Power to go in the test: What power stations have to do
Mobile energy sources Power to go in the test: What power stations have to do Maybe camping with a fan, cool box and fairy lights next time? And the notebook can also be charged? A perfect scenario for a power station. Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa-tmn For the cool box at the quarry […]
IEA sounds the alarm: CO2 emissions at record levels
To achieve climate and energy targets, increased measures are needed to switch to clean energies. It is true that the global energy crisis has not caused emissions to rise as feared. But energy producers continue to blow CO2 into the atmosphere at a high level. The International Energy Agency (IEA) […]
Light: Energy consumption for public lighting drops massively
Good Green News – or I guess you could call it the LED effect: Thanks to the use of LED lights and other energy-saving measures for traffic lights, traffic signs and street lighting, the electricity consumption of public lighting in Hamburg has fallen significantly. Since 2000, consumption has fallen by […]
Klos to Nature: Sustainable disposal of basic human needs @ Greentech.LIVE Conference
What actually happens to human waste that does not immediately end up in the sewage system? The quantities produced at events, for example, are easily forgotten, but something has to be done with it. Klos to Nature wants to offer sustainable options for this area and find solutions for how […]
Eisvogel-Award 2023: Further sustainable film productions awarded
Since last year, the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, together with the Heinz Sielmann Foundation, has been awarding a prize for particularly environmentally and climate-friendly film productions. Because yes, there is also a lot going on in the media industry to conserve resources and reduce CO2 emissions. Yesterday, the […]
PV boom in NRW: solar plants with 913 MW installed in 2022
The expansion of solar energy in NRW has again reached the record level of 2010 and 2011, according to Renewable Energies 2022. In total, systems with a capacity of 913 megawatts were installed last year, the State Association of Renewable Energies (LEE) reported this morning in Düsseldorf. According to the […]
A sustainable solution to Tanzania’s unreliable electricity supply
As the world increasingly shifts from fossil fuel power to emissions-free electrification, recycling batteries is considered a key strategy in the fight against climate change. In the new Net Zero show, Net Zero Speaks With Gibson Kawago, Climate Activist Chibeze Ezekiel interviews Kawago, the Founder and Chief Technical Officer of […]
Renaturation: Set-aside agricultural areas recover only slowly
Disused agricultural land recovers only slowly without active renaturation measures, and not completely even after decades. This was the finding of an international team, including researchers from the Center for Biodiversity Research (iDiV), the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the universities of Halle-Wittenberg and Leipzig. The team compared […]
Clicks for the climate: Plant trees by using the Ecosia search engine
Ecosia, the “search engine that plants trees.” Founded in 2009, the company is already the talk of the town. Founder Christian Kroll talks about why trees are being used to combat the climate crisis, what Ecosia is also doing for the climate, and the competition with Google in the Greentech. […]
German-Indonesian project “Solar Ice Maker
Greentech Update in a nutshell: A German-Indonesian partnership has developed a solar-powered ice maker for small-scale fishermen in Indonesia. The high-tech solution is called “Solar Ice Maker” and was developed as a rural development project to prevent food waste and enable small fishermen in disadvantaged regions to sell their products […]
Construction of an offshore converter platform and a high-voltage cable in the North Sea can begin. The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) launched the offshore grid connection projects BorWin5 and BorWin epsilon, as the office announced. The necessary planning approval decision was issued on. A planning approval decision is […]
Fancy a 100-inch laptop for your rucksack? Are you familiar with the problem that the laptop screen is always far too small? This realisation has inspired the tech company Sightful to completely remove the screen from its innovative “Spacetop” notebook. “Spacetop” notebook without a screen – but with AR is […]
A portfolio of different cell chemistries will be coming in the next few months – Mercedes is also working on solid-state batteries: The Stuttgart car manufacturer Mercedes will offer battery systems with different performance levels in its model series in the future. There will be “a range spread for battery-electric […]
Apple is miles behind the competition when it comes to AI: 2024 is getting off to a difficult start for Apple: legal disputes are affecting the iPhone manufacturer, Microsoft is overtaking it as the most valuable company in the world, and they also seem to have missed the developments in […]
Cave stalactites can be a unique archive for researching historical climate fluctuations – this has been shown by a team from KIT and Heidelberg University with other partners. The researchers analyzed the isotopic composition of oxygen in the stalactite limestone of the small Devil’s Cave in Bavaria. For example, they […]
Exciting news about ebikes from France: Peugeot Cycles has announced a range of new models for the new 2023/2024 season. Peugeots parent company Stellantis has announced in a press release that a series of new e-bikes from the Peugeot Cycles brand will be coming onto the market at the end […]
Whether solar, wind power or electromobility, climate-relevant solutions require expertise and dialogue. Norbert Krain from Baden-Württemberg presents three organisations for the technical sector at the Greentech.LIVE conference, including Engineers for Future.
Turn kitchen waste into valuable compost: With the electric composter with Autoclean and active charcoal filter from Rosenstein & Söhne, you can easily turn food waste into nutrient-rich granulate. The end product can then be easily used as fertiliser in the garden or disposed of in the organic waste bin. […]
Industries such as the construction sector involve complex processes where environmentally friendly design takes a long time. TerraNEXT wants to accelerate the transformation with an AI solution.
A better charging infrastructure is needed to drive e-mobility forward. This is where Me Energy comes in with bioethanol-powered charging stations.