Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

EPA tells us succinctly, Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities. In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S. Surprising to some, carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. Simply put, gases that trap heat in the atmosphere (. emission trends.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Nearly a third of our current carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions come from burning fossil gas for electricity, home heating and other uses! BONUS – COOL TECH ALERT! A new report explains how the provincial government can do just that, while also creating jobs and growing the economy.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2021

The Erie District avoided over 8,000 metric tons of CO2e [carbon dioxide equivalent] emissions in 2020, an amount equal to the emissions of over 740 homes. In many cases, an entire building needs to be heated or cooled even if only a portion of the building is occupied. percent in 2019. This wastes energy.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

Direct emissions are produced from residential and commercial activities in a variety of ways: Combustion of natural gas and petroleum products for heating including water heating and cooking needs emits carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O).

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2022

To date, the prevailing narrative for decarbonizing this region has centered around the perpetuation of the natural gas industry and costly investments in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies and infrastructure. billion annually. This is especially true for rural or exurban areas.

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

A woman pours water over her head to cool off during soaring temperatures in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 11 April 2023. Achieving a more ambitious target for renewables is doable because we have the technology and it is affordable. Temperature records have been broken across Asia in recent weeks. Photo credit: Habibur Rahman /Alamy Live News.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

Manure Expo combines 1) Educational Sessions, 2) Technology Demonstrations, and 3) an Industry Trade Show. Commercial operators work on many farms, meaning that adoption of technology and increased knowledge impact large amounts of acreage. The project is reducing emissions and Phoenix Contact’s carbon footprint.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Figure 1: Size reference for atmospheric particles (US EPA 2016) and a general structure of freshly created black carbon. Direct Environmental Effects Did you know that black carbon is the second most important warming agent in our atmosphere behind carbon dioxide (CO 2 )? References Arctic Council. Arctic Council.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

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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Ivy Protocol

AUGUST 23, 2023

UNDO ’s focus on enhanced rock weathering developed from the realization that conventional strategies, like mass tree planting, could not alone counter the massive amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Even ubiquitous tree planting would leave us with an excess of carbon dioxide.’ It is also common.

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Physics World

MAY 30, 2021

We’ve all heard about the promise of quantum technologies to transform business and industry, whether it be for more secure communications networks or vastly more powerful computation. We have built more than 10 units and we really believe that quantum technology offers a very interesting competitive advantage for gravity measurements.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Even if there is water available, heat waves can cause the water sources to be too hot, which can reduce the plant’s efficiency or even cause unsafe operating conditions because the plant can’t be adequately cooled.

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Physics World

JANUARY 7, 2022

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 If it continues to succeed without a hitch, it should transform astronomy – all thanks to several technological marvels that make the JWST a unique and powerful instrument.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

It also incorporates both a warm and a cool period during the oscillation - both of which impact upper atmospheric winds (10). In more recent times, Krakatoa in the East Indies cooled the planet's temperature rise and halted sea level rise for at least two decades, and that was one volcano - albeit an intense one (20).

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

not plants, animals, or bacteria), get their energy by breaking down organic molecules via a different chemical pathway than we air-breathers use to get our energy, which does not require oxygen and ends in methane instead of carbon dioxide and water. The clever microbes that do this, mostly Archaea (i.e.,

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Environment Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

Bill Gates hailed Bitcoin as a “technological tour de force” while Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, said that it “has the potential to do something like change the world.”. Typically, miners want to operate from cool climates because this helps minimise the temperature of the mining farm which, in turn, keeps running costs down.

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 26, 2023

This means that buildings must use electric heating, cooling, and hot water systems instead of natural gas or oil. As technology continues to improve to be able to make that change a reality, the current increased first costs of all electric buildings will decrease. The fossil fuel based economy has changed, but building codes didn’t.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

A Year After Norfolks Southern Train Derailment -- The Allegheny Front: A Year Later, A PA Resident Impacted By Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Pushes For Answers -- PA Solar Center: 2 Get Solar Projects Move Forward In Lawrence, Centre Counties; Get Solar Webinar Feb. Chapter Host 20th Washington Cherry Pike Hike Feb.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

The Trump EPA had invoked the major questions doctrine and the Agency’s past interpretation of technology-based standards under section 111 of the Clean Air to find that EPA could not rely upon switching methods of power generation to establish an emissions reduction budget under a cap-and-trade program.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Capturing carbon is a must. Countries will also have to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to keep global warming in check. degrees or try to cool the planet back down through the massive use of CDR. CNSF – FY 2023 Appropriations Letter (identical letters sent to both the House and Senate ) (April 7, 2022).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

And in summary, his testimony says, one, joining RGGI will reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from Pennsylvania's power generation sector and will also contribute to improved air quality. There's new technology out there, fluidized bed coal-fired power plants. This will benefit the health of many Pennsylvanians.

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