HumanNature
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
On the other end of the electric grid, advanced technologies can help reduce the amount of energy that is required for basic services like lighting, heating, and cooling. The average electricity consumption per household in the US in 2009 was 11,320 kWh per year [3]. Eia.gov 2009. [4] References: [1] U.S. Today in Energy.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
A number of initiatives contributed to reaching the goal, including strategies that involved students, faculty, and staff-- -- Energy efficiency retrofits including boilers, chillers, lighting, and water fixtures -- Behavior changes like Building Automation System scheduling and management, an annual student Energy Challenge, strategically optimizing (..)
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Frontiers
JANUARY 31, 2023
Telomere Power: How to live longer and heathier, written by Elizabeth Blackburn , awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009. Join a Nobel-winning journey to discover how a normal fluid is cooled down and becomes a superfluid – and the cool things it can then do! Defying Gravity?
Real Climate
APRIL 2, 2021
2009 ), a quiescent period of volcanic eruptions ( Mann et al. This would have a cooling effect on Atlantic SST, as well as a stabilizing effect on the regional atmosphere ( Dunion and Velden 2004 ), and would be expected to reduce tropical storm formation frequency for some (possibly prolonged) period. 778-781, 2009.
Ocean Conservancy
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
This past summer was relatively cool and stormy, which limited the loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic. Since 2007, only 2009, 2013 and 2014 had more ice at the end of the melt season. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. That’s equivalent to the combined size of Texas, California and Montana.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
C, stated at the 2009 COP in Copenhagen and adopted one year later – which was also a non-binding goal – would leave many of them inundated by sea level rise. But it’s a political target that’s based on a reasonable assessment of science that suggests that harms from climate change are likely to get worse faster after passing 1.5
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
The IRA and current state policies recognize this fact by including incentives for consumers and businesses to purchase electric vehicles and replace inefficient gas, oil, and propane boilers, furnaces, and water heaters with highly efficient electric heat pumps, which also provide cooling in the summer.
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