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China Powers AI Boom with Undersea Data Centers

Scientific American

This June construction began on a wind-powered underwater data center about six miles off the coast of Shanghai, one of China’s AI hubs. Keeping Data Centers Cool Data centers store information and perform complex calculations for businesses, whose increasing automation is steadily ramping up such needs.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

18 Planet Philadelphia Radio Program Provides Updates On Wind Power, Local Green Energy Efforts -- PA Wilds Center: PA Wilds Makers Market On Oct. 17 -- Williamsport Sun: Oct. 17 National Hiking Day At Rider Park Will Offer Beautiful Views -- Oct. 19 In Cameron County -- CleanScapes, Partners Hold Oct. 22 , 1:00 p.m.

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189 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

18 Planet Philadelphia Radio Program Provides Updates On Wind Power, Local Green Energy Efforts -- Community Advocates For Clean Energy Host Nov. Families Left With Unanswered Questions After Natural Gas Leak Complaints From 70 Homes -- WPXI: Small Natural Gas Leaks Found In More Than 30 Homes In Cranberry Twp.,

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China displays low-carbon tech at the Winter Olympics?

A Greener Life

Natural CO2 refrigeration at the ice rinks to 100% renewables-powered venues are just some of the technologies implemented. 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.

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Analysis: Can Inner Mongolia reach peak carbon this decade?

A Greener Life

It could then explore local heating systems, using waste heat from factories and power plants rather than building new boilers. Wind and solar power can provide green electricity for those facilities, while the low local temperatures can help with cooling requirements.

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Physics: The Science of the Universe and Everything In It

Environmental Science

Typical applications include examining star formation (astronomy), ocean oscillations and forcings (meteorology and environmental science), how wind turbines function and can harness wind power ( environmental engineering ), seismological activity. Future Challenges and Opportunities for Physics. Climate Change Mitigation.

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Ask a Scientist: The US Has to Do More to Meet Its Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals

Union of Concerned Scientists

The IRA and current state policies recognize this fact by including incentives for consumers and businesses to purchase electric vehicles and replace inefficient gas, oil, and propane boilers, furnaces, and water heaters with highly efficient electric heat pumps, which also provide cooling in the summer.