Mar 9, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Climate
A recent paper by MIT researchers predicts that by 2050, the energy consumption and emissions of autonomous vehicles (AVs) will be comparable to that of data centers today, which is 1 percent of global energy consumption and 0.3 percent of global emissions. In order...
Mar 9, 2023 | Climate, Robots
A family of entrepreneurs teamed up with several other family dairy farmers to gain support from legislators and find investors interested in helping to fund the innovative transition they had in mind. With the groundwork laid, in 2013, the family installed a facility...
Mar 1, 2023 | Climate, Oceanography
The world’s oceans and the multiple threats they face, from climate change and pollution to overfishing and mining, will be the focus of a global conference in Panama this week. Some 600 leaders of government, the business sector, green groups and academics will...
Feb 9, 2023 | Climate, Featured, Space
The longest-reigning monarch in France’s history, Louis XIV, earned the sobriquet le Roi Soleil or “the Sun King” because of, surprisingly, his love for ballet. It had nothing to do with the star at the center of our solar system. But...
Jan 19, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Climate, Environment
A global fleet of about a billion autonomous vehicles, each driving just for one hour per day, may generate about the same amount of carbon emissions as data centres currently do, according to a new study. The research, published recently in IEEE Micro, modelled the...
Dec 1, 2022 | Climate, Oceanography, Technology
Throughout history, we have relied on our oceans for food, jobs, recreation, and even the air we breathe. But this relationship has been one-sided for centuries, as we have taken resources from our oceans with no regard for their natural limits Blue Tech is the...
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