Legal Planet
APRIL 3, 2023
Energy efficiency standards for new appliances and lighting sources. Nuclear power regulation D. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rules bearing on electricity transmission E. FERC rules for wholesale markets that impact renewable energy. FERC pipeline regulation (natural gas and hydrogen).
Physics World
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Renewable energy sources are perhaps the most obvious of these, and the transition to them is already under way. “I Hari Chohan , nuclear radiation analyst, UK Atomic Energy Authority. Another relevant area in which many physicists work is nuclear energy, both fission and fusion. Courtesy: UKAEA). “I
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Physics World
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Those findings might surprise physicists, who will be aware that the energy density of nuclear fission is so high that just a fingertip of uranium has an energy equivalent of 5000 barrels of oil. In it, we emphasize that nuclear is not only a low-carbon source of energy, but is also widely available, scalable and deployable.
Global Green
DECEMBER 3, 2020
A significant portion of the energy from gasoline is converted to unwanted heat. You’ll feel the loss of energy. That’s why gas-powered cars need complex and expensive radiator systems with their associated belts, pipes, and heat exchangers. EVs will continue to get greener as the power grid gets greener.
Environmental Progress
JANUARY 20, 2022
Whereas the existing criteria require that the transitional activity does not hamper the development and deployment of low-carbon alternatives (such as wind, solar or nuclear) the current proposal has no such restriction in function. For example, the title of section 4.27 reads (our emphasis): “4.27.
Environmental Science
AUGUST 7, 2018
Responsible for nuclear physics which has given us nuclear power, and nuclear medicine which has opened up new avenues of medical treatment for such things as cancer. Renewable energy : The contribution of physics to the environmental sciences is no better demonstrated than in the development of renewable energy.
Environmental Progress
AUGUST 3, 2020
It’d be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of cheap, clean, and abundant energy,” said the Malthusian advocate of renewable energy, Amory Lovins, in a 1970 interview, “because of what we would do with it.” The whole point of referring to Hiroshima was to raise the specter of nuclear weapons explosion.
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