Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2021

First, after carbon dioxide emissions cease, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels begin to decrease, as they are absorbed by natural processes and sinks in the oceans and on land. That drop in costs means that decarbonizing our economy might not be a heavy burden for the public, and might even be economically beneficial.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

These pollutants react in the atmosphere to form harmful particulate matter pollution known as PM 2.5. Evaluate and adjust incentive programs based on changing conditions in the electric vehicle market. These older vehicles are responsible for 73% of all nitrogen oxide exhaust from passenger vehicles and 64% of reactive organic gases.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. However, make no mistake: Technological advancement did not create the production boom by itself. A smaller percentage of homes are heated by other sources, such as electricity or propane.)

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Physics World

MARCH 2, 2022

A close analysis of data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has revealed that electromagnetic “whistler waves” – so named because early radio operators mistook these eerie, descending sounds for a person whistling – are unexpectedly absent from certain regions of the Sun’s upper atmosphere. Signatures of an ambipolar electric field.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

Atmosphere The gaseous envelope surrounding the Earth. The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% In addition, the atmosphere contains water vapor, whose amount is highly variable but typically 1% volume mixing ratio.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2023

Fossil gas, which is used for heating, electricity, and industrial processes, is responsible for one third of Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions and is harmful to human health. These new gas plant projects are part of the province’s plan to expand the use of fossil gas to generate electricity for the province, but it comes at a high cost.

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Brag

JANUARY 24, 2023

” It can generate electricity when used for fuel cells, serve as a heating fuel for boilers, or be used as a sustainable or blended fuel for road, marine, or (potentially) aviation. Hutton The U.S. BETO notes that the long-term challenge of the research will be scaling up scientific findings into commercial applications.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Carbon capture also offers fossil fuel interests a new technology through which to solicit public – aka taxpayer – funding while allowing them to continue extracting and burning dirty fuels. There are many, many concerns with carbon capture and storage technology ( and we go over them in our repor t).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. The report found that these states can meet all of their electricity consumption with renewables by 2035, even with a significant increase in demand due to the electrification of transportation and heating.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the US Air Force Research Laboratories have now shown that adding carbon nanotubes to transistors and circuits could render these devices resistant to higher amounts of radiation than is possible with standard silicon-based electronics. Electrical properties protected.

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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. “Science has a key role to play, and in particular at big-science facilities, where we are constantly pushing forwards the frontiers of knowledge and technology to the highest levels of excellence and inventiveness,” the statement notes. .

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Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

On September 21, 2023, the Biden administration outlined plans to expand federal agencies’ consideration of the social cost of carbon—a metric for the economic cost of each additional ton of carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere. Postal Service has assessed climate benefits in selecting its next generation delivery vehicles.

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JANZEN AG

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

More remarkable, these new digesters are generating biogas that, rather than being used locally to generate electricity, is instead pumped into existing natural gas pipelines that crisscross the United States, ending in terminals on the western seaboard. What happened that pushed this technology over the hump? Why dairy farm manure?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2023

In Elliott’s aftermath, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration aptly called the storm a “historic arctic outbreak.” The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT): Unlike PJM and MISO, ERCOT—which is the grid operator for most of the Lone Star State—hasn’t yet published any preliminary reports on Winter Storm Elliott.

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Frontiers

APRIL 26, 2022

A crewed mission to Mars will require transporting equipment for creating electricity to power life support systems. While modern science has debunked the Red Planet as a likely source of an alien invasion, today’s technology is bringing us closer to a crewed mission. By Peter Rejcek, science writer.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2024

and found it to be abandoned and not plugged properly and was venting natural gas into the atmosphere. DEP issued notices of violation for abandonment and requested a written report by February 9, 2024 on how the operator will bring the wells into compliance. [ 1; Will It Address Natural Gas Infrastructure Vulnerabilities ?

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Physics World

MAY 16, 2022

At QinetiQ , a UK-based technology company specializing in defence and security solutions, around 10 years of research effort into the physics underpinning these directed-energy systems has demonstrated enough potential to start building and testing practical prototypes. Richard Hoad, QinetiQ. ” Scalable benefits. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

With an outsized credit for the lowest-carbon tier, the incentive’s aim is clear: Drive deployment of hydrogen production technologies that will be needed by, and aligned with , the nation’s overall clean energy transition. But instead of meeting that straightforward aim, a series of implementation loopholes threaten to fully undermine it.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Enbridge’s marketing materials claim heating with gas is cheapest, though electric heat pumps would save a typical homeowner over $10,000 by comparison. Enbridge’s dishonest marketing is duping people into signing up for its gas service, falsely claiming it’s cheaper than heating with electricity which is just not true.”

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A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

Options for enhancing the ocean’s capacity to take in carbon include restoring ecosystems like kelp forests, adding minerals such as lime and using electricity to boost alkalinity. It’s now widely acknowledged that to avoid catastrophic climate change we’ll need to physically remove CO2 from the atmosphere. By Olive Heffernan.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

Simply put, gases that trap heat in the atmosphere (. Yes, water vapor is the most abundant GHG in the atmosphere, but it is a different animal and water vapor does control Earth’s temperature but, there is never a change in the amount of water on Earth.). In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S. emission trends.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Given its tiny size, it is very hard to keep hydrogen from leaking into the atmosphere. Depending on the end-use of renewable hydrogen, electricity generation requirements can be 2 to 14 times higher than direct electrification solutions for the same effect.

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Physics World

JUNE 7, 2022

I loved that summer – the atmosphere in the department was amazing,” Tremblay recalls. “I Her engineering physics degree was followed by a Master’s degree in integrated optics and a PhD in optoelectronics, after which she spent 14 years accumulating domain knowledge and applied know-how at Canada’s leading fibre-optic technology companies.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Superconductors are materials that conduct electricity without any resistance. The team led by Artem Oganov and Dmitrii Semenok of Russia’s Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), together with Tian Cui, Xiaoli Huang and Wuhao Chen from Jilin University in China took a slightly different approach.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In moving to more granular charges, OVO can use that data to pass on savings to their customers if, for example, the wind is blowing and turbines are generating energy, or if electricity is cheap at certain times. Flora Biggins , PhD student, University of Sheffield, UK. But developing this capacity requires financial investment.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

In this blog, we’ll take a look at the technologies that are being sold as climate saviours when their real objective is to prolong the life of the polluting fossil fuels which are driving climate change: carbon capture, offsets and ‘blue’ hydrogen. There are many, many concerns with carbon capture technology. degrees is narrowing.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Our analysis also relies on the large-scale deployment of technologies capable of removing CO? from the atmosphere sometime in the future. By 2050, our scenario expects around four gigatonnes a year will be being captured by so-called negative emission technologies. The world may need to be even more ambitious.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Both technology and the shift of fuels have contributed to this trend. Coal- and natural gas-burning power plants emit sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, but coal has a much higher sulfur content than natural gas and releases more sulfur dioxide when burned. We wanted to look at how this trend has affected water quality.” percent.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes. In April, Air Canada committed to investing $50 million in SAFs and other carbon-reducing technologies. With the sector contributing 2.8%

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Physics World

DECEMBER 23, 2021

It involves vaporizing metals a flash chamber by applying a brief (less than 1 s), intense pulse of electrical current to the waste, rapidly heating it to 3400 K. Today, physics is undergoing a second quantum revolution, with new technology allowing scientists to study ever more weird and wonderful systems.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

As scientists, one of the most frustrating things we can be told is “nice idea, but the technology to achieve it doesn’t exist yet”. Academic researchers rarely have enough time and resources to push the development of such technology forward, so these ideas invariably get shelved.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

So we need to deliver on all of the wonderful words written down and deploy the technologies that we have. Steven Sherwood, atmospheric physicist, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. It’s an achievable goal because electricity generation is centralized, we only have a countable number of electric power plants.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of the Interior (DOI), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—to implement the IRA. This section appropriates $27 billion to EPA for the GGRF, including $7 billion for low-income and disadvantaged communities.

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Physics World

JANUARY 30, 2022

The researchers suggest future work should focus on increasing the reflectance of wavelengths of sunlight not converted to electricity. And the photovoltaic panels then do convert some of that energy to electricity, but typical panels today are only maybe 16–20% efficient. Why was there a need for a systematic review like this?

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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

“Currently, both plants are operating satisfactorily, contributing a great deal of renewable energy, ” said Rodrigo Corrales, general manager of ENDE Guaracachi, the state-owned electricity company that operates the complex. According to his projections, by 2040, the electric power production capacity should grow to 18,000 MW.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

By Harry Campbell, Science Policy & Advocacy Director, Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA With continuing advances in technology and declining costs, large-scale solar projects are popping up all over the Commonwealth. According to Penn State Extension, trees are also “…without a doubt the best carbon capture technology in the world.”

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