Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 3, 2024

Researchers aiming to combat rising global temperatures have developed a new ‘cooling glass’ that can turn down the heat indoors without electricity by drawing on the cold depths of space.

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Physics World

APRIL 27, 2022

Based in Helsinki, the company presented its new KIDE cooling platform at the 2022 March meeting of the American Physical Society in Chicago. Based on the Finnish word for “snowflake”, KIDE is so named because the cooling platform is hexagonal in shape.

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Physics World

JULY 2, 2021

Now, an international team of researchers has cooled the interferometers’ large mirrors close to their quantum ground state. By cooling objects massive enough to potentially feel a detectable gravitational force, the researchers hope to open a new window into gravity’s possible effects on quantum mechanics. Very cool”. “I

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Physics World

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Both solar farms created “cool islands” that extended about 700 m from the perimeters of the facilities. The cooling effect was significant, with land surface temperatures about 2 °C cooler 100 m from the edges of the solar farms. The technique involves stimulating electroluminescence using a modulated electrical current.

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Physics World

JULY 13, 2021

When water is cooled below its freezing point, molecules will quickly start to cluster around impurities in the liquid. Nucleation can be inhibited when water contains few impurities, and is left undisturbed during cooling – allowing it to maintain its liquid state even below its freezing point.

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Earth 911

JULY 12, 2021

Earth911’s Mitch Ratcliffe speaks with Yaron Ben-Nun, chief technology officer at Nostromo, which has introduced. The post Earth911 Podcast: Nostromo Wants To Cool the World With Thermal-Energy Storage appeared first on Earth911.

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Physics World

JUNE 26, 2021

Cool connection : Visualization of a cryogenic electro-optical interconnect for superconducting devices. As fibre technology improves, these benefits are increasingly being applied to data transfer over shorter distances as well, such as the connections between homes and optical fibre networks and optical connections in chip-scale devices.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Last month, Physics World reported on a campaign to make 2025 the official UN International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. The post Quantum science & technology: Highlights of 2021 appeared first on Physics World. Here are a few highlights. Quantum-secure Zoom calls (almost).

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Scientific American

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The potential of geothermal energy as a carbon-free power source is well known. Now companies such as Google are helping to unlock it

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Scientific American

JANUARY 3, 2024

A new thermal transistor can control heat as precisely as an electrical transistor can control electricity

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Scientific American

JANUARY 3, 2024

A new thermal transistor can control heat as precisely as an electrical transistor can control electricity

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Physics World

AUGUST 6, 2021

Staying on the theme of sustainability, the folks at The Quantum Daily and Oxford Instruments have put together a nice video (see below) that looks at how quantum technologies could help in the fight against climate change.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Quantum science and technology is a hot ticket today, with governments, major tech companies and financiers around the world pouring money into research and development. The problem, however, is that the concepts underlying these technologies can be fiendish to understand – even for physicists working in fields other than quantum information.

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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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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 9, 2021

Instead of supporting viable and more cost-effective clean technologies like heat pumps, Ontario is spending more than $234 million to support approximately 8750 connections – a subsidy of over $26,000 per customer. Heat pumps are cheaper to operate and also provide air-conditioning and heating in one unit.

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Frontiers

JUNE 26, 2023

As a World Economic Forum platform partner, Frontiers is collaborating with the Forum on the 2023 edition of its annual emerging technologies report. New approaches, which address this problem, have been identified among the top ten technologies listed in this year’s World Economic Forum report.

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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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Physics World

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Commissioning of the latter – a Pb-Bi eutectic-cooled and double-walled, unpressurized pool-type reactor with a maximum thermal output of 100 MW – represents the third and final phase of MYRRHA construction and is presently scheduled for 2036. So this first-of-a-kind research facility will inevitably require a unique linac capability?

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Circle of Blue

MAY 23, 2022

Residents of notoriously polluted New Delhi, where half of the population lacks access to air conditioning, describe soaking in contaminated waters to stay cool. . Cooling monsoon rains will moderate temperatures, but not for another month. The infernal temperatures marked the final straw for Pir Koh’s already strained water systems.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As part of the Cooling and Shading subprogram of the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program (RRAP), which is developing solutions to help coral reefs resist, adapt to, and recover from warming ocean temperatures, researchers in Australia have examined the effectiveness of shading on two coral species.

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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. In fact, the academic sources that this story describes as “supporters” simply support the goal of further studying geoengineering.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

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. Similarly, awareness of eco-friendly options is also low. Just 34 per cent of Ontarians have heard about electric heat pumps and know what they do.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This means that for an indefinite amount of time—depending on the cause of the outage —a home can go without electricity for lighting, heating, cooling and other needs that people depend on every day. While this doesn’t refer to any singular type of technology, energy efficiency is the ability to achieve the same result by using less energy.

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Scientific American

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A thin film can switch from releasing heat to trapping it, and wrapping it around buildings could make them more energy-efficient

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Environmental Leader

JANUARY 31, 2022

A new smart HVAC and fan system by Turntide Technologies will help industrial buildings improve on the energy demand required by heating and cooling systems. The post Smart HVAC System to Improve Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings, Says Turntide appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University There is a renewable energy revolution happening all over the world: costs for renewable energy have dropped significantly in the last 10 years and the world is starting to adopt the technology at a very fast pace. per watt [6], so the 25 watts would cost $85.50.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

As utility costs remain high, managing your baseload heating and cooling equipment can make a great difference on your operating costs. In January 2023, the Department of Energy announced new HVAC regulations, impacting both heating and cooling equipment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

Many power plants that make steam to generate electricity, including nuclear and coal plants, most gas plants, and a small number of renewable energy plants, also take a hit when their cooling water temperatures climb. Cooling centers and utility bill assistance, for example, can be lifesaving. That’s the supply part.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

Last week, MIT’s “Technology Review” reported that a small startup firm is proposing to spray reflective aerosols in the stratosphere commercially as a climate corrective. First, the cooling from the reflective materials they will inject, for which they are already selling carbon credits, charging $10 per gram of SO 2 released (!)

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

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. Rivers provide a cooling effect on nearby lands, functioning as a natural air conditioner. But water can also be part of the solution.

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

In an ever warming world, the health benefits of stadium air-conditioning may not outweigh the climate risks.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

Solar geoengineering offers a way of mitigating the effects of global warming by reflecting incoming sunlight back into space – thereby cooling the Earth. We know that this works because of the historical cooling that occurred after major volcanic eruptions, which injected vast amounts of material into the atmosphere. Longer lasting.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Guest post by Mark Richardson who is a Research Scientist in the Aerosol and Clouds Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. solar fit (thin wavy blue line) shows a cooling Sun recently, but the straight-line fit is tilted upwards by the effect of the historical wiggles.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 14, 2024

A key part of the sustainability effort is the use of geothermal technologies to help provide heating and cooling to … Continue reading Wymer Hall going geothermal to enhance sustainability Wymer Hall will be a signature facility that showcases both Gies Business’ educational excellence and commitment to sustainability.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

If cooling your house gets cheaper because you’re more energy efficiency, you might decide you can afford to keep your house even cooler. How all of this works out depends on which technologies end up in the lead, but every technology out there will require a lot of new mineral use.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The effect could someday be used to improve technologies based on ultracold atoms such as optical clocks and quantum repeaters. The observable effect of this is an increase in the transparency of the gas as it is cooled to the point where it starts to become degenerate. Famous principle. Forward scattering.

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Environmental Leader

AUGUST 12, 2021

A pioneering cold storage technology based on modular ice cells — and ready for air conditioning/cooling use by commercial and industrial buildings — is available from Nostromo; the company has raised $13.6 million for its clean energy storage system and will begin trading on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

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