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How Are Solar Panels Made?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Solar panels generated almost 4 percent of electricity in the US in 2021, up from less than 1 percent in 2015. You’re left with 99% pure silicon and carbon monoxide (that’s from the carbon we added, bonded to the oxygen we removed from the silicon dioxide).

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Mystery of comet 67P’s abundant oxygen is solved

Physics World

In 2015, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft made a shocking discovery, detecting a large amount of molecular oxygen in the coma of gas surrounding the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Now, however, a new analysis of the Rosetta data suggests that the 2015 observations are not that surprising after all. Staggered emission.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

Black carbon is one type of airborne particulate matter (PM), which is a title for all the microscopic solid and liquid particles suspended in our air. vehicles, cook stoves, oil and gas processing, and wildfires to name a few), there will be black carbon. AMAP Assessment 2015: Black Carbon and Ozone as Arctic Climate Forcers.”