Physics World

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Quantum technology: on the cusp of a revolution. technology – semiconductor junctions, transistors, lasers and so on. technology, which taps into phenomena like superposition and entanglement to permit everything from quantum computing and cryptography to quantum sensing, timing and imaging. Courtesy: IOP Publishing).

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

The tool has attracted national awards, and not just for adept use of science and technology. The post What’s Up With Water- October 4, 2021 appeared first on Circle of Blue. As a measure of Michigan’s determination to manage groundwater supply, the Water Assessment Unit and its online program have no equal.

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MAY 3, 2021

We selected the Renaissance Man Leonardo Da Vinci's birthday as a kind of a theme to recognize the diversity of the people and capabilities under the environmental umbrella- the original STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) wrapped up in one individual.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Spin doctor: Giorgio Parisi shares one half of the 2021 Nobel Prize For Physics. Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi have won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics. The post Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi win the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics appeared first on Physics World.

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Frontiers

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Frontiers in Chemical Engineering 2021 Outstanding Associate Editors Awards. Frontiers in Chemical Engineering 2021 Outstanding Review Editors Awards. We are very proud of our journal community and grateful for each member’s support in growing a robust chemical engineering journal and helping to Make Science Open.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2024

According to her press release at the time of bill introduction, “A 2021 study found that children who lived less than a mile away from an airport had 21% higher lead levels in their blood compared to children who lived farther away.

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APRIL 1, 2025

In 2021, as the leadership team started planning over how to best celebrate SEWAs 50 th Anniversary, the founder challenged them to understand how SEWA can stay relevant to the grassroots women workers for the next 50 years. This group of women learns about specific adaptation technologies.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Alongside ongoing efforts to help detect , analyse and prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, 2021 has seen also the introduction of novel cancer treatments, advances in diagnostic imaging technology and innovative new biomedical devices. Here are just a few of the research highlights that caught my eye this year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The report charts continued progress in several important categories in 2021, including PV module efficiency, system costs, and the prevalence of batteries, which are a more and more important piece of the solar picture. percent in 2021—that’s a 48 percent increase, much of it in the last decade. Source: LBNL 2022.

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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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MARCH 16, 2022

Renewable energy generation increases faster than any other technology. Generation from renewable technologies more than covers the increase in electricity demand, also making up for coal and nuclear plant retirements. This is where the analysis behind AEO2022 dates itself to November 2021.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

Frontiers has won the Best Culture of Learning category at the 2021 LinkedIn Talent Awards. Featuring custom-built technology, artificial?intelligence, We place the researcher at the center of everything we do and enable the research community to develop the?solutions solutions we need to live healthy lives on a?healthy healthy planet.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

This is an historic effort though it falls short of the broader ‘ Green New Deal ‘ goals that were proposed in 2019, and doesn’t include all of the elements that were in the proposed 2021 reconcilliation package (the American Jobs Plan in “ Build Back Better “) that ultimately floundered.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Here is a selection of some of our favourite materials and nanotechnology research in 2021. Today, physics is undergoing a second quantum revolution, with new technology allowing scientists to study ever more weird and wonderful systems. The post Materials and nanotechnology: highlights of 2021 appeared first on Physics World.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A 1 megawatt vanadium flow battery (a different technology from lithium-ion, but also used for energy storage) is in Pullman, Washington, built by UniEnergy Technologies and owned by Avista Utilities. Source: UniEnergy Technologies / Wikimedia Commons. Engineers develop energy storage battery technologies. Batteries.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

utilities have been slower to adopt the energy- and emissions-saving technologies than those in other parts of the world. Despite the economic advantages of these technologies and their potential environmental benefits, U.S. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — August 4, 2021. Photo © Richard Webb / Wikimedia Commons.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

What’s Up With Water – August 23, 2021 – This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers Afghanistan’s troubled water sector, water availability in the United States amid the pandemic, and an African nonprofit claiming that the textile and apparel industry is poisoning rivers with polluted wastewater. 30 PERCENT .

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The entities that measure water diversions select measurement and reporting technologies based on their goals, site-specific conditions, regulatory requirements, and other considerations such as cost, data accessibility, and data usability. 2021-69012-35916 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

While today’s carbon fiber and fiberglass require lots of energ y to produce and are hard to recycle , incorporating more bio-materials into their composites and developing new recycling technologies can reduce their footprint. In 2021 in the US, 8,000 blades —which each average about 200 feet—were retired.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 4, 2025

Following theMaterials Management Advisory Committees (MMAC) report to the General Assemblyin 2021, the Illinois EPA commissioned the ISTC at the University of Illinois to conduct a two-year study of large volume recyclables that would … Continue reading Illinois EPA and Illinois Sustainable Technology Center release new recycling report

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 15, 2021

What’s Up With Water – June 14, 2021 – This week’s episode covers new findings from an investigation of a destructive landslide in northern India last year, a rural Canadian community’s fight for clean drinking water, and an airborne pollution monitoring program that found traces of PFAS chemicals in rain samples from the Great Lakes region.

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JUNE 15, 2022

In 2021, 9 percent of US electricity came from those graceful kinetic sculptures, up from less than 3 percent in 2011. Wind power generation will continue to rise, including in the near term as a result of one of the US wind industry’s best years ever in 2021. Eight states generate more than 25 percent of their electricity from wind.

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JULY 27, 2022

EVs are a newer technology, and their batteries require different end-of-life processing than gasoline vehicles. They connect multiple EV batteries together, along with battery monitoring and cooling technology, to create a larger battery that is about the size of a shipping container. Slattery et al.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 24, 2021

What’s Up With Water – August 23, 2021 – This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers Afghanistan’s troubled water sector, water availability in the United States amid the pandemic, and an African nonprofit claiming that the textile and apparel industry is poisoning rivers with polluted wastewater. 30 PERCENT .

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MARCH 12, 2024

Recent UCS modeling , conducted in partnership with Evolved Energy Research (EER), shows that, to reach these goals means completely phasing out US coal generation by 2030; in this scenario, gas generation would fall from about 40 percent of US electricity generation in 2021 to 25 percent in 2030, and 2 percent in 2050 (see figure 1).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2023

But in 2018 he scored 9% and by 2021 the score was 17%, which seems quite high for a House Republican these days. McHenry then goes on to say that he is a co-sponsor of the Better Energy Storage Technology (BEST) Act, which he says “makes great strides in revolutionizing energy storage and U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Last year, US drivers bought more than 800,000 new electric vehicles (EVs), 65 percent more than in 2021, even as overall car sales declined. percent in 2021. That’s a far cry from just six years ago, when EVs were considered a niche technology (and the fossil fuel baron Charles Koch and his minions wanted to keep it that way).

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JUNE 7, 2022

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) had tallied up hundreds of projects cancelled or delayed, totaling more than 50 gigawatts—more than twice what the US solar industry installed during 2021. And it had warned of 100,000 jobs at risk, meaning almost half the US solar workforce. It proposes to do that through three pieces: 1.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

McKesson Europe aims to be carbon neutral by 2030, while McKesson Corporation set in 2021 a science-based target initiative to keep temperature increases in check and aligned with the Paris climate agreement.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

According to the 2021 report of Elsevier’s parent company, RELX, roughly 2.5 million articles were submitted for review to Elsevier last year, and the company published more than 600,000 articles in 2021 alone.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Rethinking the role of innovative pilots is an exciting development, because most utilities have not yet fully supported, let alone adopted, the technologies needed to reduce emissions. In 2021, it ordered that future proposals have to include objective criteria. Utilities, meanwhile, are calling for a higher budget cap.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021. I don’t mean to imply that technological progress will automatically fix things. Fourteen states now have net-zero emissions targets for the economy as a whole, and sixteen have zero-carbon targets for the grid. Rooftop solar costs in 2020 were a third of what they had been in 2010.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By expanding renewable power, phasing out fossil fuels, electrifying as much of the economy as possible, and deploying other technologies, the U.S. Technologies like biofuels and hydrogen, while necessary, come with potential drawbacks. And in Washington, driving declined by more than in any other state between 1996 and 2021.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Illinois utilities Ameren and Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) are preparing distribution grid plans for the first time under new requirements established by the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA) , which the Illinois Legislature passed in September 2021.

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MARCH 15, 2023

Information spreads around the world faster than it ever has in human history due to innovations in technology. Because artificial intelligence spreads disinformation , technology ethicists have been warning about the harms that technology is reinforcing on the most marginalized people.

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APRIL 24, 2023

Here’s a taste: Wind power , the largest single source of renewable electricity in the country, grew the most of any renewable energy source in overall generation from 2021 to 2022. Gas generation, after dropping in 2021, bounced back to its highest level yet in absolute terms, and accounted for 38 percent of US supply. It supplied 10.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

The corporation faced an unprecedented shareholder rebellion in 2021, with upstart hedge fund investor Engine No. In sworn testimony before the House Oversight and Reform Committee in 2021, ExxonMobil Chair and CEO Darren Woods refused to ensure that corporate funds are not spent to spread disinformation and block climate action.

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