Several of the world?s largest banks are in the process of investing around $50 million to create a digital cash system using blockchain technology to settle financial transactions. They aim to develop a system to make clearing and settlement in financial markets more efficient. The new system called Finality could launch in 2020. Blockchain, which first emerged as the software underpinning the cryptocurrency bitcoin, is a shared ledger of transactions maintained by a network of computers.
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Green Eco Technologies began in the UK in 2016, but later moved to Australia and has been manufacturing here since July 2021.GET removes about 80 per cent of the volume from organic waste using heat of 50 to 60 degrees Celsius, air, and a “Mixed Ion Reactive Approach”. Radicalised oxygen molecules kill off microbes to remove pungent smells, breaking down organics at the cell level to turn them into a kind of nutrient and calorie-rich compost. This can then be diluted as a soil improver or fed into an anaerobic digestor to make biogas. https://www.aumanufacturing.com.au/saving-through-smarter-energy-use-the-melbourne-company-taking-the-stink-out-of-waste-to-energy
