PA Environment Daily

JUNE 22, 2025

On June 22, the PJM Interconnection issued a Maximum Generation Alert and Load Management Alert for Monday, June 23 as hot weather continues throughout the region PJM serves to ensure the reliable delivery of electricity to its customers across 13 states and the District of Columbia. Click Here for a copy of the PJM announcement.

Electricity

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Project Cirrus,” a joint project of the US military and General Electric researchers, tried to disrupt and weaken one 1947 hurricane by seeding its eyewall clouds to increase rainout and destabilize its structure. They could cool the Earth on average but not precisely undo the patterns of disruption from GHGs.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

The [federal Bipartisan Infrastructure and Inflation Reduction Acts] provide billions of dollars in investment aimed at expanding low-and no-carbon technologies, accelerating a just energy transition, and building equity into climate adaptation efforts. 70% of the program proceeds will go toward electric bill rebates for ratepayers.

Climate Change

Scientific American

JULY 16, 2025

Shanghai Hailanyun Technology To grow its economy, China is betting big on artificial intelligence , cloud computing and other digital technology—and a big part of that bet involves rapidly building data centers to boost computing power. So they need to be constantly cooled.

Wind Power

A Greener Life

JANUARY 2, 2025

Ironically, Germany also imports nuclear-produced electricity from France. In 2024, the demand for coal reached new heights due to the worlds increasing appetite for more electricity capacity. China diversified its electricity sector in 2024 in line with the countrys long-term trajectory of adding more renewables and nuclear.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 22, 2025

House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee hearing on House Bill 505 (Donahue-D-Lackawanna) modernizing the Act 129 Energy Efficiency and Conservation Program (part of Governor’s Lightning Energy Plan ). Room 205 Ryan Building. Click Here to watch live. June 24-- NEW.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2025

House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee hearing on House Bill 505 (Donahue-D-Lackawanna) modernizing the Act 129 Energy Efficiency and Conservation Program (part of Governor’s Lightning Energy Plan ). Room 205 Ryan Building. Click Here to watch live. June 24-- NEW.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2025

With a skilled workforce that has made Pennsylvania a leader in electrical and natural gas production, the state is uniquely positioned to become a leader in next-generation geothermal energy. That means ensuring a stable regulatory environment that gives industry the confidence to invest in this game-changing technology." Williams. “I

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While close to 50 percent of Massachusetts neighborhoods (2,604 of 4,985 census block groups) classify as  EJ neighborhoods , more than 80 percent of existing polluting electricity generating units—with their associated health risks—are located in or within one mile of an EJ neighborhood.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

So, I want to look at these four areas: the overall electricity situation in PJM; market forces; policy forces; and A.I. PJM Overview Electricity prices in PJM, which serves all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia, are rising dramatically due to a failure to transition to clean energy. frankly can make things worse.

Natural Gas

Physics World

JUNE 25, 2025

This is crucial when developing single-photon emitters and detectors for quantum technologies. Closed-cycle cryocoolers offer an efficient way to cool samples to temperatures as low as ~2 K to 4 K (−272 °C to −269 °C). Pulse tubes offer similar cooling powers to GM cryocoolers but at much lower vibration levels.

Cooling

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 11, 2025

We’ve grown used to the convenience of technologies that quietly run in the background: automated garage door openers, heating and cooling systems, and medical devices. In places without cooling or heating, indoor temperatures become unsafe. But when the power goes out, that ease quickly turns into disruption. Parents miss work.

Cooling

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

February 10, 2025 Cutting-edge technology applied to energy development, geography, and species assessments is a path to achieving more security for water supply. Some intriguing initiatives this week that caught our interest: Small modular nuclear reactors to generate electricity are steadily moving to market. ever produced.

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JANZEN AG

AUGUST 5, 2025

Nuclear microreactors are small reactors that generate less than 50 megawatts of electric power. Microreactors are still a technology under development. The GAO also states that the cooling and heat transfer technologies require further development. Personally, I think microreactor technology holds a lot of promise.

Renewable Energy

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

February 10, 2025 Cutting edge technology applied to energy development, geography, and species assessments is a path to achieving more security for water supply. Some intriguing initiatives this week that caught our interest: Small modular nuclear reactors to generate electricity are steadily moving to market. ever produced.

Carbon Emissions

Circle of Blue

APRIL 2, 2025

In aggregate, their power demands and water consumption for cooling have increased exponentially, prompting concerns about the sustainability of data center growth in the Southwest. If the local climate is right, they can use ambient air to cool their servers. electricity use in 2023, up from 1.9%

Cooling

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Data Centers And Pennsylvania's Future [PaEN] -- Volunteers Needed! .:

Recycling

Circle of Blue

MAY 29, 2025

As a technology that produces no climate-changing gases and uses much less water to operate, this next generation of electricity-generating reactors makes a lot of sense. Our job was to explain how cooling water pumps failed and valves ignored control center commands early on March 28, 1979. and around the world.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

On April 24, the Public Utility Commission held a public hearing to explore the impact of data centers and other large load customers on the states electric grid. Michael Fradette, Principal, Energy Service s The rapid growth of electricity demand presents both challenges and opportunities for the US energy infrastructure.

Carbon Emissions

New Scientist

JUNE 11, 2025

Read more Microturbines can generate electricity from drinking water pipes Advertisement Now, Xuanhe Zhao at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues have developed a power-free water-collecting device that is about 0.5 metres tall and 0.1 This then evaporates when the sun shines on the glass panel in the day.

2029

Scientific American

JULY 10, 2025

Hotter weather puts pressure on water resources and electricity generation that help keep data centers from overheating. A recent heat wave in Europe drove power demand up 14 percent and led to power outages due to cooling problems at nuclear plants, according to Ember , a global energy think tank. It has already happened.

Cooling

Legal Planet

AUGUST 11, 2025

So, it’s no surprise that dozens of people submitted public comments on the same day as that email blast railing against the idea of replacing their gas appliances with all-electric. Nor is it surprising that dozens more signed up to voice their opposition during the meeting despite not knowing how the pilot projects would work. “I

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Luzerne County [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension: Using Live Stake Nurseries To Engage Communities In Stream Health [PaEN] -- Volunteers Needed!

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 23, 2025

For decades, this engine has powered global leadership in science and technology. Federal science investments have been crucial in developing life-saving technologies such as early warning systems for tsunamis and storms, diagnostic tests and vaccines, the early internet, and cell phones.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JULY 16, 2025

Good News In China, electric vehicle sales are currently on track to outpace gasoline car sales this year, Bloomberg reports. Bad News In China, electric vehicle sales are currently on track to outpace gasoline car sales this year. Bad News In China, electric vehicle sales are currently on track to outpace gasoline car sales this year.

Electricity

Physics World

APRIL 14, 2025

Some of these strategies are passive, such as cooling superconducting qubits with dilution refrigerators and using electric and magnetic fields to suspend ionic and atomic qubits in a vacuum. Quantum scientists have many strategies for dealing with environmental noise. Others, though, are active.

2014

Physics World

APRIL 14, 2025

Making atomically thin metals would expand this class of technologically important structures. They then continued this “vdW squeezing” until the opposite sides of the anvils cooled to room temperature and 2D sheets of metal formed. Once the metal powders melted into a droplet, the researchers applied a pressure of 200 MPa.

2004

Physics World

APRIL 14, 2025

Superconductivity is a phenomenon characterized by an abrupt drop to zero of electric resistance when certain materials are cooled below a critical temperature. Developed by physicists in Germany and France led by Henning Schlömer the new techniques could revolutionize our understanding of high-temperature superconductivity.

Cooling

Physics World

JUNE 13, 2025

As Moore explained, he and his colleagues first trap silica spheres at low pressure, before removing excess electrons to electrically neutralize them. They then stabilize the spheres’ rotation before cooling them to microkelvin temperatures.

Cooling

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

Availability has also increased , with many auto dealers offering a wide range of new and more affordable electric passenger car and pick-up truck models. Disinformation and misconceptions about electric vehicles are a major reason for this lag. some essential facts about electric vehicles in rural areas.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

But extreme heat also hits our electricity system in ways that make it more expensive, more polluting, and less reliable. Extreme heat means more expensive electricity Extreme heat can sharply increase electricity consumption as people turn up their air conditioners for relief. Here’s how. That’s the supply part.

Electricity

Physics World

JULY 28, 2025

Although they have not detected any dark matter signals yet, they note that their experiment marks the first time that magnetic levitation technology has been tested in this context, making it an important proof of concept. “By Such detectors also have a further advantage, he adds.

Technology

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Coal power, from mining to generation, is among the thirstiest and most polluting ways to produce electricity. But other low-carbon technologies do not tread as lightly. Nuclear plants hoover up enormous volumes of water for cooling, killing aquatic life and warming rivers in the process. Does it have back-up sources?

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

This is due in no small part to the “ nuclear bros ”: an active and seemingly tireless group of nuclear power advocates who dominate social media discussions on energy by promoting SMRs and other “advanced” nuclear technologies as the only real solution for the climate crisis. What are SMRs?

Nuclear Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

As electric vehicle (EV) sales continue to increase, questions about how these cars and their batteries will be disposed of have been top of mind for current owners, future buyers, policymakers, and many experts in the automotive industry. Recycling is key to making EVs greener.

Recycling

Physics World

OCTOBER 8, 2021

As the area of land covered by solar panels increases, have you ever wondered if converting all that solar energy into electricity is affecting the local environment? Both solar farms created “cool islands” that extended about 700 m from the perimeters of the facilities. You can read more about the imaging system here.

Cooling

Inhabitant

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Buildings are using more energy to cool, and urban areas are particularly vulnerable due to the urban heat island effect. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a new passive cooling device for buildings to help with this.

Cooling