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How the Netherlands is forging ahead in quantum technologies

Physics World

I graduated from the Technical University of Delft’s Policy Analysis and Systems Engineering department in 1999 and after a two-year stint at KPN Research as a consultant, I joined the Ministry of Economic Affairs as an adviser in 2002. My role is to foster the best ecosystem for quantum technology development. How will that be spent?

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Solar Geoengineering in the News — Again and Again

Legal Planet

After publicity of their announcement provoked a statement of disavowal from the Government of Mexico, they subsequently relocated to Reno, Nevada. This new phase continues a small (about $10M/year) research program authorized by Congress since 2002, and follows a prior phase of modeling and balloon observations.

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Danger Looms Where Toxic Algae Blooms

Circle of Blue

Just as with climate change, local, state, provincial, and national governments in Canada and the United States have collaborated with science agencies, universities, and non-profit groups to develop effective responses, especially for Lake Erie. That was 200,000 more acres than in 2002, when the USDA began tracking that data.

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At Peak of Its Wealth and Influence, Arizona’s Desert Civilization Confronts A Reckoning Over Water

Circle of Blue

Instead it begins with this: A brief on how adept engineering for dams and aqueducts, government subsidy, technological development for pumps and water recycling, surpassing marketing, and an advantageous assemblage of natural resources – sun, warmth, blue sky, and open spaces – produced one of the greatest desert civilizations in human history. .

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Life beyond the Nobel: Takaaki Kajita and the hunt for gravitational waves

Physics World

The work led him to sharing the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics for the detection of cosmic neutrinos. The role of the SCJ is to make recommendations to the government and wider society about certain issues. Neutrino pionner: Takaaki Kajita (Courtesy: ICRR). In 2020 he was nominated by the other SCJ members as its president. “I

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Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

The growing credits for electricity reflect the growing number of EVs on the road in California, and support California’s goal of phasing out combustion technologies in favor of zero emissions vehicles. California’s LCFS is causing problems for other states and the federal government.

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PA Mine Map Atlas Has Served State Since The Quecreek Mine Rescue In Somerset County

PA Environment Daily

In July 2002, in the Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, miners accidentally breached the wall of an adjacent abandoned, flooded mine. Some maps were kept at PA DEP as well as mining companies, some at local government offices, some at academic institutions and even some in people's attics,” Kelly said.

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