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New technology and better strategy could cut server farm emissions by 88%
2013-08-21 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: With a population of 3,048, Yerington, Nevada, may not strike most people as very important: the town's foremost claim to fame is that several Japanese fire balloons landed there during the second world war. But that's about to change: Yerington is home to a vast new solar farm owned by Apple. "The project will not only supply renewable energy for our data centre [in nearby Reno] but also provide clean energy to the local power grid, through a first-of-its-kind partnership with NV Energy. When...
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Global Warming: Carbon Emissions Sure to Prompt Rise of Sea Levels to Three Feet by 2100
2013-08-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: Unless the governments of the world find immediate solutions to curb their respective fossil fuel consumptions and carbon emissions, the global populace might as well retire to an impending plausible scenario of rising sea levels by year 2100 to as much as three feet high. A draft report by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) highly noted that such activities are highly controllable or avoidable because these are results of human decisions. "It is extremely likely that...
EPA Prepares to Update 'Outdated' Emissions Exemption for Power Plants
2013-08-20 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is preparing to update its 20-year-old toxic emissions standards for oil refineries as well as finalize new regulations by Dec. 2014 after a wave of public outcry has focused attention on little-known exemptions having to do with limiting emissions when power plants are shutting down, starting up or malfunctioning. Such emissions had previously been deemed outside of normal operations, and thus subject to exceptions. However, according to The Hill, the...
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Viable exhaust-driven on-board ethanol reforming for improvements in fuel economy and emissions
2013-08-20 17:30:18| Green Car Congress
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08.21.13 -- Remote Methane Leak Detector Impacts Fugitive Greenhouse Gas Emissions Detection
2013-08-20 03:27:23| pollutiononline News Articles
08/21/13 Pollution Online Newsletter
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