Category: carbon emissions

Google says it offset all of the emissions it has ever generated

Post author By Randall
Post date September 14, 2020
Categories In carbon emissions, carbon legacy, carbon neutral, Climate, Climate Change, data centers, emissions, Google, greenhouse gasses, manufacturing, News, offset, operations, renewable, renewable energy, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] “This is far more challenging than the traditional approach of matching energy usage with renewable energy,” Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a blog post. As of today, Google is the 1st major company to eliminate our entire carbon legacy, including before we became carbon neutral in 2007. We’re also proud that […]

Microsoft used hydrogen fuel cells to power a data center for two days straight

Post author By Randall
Post date July 27, 2020
Categories In carbon emissions, Climate Change, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel, Microsoft, News, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] The idea to explore hydrogen fuel cells originated in 2018, when researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO used a proton exchange membrane (PEM) hydrogen fuel cell to power a rack of computers. Mark Monroe, a principal infrastructure engineer on Microsoft’s team for datacenter advanced development, said his team watched a […]

Microsoft plans to be ‘carbon negative’ by 2030

Post author By Randall
Post date January 16, 2020
Categories In carbon, carbon emissions, Climate Change, emissions, green, greenhouse gas, Microsoft, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] In addition to its plans to be carbon negative by 2030, Microsoft also says it’ll remove from the environment all of the carbon the company has either emitted directly or produced through electrical use since it was founded in 1975. That’s a pretty massive undertaking, and Microsoft notes that actually making that progress will […]

Google pledges to ‘maximize’ recycled material in own products

Post author By Randall
Post date August 5, 2019
Categories In business, carbon emissions, carbon neutral, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, Google, Google Home, google home mini, green, hardware, made by google, Nest, pixel, plastic, plastic bottles, recycled, recycled materials, shipping, sustainability, sustainable, Tech

[ad_1] These add to Google’s existing sustainability efforts. From 2017 to 2018, it cut its product shipment carbon emissions by 40 percent. Its Power Project will provide one million energy-saving Nest thermostats to families in need by 2023, and many Nest products are already made with post-consumer recycled plastic. Switching to recycled content isn’t always […]

Bipartisan highway bill proposes $1 billion for EV charging corridors

Post author By Randall
Post date July 29, 2019
Categories In ben cardin, bill, carbon emissions, Climate, Climate Change, emissions, ev, ev charger, ev charging, funding, gear, global warming, green, highway, infrastructure, john barrasso, legislation, Politics, shelley moore capito, Tech, tom carper, tomorrow, Transportation, transportation infrastructure act of 2019

[ad_1] The bill includes $3 billion to support projects that lower highway-related carbon emissions, and states could be given greater flexibility if they meet emissions planning requirements. States can compete for $500 million in additional funding by making progress on reducing per capita emissions, and they can compete for $1 billion to build hydrogen, natural […]