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Energy innovation could heat 150 UK swimming pools after £200m investment
Octopus Energy invests in scheme which recycles heat from computer data processing centres
Up to 150 public swimming pools in the UK could be offered an innovative way to cut their energy bills by recycling heat from computer data processing centres after a £200m investment by Octopus Energy into a green tech firm.
Tech startup Deep Green has already piloted using energy from processing centres to heat swimming pools, with the concept trialled last year in Exmouth, Devon.
Continue reading...Solar banks and efficiency upgrades promise to address energy inequality
Federal and New South Wales governments tip $206m into energy upgrades for social housing, and launch Solar Banks scheme for homes unable to access solar.
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ArcelorMittal and France to invest €1.8 bln to cut steel emissions
Weather tracker: first red cyclone warning for Réunion since 1989
Cyclone Belal is expected to remain a strong storm through the coming week
Active weather is expected to affect northern Australia and parts of the Mascarene Islands in the south Indian Ocean this week, with the monsoon trough a triggering factor in both cases.
The monsoon trough is an area of the Intertropical Convergence Zone that interacts with the larger scale monsoon circulation. This trough is marked by an area of relative minima in sea level pressure, as well as a local maximum of vorticity (a measure of the spin of the atmosphere).
Continue reading...Korean power company to promote boiler project in Vietnam
New two-step catalytic process can create useful product from CO2 -study
Japanese shipping major to conduct ocean thermal study in Mauritius under JCM
‘Smart’ trap trial raises hopes American mink can be driven from UK
Conservation groups target ‘impossible dream' of eradicating invasive predators after success of East Anglia trial
American mink – the mustelids escaped from fur farms who have decimated populations of water voles and other native birds, fish and amphibians – have been eradicated from a swath of East Anglia.
Until now, mink have never been successfully removed from any large area of Britain but the success of a trial using drops from the invasive predator’s pungent anal scent gland to lure animals into hundreds of traps raises hopes that the species can be eradicated from the whole country.
Continue reading...Australian industry associations, companies, unsupportive of climate policy despite headline messaging, analysis finds
Australian gas company set to restart LNG, CCS work after court win
Why Europe’s farmers are protesting – and the far right is taking note
For some farmers already struggling, paying for more of their pollution is a step too far. Germany is the latest country to see anger boil over
The columns of tractors that have blocked roads in Germany, causing chaos in cities and headaches for commuters, are the latest wave in a growing tide of anger against efforts to protect Europe’s nature from the pollution pumped out by its farms.
In recent years, farmers in western Europe have fought with increasing ferocity against policies to protect the planet that they say cost too much. In the Netherlands, where the backlash has been strongest, a court ruling on nitrogen emissions in 2019 triggered furious and recurring protests over government efforts to close farms and cut the number of animals on them. In Belgium, similar fights led to convoys of tractors clogging the EU quarter of Brussels in March last year. In Ireland, which has seen smaller protests, dairy farmers angry at nitrogen restrictions marched with their cows to the offices of three government ministers last month.
Continue reading...Fossil tax tweak promises to squeeze more money from gas super profits
Federal treasurer Jim Chalmers says proposed changes to the PRRT will mean the offshore gas industry "pays more tax sooner."
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Aiming for 1.5C could save the EU at least €1 trillion by 2030, says report
Is Flotation out of the race? Offshore wind rumours swirl as Gippsland decision looms
As reports emerge that Flotation Energy's 1.5GW proposal has been rejected, we look at what we do and don't know about the projects that will make up Australia's first offshore wind zone.
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Court rejects solar farm for wrecking a town’s view, poor consultation
NSW court rules the solar project didn't take into account its impact on the landscape's character and fell short on community consultation.
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Pothole reports hit a five-year high in 2023
NZ govt coalition party publishes draft offshore mitigation bill
Enel tapped to build giga-scale solar and wind project on Queensland’s Copperstring line
Vanadium miner taps Enel Green Power to develop 1GW of renewables to power a major new project in Queensland's North West Minerals Province.
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