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How Are Solar Panels Made?

Union of Concerned Scientists

The recipe for cooking up metallurgical grade silicon is Add 1 part silicon dioxide (gravel) and 2 parts carbon (sourced from coal, charcoal, or wood chips) to an electric arc furnace Crank up the heat to 2200 degrees Celsius (this is a third of the temperature of the sun!!) Solar Panels Should Be Reused and Recycled. Here’s How.

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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 1.26.23

PA Environment Daily

5:15 to 6:15 p.m. -- Philly Voice: Greening Vacant Lots In Philly Raised Surrounding Property Values By 4.3% In First Year, Wharton Business School Study Finds -- TribLive: Pittsburgh Looks To Spend $2.6 In First Year, Wharton Business School Study Finds -- TribLive: Pittsburgh Looks To Spend $2.6

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DEP Notified Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County It Can No Longer Operate Under An Air Quality Construction Permit And Has 120 Days To Submit A Full Title V Air Quality Permit Application

PA Environment Daily

Deficiencies In Act 2 Land Cleanup Report On February 6, 2024, DEP sent a deficiency letter to the Shell Petrochemical Plant saying a Final Report Shell submitted under the Act 2 Land Recycling Program "did not demonstrate attainment of the Statewide Health and Site-Specific cleanup standards.”

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DEP Awards 4 Grants Totaling $2.9 Million To Replace Old Diesel With Clean-Energy Vehicles

PA Environment Daily

By replacing older polluting engines and equipment with new technologies, funded projects remove nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and hydrocarbon pollution from the air. “This comprehensive approach to reducing vehicle emissions will help improve Pennsylvanians’ health while also helping to slow climate change.”

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Fermentation turns greenhouse gases into useful chemicals

Physics World

Instead, the new study considered autotrophic production, using waste resources such as carbon oxides (carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide) from heavy industry, or syngas from biomass resources, as a starting point. Co-led by Ching Leang, Michael Jewett and Michael Köpke, the collaborative research team from LanzaTech Inc.,

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How Green Tech Helps Create Sustainable Mobility in Cities

Earthava

Green technologies are eco-friendly inventions that’ concerned with energy efficiency, recycling, renewable resources , and more. These biofuels also produce fewer air pollutants such as carbon monoxide, air toxics, and sulphur dioxide, among others. It recycles or reuses waste materials to develop roads.

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Environmental Perspectives

Environmental Science

There are only 6 NAAQS - ozone, carbon monoxide, particulates, lead, sulfur dioxides, and nitrogen dioxides - but they dominate most air quality concerns ranging from smog to health effects, such as from particulates and lead. We are also trying to recycle wastewater sludges for fertilizer, but there are similar issues.