Circle of Blue

JUNE 7, 2022

Most inland facilities cool their power-generating equipment with river water. But when river temperatures climb too high, the water is too warm for cooling purposes and the waste heat expelled by the facility endangers fish and other aquatic life.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

A combined-cycle gas plant might have an efficiency of 60 percent , while a gas peaker plant might be 20- to 35-percent efficient—that is, waste as much as 80 percent of the energy in its fuel. Cooling centers and utility bill assistance, for example, can be lifesaving. Even plants with the same fuel might use it differently.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 22, 2022

People want to stay comfortable without wasting energy and money. Maybe your household has fought over the best strategy for cooling your space. Which is more efficient: … Continue reading Does turning the air conditioning off when you’re not home actually save energy?

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Read the full story at Waste Dive. Terrill Haigler, a former Philadelphia sanitation worker, has become a rising star in the waste world. He discusses a new children’s book, “I’m Cool Too,” and how street cleanliness is an EJ issue.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

“Some of the earliest memories I have are of protestors standing in the road, blocking semi-trucks hauling nuclear waste.”. — Mikhail Childs, Prairie Island Indian C ommunity member. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has declared the plant to be safe, tribe members remain worried about their proximity to nuclear waste. While the U.S.

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Onya

MARCH 25, 2020

Why be concerned about food storage and food waste? According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), if food waste was a country it would be the third highest emitter of greenhouse gases. billion tonnes, is wasted annually. Food Storage Tips To Reduce Waste. Plan Ahead To Avoid Food Waste.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

After doing some extensive research on the issue she discovered that the bees use water to control their body temperatures as well as diluting honey for their young and even cooling their hive through evaporative cooling. It is produced in the US with locally sourced materials.

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Physics World

MARCH 31, 2022

This achievement paves the way for alternative radioisotope production methods using electron accelerators that do not require enriched uranium and produce little nuclear waste. The approach requires no enriched uranium and produces hardly any long-lived radioactive waste. Medical radioisotopes.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

New calculations of the heating and cooling effects of airborne microplastics reveal that the overall influence on climate is strongly dependent on the distribution of microplastics in the atmosphere – which is currently poorly understood. Microplastics are turning up everywhere.

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Physics World

MAY 16, 2022

The water molecules between the layers are easily lost through heating, and the team used X-ray diffractometry and transmission electron microscopy to study how the material’s structure changed as it heated or cooled. Fast and reversible transformation. The team found that the water disappeared when the material was heated to 200°C.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 17, 2021

According to a preprint on the arXiv server, the team cooled a tardigrade to below 10 mK and then used it as the dielectric in a capacitor that itself was part of a superconducting transmon qubit. Do not throw the products away with your household waste,” says the agency, adding that the items “contain radioactive materials or waste”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

For example, they may need to choose between cooling down with their windows open at night or breathing polluted air, as residents often don’t have air conditioners or the economic capacity to pay for higher electricity bills. Climate change amplifies air quality problems.

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HumanNature

MAY 1, 2024

Each year, millions of tons of textile waste are discarded, their vibrant colors dulled by the harsh sun, their once-cherished fabrics slowly decomposing. Here, individuals and businesses like the Zero Waste Team and Patchwork Initiative at Colorado State University (CSU) and Create Good Co.

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Physics World

JUNE 8, 2022

In fact, the recipe can be simpler still, for we now know that almost any material can turn glassy if it is cooled from its liquid state so fast that its atoms or molecules are arrested before they have a chance to form a well-ordered solid state. As a liquid cools, it can either harden into a glass, or crystallize. Perfect solution?

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Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Together, yard debris and food waste account for nearly 30% of the materials disposed in U.S. Composting enables you to turn organic waste — items such as leaves, fruit peels, food scraps, coffee grounds and more — into a resource that can help nourish your soil and spruce up your yard. This will help the waste break down.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Cooling ice rinks. For the first time at any Olympics, China is using CO2, collected from industrial waste gases, to cool ice rinks in its four ice sports venues. Natural CO2 refrigeration at the ice rinks to 100% renewables-powered venues are just some of the technologies implemented.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 9, 2021

Instead, even after the subsidy, customers will need to pay thousands of dollars out of pocket to switch to gas furnaces, and will lose out on new federal rebates for clean heating and cooling systems. But the answer is not to waste public dollars to build expensive gas pipelines that will exacerbate climate change for decades.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

Organic waste sent to landfills emits CH4. Homes and commercial buildings use large amounts of energy for heating, cooling, lighting, and otherwise. Waste management. When solid waste decomposes in landfills, it creates landfill gas, which is primarily comprised of CO2 and CH4.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Green parking lots can reverse those trends by creating a landscape that not only improves the aesthetics and safety of a site, but also intercepts stormwater runoff and allows infiltration, shades parked cars and paved surfaces, and helps to cool the surrounding environment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

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. For stationary storage, companies such as RePurpose Energy and B2U Storage Solutions are repurposing these batteries to be used for renewable energy generation support.

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Physics World

AUGUST 6, 2021

When a blade reaches the end of its lifetime, the wood is often discarded and even burnt – which is a waste of a valuable resource. The video also looks at way of reducing the energy consumption of quantum technologies themselves – which at the moment can be very large, especially for devices that must be cooled to near absolute zero.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2023

Today the waters cool the nearby Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Russian forces currently occupy the location, which for 70 years has provided drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people and irrigation for 200,000 hectares of sunflowers, grains, and vegetables.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2022

Even if you stand there sweating for an hour or more, it’s a complete waste of time — you need the water to get to the roots of those little seedlings, instead of weighing down the foliage, leading to rot. You’ll get much more water to the root zone, with almost no evaporation or waste. Mulch keeps the soil cool and slows evaporation.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The fact that it is sustainable, sourced from natural products produces minimal waste and emissions, is carbon neutral – and has a second life as plants only adds to its proponents. The green and second life element On the back of this, how do we make it cool to use a pencil again? How useful is it?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 657 ) -- Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC - Wastewater Storage: DEP issued a WMGR163 General Waste Permit for the facility located in Franklin Twp., PA Bulletin, page 686 ) -- PennEnergy Resources, LLC - Reno Well Pad: DEP issued a WMGR123 General Waste Permit for the facility located in Middlesex Twp., Bradford County. (

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

Some SMR designs, such as NuScale, are modified versions of operating water-cooled reactors, while others are radically different designs that use coolants other than water, such as liquid sodium, helium gas, or even molten salts. SMRs will not reduce the problem of what to do with radioactive waste.

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Physics World

JUNE 1, 2022

As Jon Cartwright explores in “The many secrets of glass”, physicists are still trying to work out how, for example, a cooling liquid can form a hard glass without any distinct structural changes. Rachel Brazil investigates. • The glass that offers hope – James Dacey talks to Ukrainian stained-glass artist and architect Oksana Kondratyeva.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

KUOW reports that the glacier was one of four to flow into the Skykomish River, providing the basin, and its fish and fishermen, with cool water in hot, dry summers. According to the AP, citizens say that a lack of affordable sanitation systems forces them to dump their waste into the river.

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Physics World

MARCH 22, 2022

Yet these devices – like tokamaks – still have to remove waste heat from the fusion reactions. They do this by magnetically directing plasma particles to “divertors”, which transfer the heat to cooling water. These cool parts of the plasma by virtue of separating them from the rest of the hot plasma.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2023

Western PA Experts Weigh In Ohio/PA Train Derailment -- The Center Square: Support Remains As PA Closes Train Derailment Resources Health Center -- PA Capital-Star: Ohio/PA Train Derailment Was ‘H.G.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Extreme heat is not just an abstract notion: if we can’t cool our bodies enough, we’re in danger of neurological failure, organ failure and even death, with the risks highest for children and the elderly. On balance, clouds nearer the stratosphere warm us, whereas low-lying clouds tend to cool us because their greenhouse effect is smaller.

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Physics World

JUNE 22, 2022

But surprisingly, ancient glass is also being studied by another group of scientists – those who are finding safe ways to store nuclear waste. But the idea to transform nuclear waste into glass, or vitrify it, was developed as far back as the 1970s, as a way to keep the radioactive elements locked away and prevent them from leaking out.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2024

Waste Permits -- Range Resources-Appalachia, LLC - Littell Bend Storage Tank Pad: DEP invites comments on an application for coverage under the WMGR123 General Waste Permit for a 714,000 gallon oil and gas wastewater storage tank at a facility located in Hanover Twp., Beaver County. ( Washington County. ( Montour County. (

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2024

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 3899 ) Waste Permits -- Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC - Wastewater Storage Facility: DEP invites comments on an application it received for coverage under WMGR163 Residual Waste General Permit for a facility to be located in Franklin Twp., Lycoming County. ( Bradford County. ( Delaware County. ( Bradford County. (

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

Includes wood, wood waste, wood liquors, peat, railroad ties, wood sludge, spent sulfite liquors, agricultural waste, straw, tires, fish oils, tall oil, sludge waste, waste alcohol, municipal solid waste, landfill gases, other waste, and ethanol blended into motor gasoline.

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Cleannovate

JULY 7, 2021

We might say that sanitary systems take care of the waste. These water filters could be tailor-made into dispensers which are able to cool or heat water depending on the needs of the family. Of greater importance are pollutants which have been found in our tap water and attract attention like no other. PHARMACEUTICALS. CONCLUSION.

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