Physics World

APRIL 16, 2025

At close to room temperature, classical models can closely predict how the electric fields emanating from ions will induce dipoles in nearby neutral molecules, allowing researchers to calculate these reaction rates with impressive accuracy. This creates neutral atoms of helium and oxygen, and a positively-charged carbon atom.

Carbon Monoxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Solar panels generated almost 4 percent of electricity in the US in 2021, up from less than 1 percent in 2015. In some places that number is much higher; for example, 17% of California’s electricity generation came from solar in 2021. Even more encouraging, by 2030, the solar industry aims to generate nearly a third of US electricity.

Carbon Monoxide

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 30, 2024

Heat pumps run on electricity and do not emit any greenhouse gasses so using one will be part of your contribution to reducing the effects of climate change. Heat pumps are an all-in-one appliance which provides heating and cooling in the same unit. If this goes unnoticed, it could cause carbon monoxide poisoning.

Carbon Monoxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Eight percent of those deaths were attributed to carbon monoxide poisoning. Without electricity or heat, some people apparently turned to portable generators, which can fill a home with carbon monoxide exhaust. In 2021, Winter Storm Uri killed at least 246 Texans.

Carbon Monoxide