Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

An ambitious law that promises to accelerate the state’s clean energy transition, CEJA provides a detailed framework for greater utility transparency and accountability to update electricity distribution infrastructure to ensure a clean energy future. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A wind turbine includes a foundation, a tower, electrical wiring, a nacelle between the blades, and the blades themselves. The energy research firm Wood Mackenzie estimates that the number of blades using PET as their core material instead of balsa will increase from 20% in 2018 to 55% in 2023. Blade materials are special.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Part of that progress is due to the increasing dominance of more-efficient mono-crystalline technologies (the ones with smooth-looking single-crystal cells). LBNL also mentions the increasing use of passivated emitter rear-cell technology, or PERC. . Source: LBNL 2022. PV systems are getting larger. Much more to come.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2022

In March, start-up BasiGo became the first company to launch an electric passenger bus in Kenya. We selected BYD because they are the largest manufacturer of electric buses globally and they are known for battery technology that is state-of-the-art,” BasiGo co-founder and CEO Jit Bhattacharya told China Dialogue.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2024

On January 18, the Department of Environmental Protection presented the final version of technical guidance on using trenchless technology to construct natural gas, other pipelines and underground utilities to the DEP Water Resources Advisory Committee. Each project that proposes trenchless technology (e.g.,

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A Greener Life

APRIL 3, 2025

Copper, lithium, cobalt, manganese, rare earth metals and graphite essential ingredients for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, renewable technologies and decarbonisation of industrial processes are plentiful across the continent. Without reliable electricity, industrialisation sputters.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the February 24 PA Bulletin the final technical guidance on using trenchless technology to construct natural gas, other pipelines and underground utilities is now available and effective. Each project that proposes trenchless technology (e.g.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

Whatever the weather in March and beyond—in-like-a-lion blustery or out-like-a-lamb sunny—spring tends to be a season of strong electricity production from solar and wind in particular. Spring is also a glorious time for taking stock, since the official data on the previous year’s US electricity generation become available.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A quick glance at the latest data from CARB shows there are three large and growing sources of credits: bio-based diesel, biomethane and electricity. Bio-based diesel, biomethane and electricity are the largest and fastest growing sources of LCFS credits in recent years.

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Physics World

JULY 26, 2021

The team, led by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spotted the curious behaviour in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG), which is a member of a family of 2D materials that have extraordinary properties. In this case, pairs can stay bound together in magnetic fields above the Pauli limit.

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Physics World

MARCH 15, 2022

That is the conclusion of researchers who have modelled the effects of particulate pollution on solar irradiance in 2001–2018. In their latest research, Dey, Ganguly and colleagues modelled how atmospheric attenuation and soiling affected India’s solar-energy output in 2001–2018. Satellite data. Dual-axis losses.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2025

By Meagan Weisner, PhD , Senior Scientist, Healthy Communities and Paige Varner, PhD , Scientist, Healthy Communities A new study from Environmental Defense Fund finds that even oil and gas production that uses the most stringent emissions reductions technologies poses health risks to nearby residents.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Lower Sesan 2 Dam, which came online in 2018, is Cambodia’s largest hydroelectric dam. However, since it came online in late 2018, the dam has underperformed economically, in large part because of a drought that has gripped the region during consecutive years and stymied water flow. © Wonders of the Mekong. © Wonders of the Mekong.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

This condition was originally discovered by DEP on October 4, 2018 and the operator has been trying to correct the problem since then. SPLP estimates around five days for the cleanup.” “DEP DEP inspectors will check the site daily during the cleanup and someone from DEP was out there this morning to check the cleanup,” said Shader.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

On May 1, the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee was told the wholesale prices of electricity in the PJM regional electric grid are too low to support coal and natural gas power plants. Electric vehicle proliferation, just look at all the mandates related to electric cars.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

But large-scale battery storage has actually gotten much safer in recent years, with the failure rate dropping 97% between 2018 and 2023. Battery storage systems are required to obey all relevant building and electrical codes. Battery storage is a relatively new, rapidly developing technology. First responders have been injured.

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Physics World

MARCH 22, 2022

The four biggest players – Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), General Fusion , TAE Technologies and Tokamak Energy – account for 85% of that cash. The report found that most private fusion companies expect fusion power to be supplying electricity to the grid in the 2030s. Development could begin in 2025. The race is on.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2023

The Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee will hold its second hearing May 1 on electric grid reliability and the failure of natural gas and other generation to provide power when called on by PJM during Winter Storm Elliot in December. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. A s we transition our homes and vehicles to electric power, it’s imperative that the electricity sector be clean. First electricity from renewable sources is turned into heated compressed air.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2022

Storm surge overwash in Charlestown barrier-strip island due to nor’easter storm in March 2018. Saltwater mapping with electrical resistivity imaging in the southern coast of Rhode Island by a team of University of Rhode Island students. Summer tourism, sea level rise, and storm surges threaten East Coast wells.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Rare earth elements, or REEs, are important parts of a wind turbine’s permanent magnets , located in the center of the blades in the electrical box (called the nacelle). The World Bank predicts that the demand for neodymium for energy technologies in 2050 will be 37% of total 2018 neodymium production.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

China is intent on using the Winter Olympics to showcase how they’re at the forefront of implementing low-carbon technologies and thereby tackling climate change. Natural CO2 refrigeration at the ice rinks to 100% renewables-powered venues are just some of the technologies implemented. Photo credit: Beijing 2022. By Anders Lorenzen.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

In the last week, the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh and Brandie Jefferson from the University of Pittsburgh published articles saying oil and gas wastewater can be a major source of lithium for rechargeable battery production. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

Together with colleagues, he has analysed Australian astronomers’ total greenhouse-gas emissions over 2018–2019 from “regular activities” such as travelling, using supercomputers and working at large observatories. In 2018 each researcher at the institute emitted around 18 tCO 2 e ( Nat. Source of the problem.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

terawatt hours of electricity annually, which is enough to power 300 000 UK homes for a year. It found that greenhouse-gas emissions emitted by the lab in 2018 was 223 800 tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent. . The CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva, for example, uses 1.3

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Physics World

MARCH 15, 2022

Last year, experimentalists at Harvard University in the US made an unexpected discovery: three layers of graphene are better than two at conducting electricity without resistance. At the time, the reasons for this unusual superconducting behaviour were unclear.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

By Leigh Hartman When Son Nguyen lived in the US, he saw rapidly advancing electric vehicle technology and heard stories from back in Vietnam about air pollution. The company sells electric motorbikes in Danang, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and is exploring the reuse of electric batteries and how to power its factory with green energy.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

The Inventory was updated to include 2018 numbers which show greenhouse gas emissions increased for the second consecutive year in Pennsylvania from 236.21 million tons in 2018. million tons in 2018-- 47.88 The mix of electric generation fuels switched from 55.5 percent natural gas in 2018. million tons.

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Physics World

MAY 28, 2021

Recent advances in materials, mechanics, and manufacturing establish the foundations for high-performance classes of microfluidic lab-on-a-chip technologies that have physical properties matched to those of human skin. Want to take part in this webinar? Join the audience. Want to take part in this webinar? Join the audience.

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Physics World

APRIL 7, 2022

This describes the basis of our technology, which was Yichen’s PhD project. . In 2018 we assembled a team of 15 employees and the company got its first round of funding. So what we really need is a new technology to further expand the computing power needed for AI. How does your technology solve the speed problem?

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Physics World

JULY 6, 2021

In 2018, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory created the first Kagome metal in the laboratory. They then determined that it became superconducting at around 3 K by measuring its magnetism and electrical resistance as it cooled.

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Physics World

MARCH 2, 2022

Such perturbations are known as space weather, and they can damage satellites, impact communications technologies and GPS signals, and even cause power outages on the ground at high latitudes. The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 with a mission to learn more about the solar corona and how heat moves through it. Corona heating.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

But what you probably haven’t heard is that our grid is getting dirtier again, with fossil fuels increasing in our electricity supply from burning natural gas. That means carbon emissions from electricity in Ontario will be rising back up again after years of decline. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 . Source: IESO [link].

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Law Columbia

MAY 6, 2025

Lithium has become a cornerstone of the global energy transition, powering technologies central to decarbonization efforts, such as electric vehicle batteries and large-scale renewable energy storage. Only through such a transformation can Chile ensure a just and sustainable lithium future.

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MAY 22, 2023

Lawmakers in Congress introduce bills on hydropower reform , mining law reform , and water technology adoption. Baltimore has not done that for two such reservoirs, despite agreeing to do so by the end of 2018. The Rundown The EPA wants to expand the number of coal ash facilities regulated to protect water bodies from contaminants.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It wasn’t an auspicious start to the commercialization of quantum information technologies (QITs). But that’s not unusual for a new technology. The UK’s National Quantum Technology Programme (NQTP) kicked off in 2013 with around £1bn promised over a 10-year period, and is now entering its second phase.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

CIG Classic Basics Part of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), the CIG program is administered by NRCS and provides grant funding for the development, application, and demonstration of innovative conservation technologies and approaches. electricity or propane) and indirectly (e.g., They use energy directly (e.g.,

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