Carbon neutral ecosystem

Automotive OEMs are rolling out EVs at an accelerated pace. This trend is paving the road for a robust electrification ecosystem that will be greatly benefitted by increased collaborations and partnerships. At the heart of this ecosystem is the battery and it holds the key to making EVs affordable, practical, and truly sustainable. Recently, ADI joined key stakeholders from the Global Battery Alliance and National Grid to discuss the challenges being faced by the electrification ecosystem. They discussed solutions and opportunities that will create a sustainable value chain across the ecosystem—from battery manufacturers, technology suppliers and utility providers, to OEMs and end consumers. Learn more about the electrification ecosystem’s role in fostering a robust circular economy and battery lifecycle, and the future of sustainable electrification innovation. Featured Participants: • Roger Atkins, Electric Vehicles Outlook Ltd. (Moderator) • Gina Aquilano, Technology Director of Automotive Business Unit, Analog Devices • Guy Ethier, Chair of the Board of Directors, Global Battery Alliance • Jake Navarro, Director of Clean Transportation, National Grid Featured Video Segments: • • • • • • • ADI’s Gina Aquilano outlines the core benefits of ADI’s innovative wireless BMS solution; from the ability to rapidly scale EV fleets, to the creation of a platform for contactless data collection used for battery state of health and a more seamless transition of batteries into second...

EcoFlow’s proprietary bi-directional inverter system, X-stream, allows for efficient electric power conversion between direct current and alternating current. Credit: EcoFlow The global push for carbon neutrality has spurred the development of clean energy solutions, but most innovations to cut emissions have focused on making changes at the industry level. EcoFlow, founded in 2017 and based in Shenzhen, has been developing environmentally friendly and convenient power appliances for household use, featuring a renewable energy ecosystem and fast-charging battery technology. “Progression towards carbon neutrality requires both top-down and bottom-up approaches, and we see significant market potential in filling the need for green-power storage products on the consumer front,” says Lei Wang, EcoFlow co-founder and CEO. A BloombergNEF report from 2021 estimated that there will be 20 times more global energy storage installations in place by the end of 2030, with about 25% located at homes and businesses. The demand, as Wang sees it, is driven by people seeking next-generation power for homes and businesses. Growing cases of massive power outages caused by natural disasters or grid production limitations are only adding to that need. Consumer-level innovations EcoFlow was among the first companies to start designing renewable energy systems, mainly portable power stations for the consumer setting — a big market, considering household consumption is estimated to contribute 60% ...

• Cement, a key ingredient in • Adding in this biogenic limestone can make concrete • By growing calcium carbonate through We make more concrete than any other material on the planet. A group of engineers across the country want to turn that production process—which accounts for over 7 percent of the world’s annual The team, led by engineers at the University of Colorado, University of North Carolina Wilmington, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, has shown it can manufacture biogenic limestone-based Portland cement without the need to 🌍 You love our weird world. So do we. “For the industry, now is the time to solve this very wicked problem,” Wil Srubar, an associate professor at the University of Colorado and the lead researcher on the project, says in a Concrete is everywhere on Earth. To make this key building material, you mix water with Portland cement and create a paste that includes Dive Deeper ⬇️ • The Rock Solid History of Concrete Concocting a Portland cement mixture that doesn’t need extracted limestone led the research team to biologically grow limestone, a natural process that some species of calcareous microalgae complete through photosynthesis. Think: coral reef formation. The scientists call it a net carbon-neutral way to make Portland cement, as the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere equals what the microalgae already captured. The concept of growing limestone came to Srubar while snorkeling in Thailand in 2017. He saw the calcium carbon...

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• Perspective • • 21 March 2023 Integrating terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to constrain estimates of land-atmosphere carbon exchange • ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4708-9332 • ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7383-889X • • ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-3520-7426 • • ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1516-9728 • ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-6835-8832 • ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4537-9563 • ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-3011-7934 • ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-5730-0694 • ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0177-6428 • ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-2037-8097 • ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-8251-4659 • ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-1274-363X • • ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0708-1336 • … • ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-1866-8159 Show authors Nature Communications volume 14, Article number: 1571 ( 2023) In this Perspective, we put forward an integrative framework to improve estimates of land-atmosphere carbon exchange based on the accumulation of carbon in the landscape as constrained by its lateral export through rivers. The framework uses the watershed as the fundamental spatial unit and integrates all terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems as well as their hydrologic carbon exchanges. Application of the framework should help bridge the existing gap between land and atmosphere-based approaches and offers a platform to increase communication and synergy among the terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric research communities that is paramount to advance landscape carbon budget assessments. Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2) an...