Headline News:
- Old smartphones can give us new opportunities. “There are around one billion idle smartphones in America,” the head of a startup business says. “They’re just sitting in drawers at the moment destined for landfill. Yet they’ve got a GPS, two cameras, a microphone, a processor and five or six other useful sensors.” [The Guardian]
Manything turns old smartphones into video monitoring devices. Photograph: Manything
- Leading climate scientists have warned that the Earth is perilously close to breaking through a 1.5° C upper limit for global warming, only eight months after the target was set. The decision to try to limit warming to 1.5° C, compared to pre-industrial temperatures, was made at the Paris climate negotiations last December. [The Guardian]
- A 1.2-GW offshore wind farm has been approved for the water off Yorkshire coast, England. Offshore wind developer Dong Energy said a final decision had been made to construct the 1.2-GW Hornsea Project One scheme off the coast of Yorkshire in northern England. The project will create 300 permanent jobs. [Seeker]
- On the anniversary of finalizing the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, a report said implementing that plan could save businesses billions of dollars a year. Commercial customers are responsible for nearly a third of all electricity-related carbon pollution nationwide, and they could see significant savings under the plan. [Orange Leader]
- A California project would have 100 turbines on platforms tethered to ocean floor floating 33 miles off the coast. Trident Winds, a Seattle-based company, plans to place the turbines off the coast of Morro Bay. The turbines would be affixed to floating platforms, which would be tethered to the sea floor using cables. [Seeker]
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from Green Energy Times http://www.greenenergytimes.net/2016/08/07/august-7-green-energy-news-4/
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