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...a “targeted exercise” to understand how much drinking water the 24-hour facilities — which generate huge amounts of heat — use to cool their servers, given the scale and demand of the sites around the capital...
...Most snow cannons can only work in temperatures around freezing or below, but Italian company TechnoAlpin now makes the “SnowFactory” with inbuilt refrigeration so that snow can be produced in temperatures...
...Back then, the lack of refrigeration gave rise to techniques for preserving fish caught in Tokyo Bay, or Edo-mae — “in front of Edo”....
...They are widely used in refrigeration, heat pumps and mobile air conditioning units to stop electrical equipment from heating up — but they are greenhouse gases....
...Fort created a methodology for advanced refrigeration systems, focused on cutting emissions....
...The shift of capital is not only driven by ethics....
...The world has woken up to the fact you can’t separate environmental, social [and] economic success — these things are integrated — and investors are awakening to that with this massive inflow of capital...
...“It’s not like you’ve capital-starved [the] people making steel and gasoline.”...
...Controlled with a smartphone app, it’s capable of heating or cooling the wearer via the Peltier effect, a thermodynamic principle widely used in refrigeration”....
...“At UTC, this has led to a well-documented history of poor management execution . . . as well as market share losses and underinvestment in key business areas.”...
...The Imperial College research hub does not involve new capital investment in the UK, and will instead work with overseas manufacturing partners. The hub will be focused on two research areas....
...The average size of the hole has shrunk by 4m sq km (equivalent to the land area of India) since 2000....
...The heatwave has drawn attention to acute shortages of electricity needed for air-conditioners, fans and refrigeration....
...Water from the Nimy-Blaton canal is used in an advanced cooling system to keep the computers running without refrigeration....
...It is these founder’s profits, she says, which end up circulating through the system creating capital gain-like profit as they are passed from one area to the next....
...The companies in his existing fund’s investment universe generate a third of their turnover in the developing world, an area he is keen to tap further....
...“We have the ability to put capital to work [in the sector] because we have the Rabo network behind us,” said Mr Munsters. “There is a huge demand for capital....
...Most of the credits were from projects to destroy industrial gases, a controversial area as the United Nations has come under increasing pressure to change the way these credits are awarded....
...“We need to look after our farmers because they bring us conservation benefits in rural areas,” he says....
...In addition, infrastructure improvements – such as roads and railways, and storage and refrigeration centres – are also needed. Meanwhile, a large proportion of the global population remains hungry....
...• full exemption from customs duty to refrigeration units required for the manufacture of refrigerated vans or trucks. 149....
...In 2007 when the school decided to make climate change an area of specialisation, it worked closely with the university’s internationally recognised school of geoscience....
...He said those funds must be spent on areas that are of fundamental benefit to society....
...A large blue-panelled structure, among several new office blocks, stands over a cluster of dusty dhows in the Al Bateen area on the southern tip of Abu Dhabi island....
...Our learning outcome assessments show a very high level of responses when it comes to social capital and relationships within the cohort....
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