, Renewables, renewables procurement, Solar, Technology, texas, vfa, Wind

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:03:14 +0000

The post ENGIE, Microsoft Seal Innovative ‘Firm Power’ PPA for 230 MW Wind and Solar in Texas appeared first on POWER Magazine.

ENGIE, the world’s largest independent power producer, has signed an innovative volume firming agreement (VMA) with Microsoft that will allow the technology giant to buy “firm” power from wind and solar projects in Texas under a specially structured power purchase agreement (PPA). The companies on Sept. 24 said the long-term PPA will allow Microsoft to […]

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Corporations & Renewables: Taking The Bull By The Horns

September 26, 2019 admin apple, clean power, corporate renewables, google, greenpeace, microsoft, ppas, Solar energy, thenergy, thomas hillig, wind energy

Credit to Author: The Beam| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 08:00:58 +0000

Commitment to sustainability has required untiring efforts from corporates. The race does not stop at 100% renewables. For taking up the sustainability reins, an attack is the best form of defense. At the beginning of this process, pragmatism was important. Corporate renewable energy pioneers were mainly focusing on standard corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs) and guarantees of origin (GOs). Now, sustainability leaders mainly focus on three areas: Location, supply chain, and synchronization of consumption and renewable energy supply