♻️ Green Tech
📝 New framework can improve climate policies
The desire to become carbon neutral continues to grow worldwide; among other things, China, which accounts for about 30 percent of the world's emissions, has set itself the goal of becoming carbon dioxide-neutral by 2060. However, the road there is not entirely...
🌳 CTrees: A platform that calculates the carbon in every tree on Earth
A new startup of NASA scientists has designed a platform called CTrees which uses artificial intelligence to track exactly how much carbon the earth’s three trillion trees are storing. This can help scientists figure out to what extent trees are helping our...
⚡ Cryptocurrency reduces its energy consumption by over 99 percent
The Ethereum blockchain has implemented a change that requires 99.95 percent less energy to produce new ETH, as its cryptocurrency is called. This means that the total energy consumption to produce new ETH is now 0.01 TWh per year. Before the change, ETH's energy...
🔋 Rechargeable and degradable battery – made of crab shell and zinc
According to a new study published via cell.com, a new type of battery may be on the way, solving one of the big questions that has plagued the renewable sector – the impact of batteries on the environment. According to the study, lithium batteries, which have a...
