Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

Total generation in spring and fall is consistently lower because of lower electricity demand for heating and cooling in the shoulder seasons. Then came a crescendo: Solar and wind generated more than 5 percent of monthly electricity for the first time in 2013, passed the 10 percent point in 2017, and soared past 15 percent in 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

They accounted for most of the failed generating capacity in a number of recent extreme weather events, including Winter Storm Uri in 2021 and Winter Storm Elliott in 2022, according to Gas Malfunction , a new Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) issue brief.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On October 6, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the 13 schools, businesses and community organization winners of the 2021 Governor's Awards for Environmental Excellence. The center’s boiler water treatment system was replaced with newer technology, and new air compressors installed.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 2, 2023

trillion in 2022 – this is up a whopping 19% compared to 2021 levels. However, it is still below the investments required each year between 2021 and 2030 if we are to meet the goal of staying on track to limit temperature increases to 1.5 The report was jointly produced by IRENA and the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI).

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Physics World

MAY 6, 2021

The consortium, backed by a £10m investment that includes funding from the UK government’s Quantum Technologies Challenge, is headed by Rigetti Computing. Calling customers via the cloud: Harriet van der Vliet, product segment manager for quantum technologies at Oxford Instruments NanoScience (Courtesy: Oxford Instruments NanoScience).

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Physics World

JULY 1, 2022

Diamond is suitable for ages 10 and up, and its inventors hope that it provides a realistic picture of what it is like to be a scientist – ultimately encouraging more young people to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and medicine. A boxed version of the game is now being delivered 100 schools in underserved areas of the UK.

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Physics World

JANUARY 7, 2022

Those critical challenges will require inventive and practical solutions, which is why automotive manufacturer Toyota has teamed up with The Electrochemical Society (ECS) to award a series of research fellowships focused on the development of green-energy technologies that reduce both pollution and carbon emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The report also evaluated and projected consumptive use, or water that is withdrawn from the Basin, but is not returned; examples include out-of-basin water transfers and water lost to evaporation from being used for cooling purposes in power generation. Posted: October 19, 2021] PA Environment Digest Follow DRBC on Twitter.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Up in flames After recording Canada’s highest ever temperature on 29 June 2021, Lytton in British Columbia had to be evacuated as wildfires engulfed the town and destroyed most of its buildings. On balance, clouds nearer the stratosphere warm us, whereas low-lying clouds tend to cool us because their greenhouse effect is smaller.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Magnetic moment: Tino Gottschall of the Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Germany was awarded the 2021 Nicholas Kurti Science Prize for his work on magnetic refrigeration. “Receiving the Nicholas Kurti prize was a great honour,” says Tino Gottschall, the winner of the 2021 prize. Courtesy: R Weisflog/HZDR).

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HumanNature

APRIL 11, 2022

Guest Post by Fionna Samuels , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. It’s cool, dry, and cut off from the outside world behind locked doors. The images we generated with this technology revealed that protective chemicals were not evenly distributed throughout plant cells. The first is a conventional seed vault.

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Breezometer

JULY 27, 2021

The Beckwourth Complex Fire, burning along the Nevada state line, is currently the largest 2021 wildfire burning in the US. The aforementioned Beckwourth Complex Fire, born out of a combination of lightning-caused blazes, already became California’s largest 2021 wildfire, consuming roughly 91,200 acres as of July 12th.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 12, 2022

Guest Post by Brendon Anthony , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. This is due to the extremely high quality of fruit that Western Colorado can produce, given its ideal climate (warm days, cool nights in the summer) and access to local markets, which allows the picking and sales of peaches at a more “tree ripe” stage (i.e.,

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2021

In many cases, an entire building needs to be heated or cooled even if only a portion of the building is occupied. Posted: August 10, 2021] PA Environment Digest This wastes energy. Click Here for a copy of the complete report.

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Physics World

AUGUST 2, 2021

At precisely 07:54 UTC on 17 June 2021, China passed the latest milestone in its quest to become a global space power. Jonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics stresses that technological advancements from building the CSS will hugely benefit China’s space endeavours in the future.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Guest Post by Amanda Cicchino , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Thinking about the computers that I use now, some twenty years later, I can revel at the speed at which technology has developed. Cultivating DNA Sequencing Technology after the Human Genome Project. References Schloss, J. Makhijani, V.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2022

Of Agriculture Reports 48 Cases Of Rabies In PA Since March -- The Economist - Technology Quarterly: How To Fix The World’s Energy Emergency Without Wrecking The Environment - Safe Supply v.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2023

On June 13, Public Utility Commission Chairman Gladys Brown Dutrieuille told the House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities Committee Winter Storm Elliot has again demonstrated extreme weather can have a significant impact on electric grid operations in terms of reliability and resilience.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The lake was created in 1971 by damming a creek of the same name — to provide cooling water for the nearby coal-powered power plant, then owned by Pennsylvania Power and Light, now widely known as PPL. It shows him at age 5, in a catcher’s crouch next to a bucket, staring at a fishing pole on the shore of the preserve’s Lake Chillisquaque.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

At RePlanet Nederland, we are delighted that the European Commission has proposed, on December 31, 2021, to include nuclear energy in the sustainable finance taxonomy. We believe we must take a science-based approach and prioritize policies and technologies that enable us to liberate nature and elevate humanity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

This is due in no small part to the “ nuclear bros ”: an active and seemingly tireless group of nuclear power advocates who dominate social media discussions on energy by promoting SMRs and other “advanced” nuclear technologies as the only real solution for the climate crisis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 23, 2023

Now, if you thought I was going to say that clean energy technologies aren’t capable of providing a reliable electricity supply, you’re way off track. There’s a whole host of reasons for gas plant failures, including mechanical breakdowns , fuel shortages , and issues with cooling water.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

Completed in December 2021, the county installed a 2.5-acre The Township was awarded the grant in May of 2021 and performed water sampling over the summer months. Manure Expo combines 1) Educational Sessions, 2) Technology Demonstrations, and 3) an Industry Trade Show.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Guest Post By Erin Boedicker , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Interactions and Indirect Environmental Effects Clouds are a beautiful feature of our atmosphere, but they also have an important role: cooling. References Arctic Council. Arctic Council. June 25, 2020. link] Arctic Monitoring & Assessment Program.

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Breezometer

MAY 23, 2022

Can climate resilience technology help businesses protect people and property from such devastating wildfire events? Much like big volcanic eruptions, the smoke from fire tornadoes can block radiation from the Sun and potentially cause temporary climatic cooling. Is climate change making ‘firenadoes’ more likely? What is a Firenado?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The US solar industry was valued at $33 billion in 2021, employed more than 230,000 people, and continued to grow in power capacity at an average rate of 33 percent per year. Solar panels generated almost 4 percent of electricity in the US in 2021, up from less than 1 percent in 2015.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2022

Heat pumps are a highly efficient technology that provides all-electric space and water heating and cooling, acting essentially as a two-way air conditioner. The report captures the progress since our 2021 report Building toward Decarbonization and identifies additional policy solutions to overcome remaining barriers.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Despite huge advances in nuclear technology in recent decades, everyone still thinks about the accidents that occurred at older reactors like Chernobyl , Three Mile Island or Fukushima. Germany, for example, closed three of its six remaining nuclear plants on 31 December 2021, which together accounted for 6% of the country’s electricity.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce For a hearing on “Power Struggle: Examining the 2021 Texas Grid Failure” Written statement submitted by: Michael D. is 32 years, as of January 2021. [14] percent, 47.4 percent, 51.5 percent, and 13.7 percent of the grid’s power.

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Physics World

JANUARY 7, 2022

The scope was finally launched on 25 December 2021, at 7:20 a.m. That is because before it can push the envelope of what science and space technology can achieve, it had to first overcome a dangerous deep-space unpacking: its 6.5 Layered protection: A test model of the giant sunshield that will keep the JWST cool. Keeping cool.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 11, 2021

In a lengthy opinion filed April 8, and ordered published on May 7, 2021, the Third District Court of Appeal affirmed a judgment rejecting a number of CEQA challenges to the California State Land Commission’s (Lands Commission) supplemental EIR for and related approval of a lease modification to facilitate a desalination plant in Huntington Beach.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Gas plants proposed as of the close of 2021 were estimated to result in up to $74 billion in health costs over their lifetime, and that’s just from the burning of gas at the power plant, ignoring all of the polluting upstream impacts from drilling and transporting gas.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 20, 2023

As directed by a state law enacted in 2021, as HB 1286, the Colorado Health Department’s Air Pollution Control Division developed the newly finalized standards. Last week, Colorado established mandatory energy performance standards for large buildings. Buildings are one of Colorado’s top five sources of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Other sections, however, seem likely to be significantly more opaque for a non-technical reader, such as this one on experiments that appear to cool matter below absolute zero : “The circumstances in which such an effect occurs are having a gas in which most of the particles have very high energy (though not kinetic energy).

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

There are questions of agency – who is responsible – and the technological problems can be mind boggingly hard to understand, let alone solve. These are the technologies – and the jobs – of the future. That’s why wasted energy is so prevalent. Then there is the entire topic of primary vs final energy.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Going to Silicon Valley was such a cool opportunity.” At the time, IBM was seeking to apply its database technologies to the needs of pharma companies that wanted to search for molecular structures in their large compound libraries. Applications for ARISE are open from 1 September until 31 October 2021.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

But other low-carbon technologies do not tread as lightly. Nuclear plants demand enormous volumes of water for cooling, and they kill aquatic life and make rivers warmer in the process. These technologies require even more energy. That affects water use because most thermal power plants need water for cooling.

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