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Does California Need New Nuclear Power Plants?

Union of Concerned Scientists

California had two other large reactors: Rancho Seco and San Onofre, but both suffered serious equipment failures and were shut down in 1989 and 2013, respectively. The cost of other energy technologies matters as well. Second, as I mentioned earlier, the cost of other clean energy technologies matters too.

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What you need to know before investing in quantum technology

Physics World

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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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

A 2022 study in Environmental Science and Technology detected more than 20 volatile organic compounds, including hexane, toluene and benzene, in unburned stove gas. In rebuttal, AGA and APGA cited a 2013 Lancet study investigating the association between different cooking fuels and childhood asthma in 47 countries.

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How not to science

Real Climate

It’s a fascinating story of technology, creativity, hubris, error, imagination, rivalry, politics, and (for some) a search for scientific consilience – worthy of movie script perhaps? Instead, they chose to hide the structural uncertainty in the MSU retrievals (the TMT trends for 1979-2013 in UAH v5.5 and RSS v3.3

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How the Netherlands is forging ahead in quantum technologies

Physics World

In 2013 – as head of strategy at the ministry – I visited the University of Technology in Delft to hear about their plans to start a quantum institute. We bridge the gap between fundamental research and business, especially for start-ups that are taking quantum technology out of the lab and into people’s lives.

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Chief Editor of Nanodevices receives 2021 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists for pioneering memristive technology

Frontiers

The award recognizes Prof Prodomakis’ contribution to memristive technology and viable applications in the electronics industry. His technology is based on electronic components that can ‘remember’ the amount of charge that has passed through it. Professor Themis Prodromakis. 2017 Industry Fellowship, Royal Society.

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New, Updated Carbon Majors Dataset Holds Promise for Researchers, Litigators

Union of Concerned Scientists

That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities.