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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.”

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How Are Solar Panels Made?

Union of Concerned Scientists

There are two types of solar technology for electricity generation. Another technology, concentrating solar power (CSP) , uses the sun’s heat instead. That technology accounts for 84% of US solar panels , according to the US Department of Energy. The most common type of PV panel is made using crystalline-silicon (c-SI).

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The Fuss about Methane

Legal Planet

It replaced an earlier, more dangerous, product called “town gas” or “coal gas,” which consisted mainly of hydrogen and carbon monoxide and was produced by heating coal in. “Natural gas” was a marketing term for this then-new, safer gas pumped through urban distribution pipes starting in the 1940s. the absence of air.