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Amazon Vies for Nuclear-Powered Data Center

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When Amazon Web Services paid US $650 million in March for another data center to add to its armada, the tech giant thought it was buying a steady supply of nuclear energy to power it, too. Whether you’re talking about Google or Apple or Microsoft or any of those companies, they tend to have corporate sustainability goals.

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Baker Institute: China positioning itself to dominate world’s copper supply

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For example, every thousand battery electric vehicles (BEVs) produced can require approximately 83 metric tonnes of copper (well more than triple conventional vehicles at 23t), while wind turbines incorporate 3.6 As the Nanjing example shows, ramifications in China extend far beyond corporate balance sheets," according to the blog post.

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US DOE announces 3 consortia for $125M US-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center; solar, second-generation biofuels and buildings

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Consortia researchers will leverage their expertise and resources in solar technology, advanced biofuels, and building efficiency. MEMC Corporation; and Solarmer Energy Inc. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.; Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.; Moser Baer India Ltd.; Thermax Ltd.; and Wipro Ltd. Moser Baer India Ltd.;

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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Green software engineering is an emerging discipline consisting of best practices to build applications that reduce carbon emissions. And software engineers have tremendous influence on the actual purpose and emissions of what they build. The green software movement is fast gaining momentum. It’s not just lines of code.

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Tesla Megapacks to be deployed at Apple’s California solar farm

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In an announcement on Wednesday, tech giant Apple revealed that it is building a big battery storage project at a Northern California solar farm. The challenge with clean energy – solar and wind – is that it’s by definition intermittent.

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University of Tennessee to head $250M advanced composites manufacturing institute; Ford, Honda and Volkswagen members

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In the wind energy industry, advances in low-cost composite materials will help manufacturers build longer, lighter and stronger blades to create more energy. Dow Chemical Company; DowAksa; DuPont; ESI North America; Evonik Corporation; Faurecia US Holdings; Fives; Ford Motor Company; GE Water & Power; Graco Inc.;

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Improved energy storage technologies will allow for expanded integration of renewable energy resources like wind and photovoltaic systems and will improve frequency regulation and peak energy management. NSTAR Electric & Gas Corporation (MA). New York State Electric & Gas Corporation. 29,561,142. 125,006,103. 25,000,000.