Physics World

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Whether it’s lasers, nuclear power, computing or IT, one of the most exciting aspects of living through the dawn of rapidly evolving technology is that it creates a lot of jobs. Right now, there’s no better example of a burgeoning area than quantum technology and, fortunately for physicists, this is an area they are a perfect fit for.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 18, 2024

It’s in the news this week because of a trial of a new heating idea – an idea that chimes nicely with the seasonal heat storage technologies I was writing about recently. Supercomputers generate an enormous amount of heat and need to be kept cool. A new trial has just been announced that will put it to good use.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about geoengineering – the various scientific theories and governance ideas that could eventually lead to technological interventions to help cool the planet. How will governments deal with private startups if they continue to perform unscientific, unregulated experiments?

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

links Ontario residents to information about government programs that offer financial incentives for residential retrofits. Heat pumps, a simple but effective technology, use electricity to remove heat from inside your home to cool it in the summer and pull heat in from outside to heat your home in the winter.

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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.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

So why have I signed up to an initiative by senior scholars from the social sciences which might appear to be doing the same thing – in this case calling on governments to withdraw support from the development or use of solar geoengineering , without first engaging with those whose interests they claim to be defending?

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 14, 2024

For example: Water consumption: The equipment used to capture carbon generates heat and must be cooled with water. The Government of Alberta and the AER have the power to require an environmental impact assessment of the project as a whole. Individual applications for over 125 portions of the project are expected in the coming months.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

EVs are a newer technology, and their batteries require different end-of-life processing than gasoline vehicles. They connect multiple EV batteries together, along with battery monitoring and cooling technology, to create a larger battery that is about the size of a shipping container.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions. Last year, Congress passed the most ambitious climate bill ever enacted, the Inflation Reduction Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Likewise, severe summer temperatures undermine gas plant reliability by reducing their “efficiency and maximum generating capacity,” according to the report, and droughts can force plants that depend on water for cooling to cut output or completely shut down. VY: They do.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The mining company claims the spill was not toxic, while the Angolan government says it is still investigating the matter. _. But other low-carbon technologies do not tread as lightly. Nuclear plants demand enormous volumes of water for cooling, and they kill aquatic life and make rivers warmer in the process.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

When we drink a cool glass of water from the tap we may think of the local reservoir, but the real source of the water quality lies many miles upstream in the wooded watershed that filters and cleans the water as it flows downhill. As with all ambitious government initiatives, the proof will be in the implementation.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Despite huge advances in nuclear technology in recent decades, everyone still thinks about the accidents that occurred at older reactors like Chernobyl , Three Mile Island or Fukushima. Rolls-Royce sees the approach as low risk as light-water reactors are a mature technology with a proven track record. Powerful stuff.

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Physics World

MARCH 17, 2022

Science and innovation are essential ingredients for a technological revolution, but they are not enough alone. Other driving factors are the need for businesses to adopt new technology to encourage interactions between the developers and the potential end users to discover applications.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 10, 2024

Heat pumps are an amazing technology that allow people to get their homes off of fossil fuels and save money while doing so,” said Jack Gibbons, chair of Ontario Clean Air Alliance. People need to know that if they are about to install new heating and cooling equipment, they should go with a heat pump.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 8, 2022

” – Scott Faber, vice president of government affairs for Environmental Working Group. Most inland facilities cool their power-generating equipment with river water. “You can only hope now that people know and are finding alternative sources of water because those are shockingly high levels of PFAS.” More Water News.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Further, in addition to directly reducing absorbed heat, cool roofs can reduce demand for air conditioning. And where air conditioning intake air is drawn from conventional rooftops—common in larger buildings—lowering temperatures at the roof would reduce the amount of work needed to cool air.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

We’re in the midst of an escalating climate crisis, but the Ontario government is acting like the crisis isn’t happening. A new report explains how the provincial government can do just that, while also creating jobs and growing the economy. BONUS – COOL TECH ALERT! Reduced emissions! KEY RECOMMENDATIONS.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 1, 2022

government to build water infrastructure. French rivers, whose waters are often used for cooling reactors, are warming faster than usual this year, putting four major nuclear plants in southern France at risk. New air and water drone technology could help meteorologists predict hurricane intensity more accurately. 90 PERCENT.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

SG would cool the Earth, temporarily and imperfectly offsetting some of the climate effects of elevated greenhouse gases, by reflecting a bit (around 0.5% All research is governed, mostly through normal processes of peer review, research-program management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2023

Here’s a statement from the Center for International Environmental Law: Despite occupying center stage in the “net-zero” climate plans trumpeted by the United States and Canada at the Leaders’ Summit on Climate, government spending programs, and bills pending before Congress and Parliament, carbon capture is not a climate solution.

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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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Physics World

JUNE 28, 2021

The device uses waste heat from the solar cell for desalination, thereby cooling the solar cell. Evaporation and condensation through the system is governed by the vapour pressure gradient between the evaporation layer and condensation layer in each stage. Salt-free drinkable water comes at a cost.

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Physics World

MAY 6, 2021

The consortium, backed by a £10m investment that includes funding from the UK government’s Quantum Technologies Challenge, is headed by Rigetti Computing. Calling customers via the cloud: Harriet van der Vliet, product segment manager for quantum technologies at Oxford Instruments NanoScience (Courtesy: Oxford Instruments NanoScience).

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Climate Overshoot Commission is a senior independent international body, consisting of twelve distinguished individuals from around the world, including former heads of government, national ministers, and leaders of major environment, development, and civil society organizations.

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Physics World

AUGUST 23, 2021

My role there is to push the company’s technology, advise on new developments in techniques such as dilution refrigeration, and to identify opportunities in the field. Having worked with cryogenic quantum circuits and technologies for almost two decades, I’ve seen them grow dramatically during that time.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

I feel especially sorry for renters who have no choice but to pay more for gas heating and cooling because their landlords chose to connect to gas. Upfront equipment costs often beat gas as heat pumps provide both heating and cooling in one unit and the price tag can be further reduced using federal rebate programs.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 20, 2023

That burden needs to be considered against the backdrop of Energize Denver, a previously enacted Denver ordinance that will require all commercial and multifamily buildings in the city to gradually replace their heating and cooling systems with all electric. It’s a major step forward in protecting both public health and clean air.”

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As an academic, he had sounded a cautious note about government regulation, calling for more deliberation and greater consideration of costs. In one case, the Court held — in an opinion by Justice Scalia no less — that the government cannot consider cost in setting national air quality standards. Justice Breyer concurred.

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Physics World

MAY 4, 2021

Quantum-based system of units: The cold atom vacuum standard laser trapping and cooling of atomic Li in a magnetic/optical trap. Finally, he will speak on how science and research are done at a government lab such as NIST and talk about the types of partnership opportunities that NIST can offer for researchers, students and private companies.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Mine Water Geothermal There was bipartisan support for House Resolution 185 (Webster-D-Montgomery) directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study on the feasibility of using geothermal energy technologies that utilize abandoned mining locations and operations in the Commonwealth.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

As an academic, he had sounded a cautious note about government regulation, calling for more deliberation and greater consideration of costs. In one case, the Court held — in an opinion by Justice Scalia no less — that the government cannot consider cost in setting national air quality standards. Justice Breyer concurred.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Their mitigation recommendations include calls to adopt stronger national and international accountability mechanisms for emissions cuts; policy and financing innovations to promote faster deployment of zero-emissions technologies; and for countries to recognize each other’s climate policies and reflect them in trade measures.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 2, 2023

The report also identified that investments are concentrated in a few specific technologies. IRENA argues that the best way to support the energy transition is for more funds to go to less mature technologies, as well as to other sectors beyond electricity such as heating, cooling, and system integration.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 9, 2021

What’s it like being at a start-up and competing for funding in quantum technology right now? And where do you see the UK, when it comes to the global quantum technology race? The UK has been key in pioneering the quantum programme, and there was government buy-in way ahead of much of the world.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

As governments enact mandatory greenhouse gas emission laws and as businesses voluntarily make “net zero” pledges, we are increasingly working with organizations, first to understand and calculate their GHG emissions, then to implement strategies for efficacious yet frictionless reductions.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

How can we get governments to enact laws that are actually slashing energy demand ? There are questions of agency – who is responsible – and the technological problems can be mind boggingly hard to understand, let alone solve. Governments should make such steps prominent in the public life and easy to make.

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