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OCTOBER 19, 2022

Taylor, a professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. The post The Stream, October 19, 2022: California City Approaches Water Supply Peril in Next Two Months appeared first on Circle of Blue. You can’t just build in high-risk areas indefinitely and expect it to be insurable at an affordable rate.” – Zac J.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

There have been recently updated studies published of the radiological fallout impacts of atmospheric nuclear detonations and of ground bursts , and the US National Academies is currently conducting an Independent Study on Potential Environmental Effects of Nuclear War to try to improve our understanding of the risks and effects of nuclear winter, (..)

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Circle of Blue

MAY 4, 2022

An Ohio -based nonprofit creates new technology that could break down “forever chemicals” like PFAS. What’s Up With Water—May 3, 2022 – This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers two UN reports on humankind’s impact on Earth’s lands and waters, worsening food crises in the Horn of Africa, and Las Vegas’s water insurance policy.

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2023

Achieving these goals will take innovation —the development, application, diffusion, and utilization of new technologies and management practices. Water innovation can involve new treatment, reuse, and resource recovery technologies, including technologies that incorporate natural infrastructure. municipal wastewater sector.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 5, 2022

Other grants will be spent on projects to reduce gang violence, restore historic sites, and fund health technology. The post FRESH, April 5, 2022: U.S. The funding comes alongside billions expected to flow into Lansing in the recently passed federal infrastructure package. ON THE HILL: U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This demonstration of the connections between people and systems, and the need for collective solutions to complicated problems, came to mind when I read about an idea for a different real estate host technology: nuclear power plant owners seeking to bring large data centers to co-locate on their land. Modernize, or bypass, the grid?

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Physics World

APRIL 28, 2022

“Our vision at Quantum Machines is to accelerate the realisation of useful quantum computers by providing researchers and engineers with unique technology that allows them to extract the most out of their quantum devices.”

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Legal Planet

JULY 15, 2024

So in a sense, these are old technologies — about the same age as the very first internal combustion engines. But the scientific and technological advances that made these technologies competitive with fossil fuels are much more recent. Persian experts were sent by Genghis Khan to establish the technology in China.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Last month, Physics World reported on a campaign to make 2025 the official UN International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. We look forward to seeing what further milestones the USTC team (and its competitors) will pass in 2022. The post Quantum science & technology: Highlights of 2021 appeared first on Physics World.

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 11, 2022

(Credit: Canva) The 2022 Standard Scenarios, a collection of forward-looking scenarios for the electricity sector in the United States, have been made available by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Read more ».

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Physics World

JUNE 22, 2022

What’s exercising management and educators specifically is the extent to which the core expertise and domain knowledge of radiotherapy physicists should evolve to reflect – and, in so doing, best support – the relentless progress of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning technologies within the radiation oncology workflow.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

On November 4, 2022, the White House announced a new initiative to support research and development projects on 37 “game-changing” technologies to advance the Biden Administration’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. We will be tracking future funding announcements under this initiative.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This arrangement was negotiated 25 years ago and is part of a decades-old program of cooperation on nuclear technology, which includes agreements not to use this assistance for military purposes. These agreements often involve the transfer of reactor technology, supply of nuclear fuel, and training of specialists to operate the reactors.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Domestic Chinese EV sales in 2022 were 6.8 The amount of new solar capacity in 2023 was double 2022’s, and new wind capacity was up 66%. China has become the dominant manufacturer of clean energy technologies. China’s commitment to clean energy use and to producing clean tech is undeniable. million, eight times U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

They just released their 2022 “Annual Energy Outlook” (AEO), which is a big deal: it tells us where electricity is headed over the next 30 years. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022). Renewable energy generation increases faster than any other technology.

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 11, 2022

(Credit: Canva) The 2022 Standard Scenarios, a collection of forward-looking scenarios for the electricity sector in the United States, have been made available by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Read more ».

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Chinese military texts consistently use the term “strategic” to refer to other types of weapons, including conventional missiles, anti-satellite weapons, cyber weapons, and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence that Chinese decisionmakers believe may have decisive impacts in a future conflict.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But solar’s growth, especially in large arrays, has made it much more visible in communities and landscapes across the country, sparking a lot of conversations about land use, technology options, community engagement, and how best to site the many more megawatts of solar we need. Single projects can be hundreds of megawatts.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

–Sean Post, JD 2022. –Kelsey Manes, JD 2022. What makes me most optimistic are the recent technological innovations and falling costs for renewable energy generation, battery storage and alternative fuel vehicles. –Richard Diaz, Master of Public Policy candidate, 2022. –Polina Hristova, LLM 2022.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2023

As usual, I’ll begin with his League of Conservation Voters (LCV) scores — 5% in 2022, 6% lifetime. I’ve noticed that many Republicans had very low scores in 2022 — zeroes in a number of cases. electricity markets by updating grid scale technologies, which will make grid storage more widely available.”

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Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2024

The 2022 Sacramento Bee article that broke the story of the illegal Siskiyou County water diversions from the Shasta River also reported that the 2015 legislation has largely been ignored by the state’s water users. Problem solved, right? Unfortunately, no. Second, this post focuses on surface water monitoring and reporting.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

There’s good news in the recently released official data on electricity generation in the United States in 2022: renewable energy has continued to grow, coal power has continued to drop, and renewables are now firmly ahead of coal for the first time ever. percent of the 2022 generation, and small solar 1.4 It supplied 10.5

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

Part of that progress is due to the increasing dominance of more-efficient mono-crystalline technologies (the ones with smooth-looking single-crystal cells). LBNL also mentions the increasing use of passivated emitter rear-cell technology, or PERC. . Source: LBNL 2022. Source: LBNL 2022. Source: LBNL 2022.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 7, 2023

claiming he had created a compact “nano panel” (which does not exist) using “technology” that could generate triple the amount of electricity as traditional solar panels. million in a fraudulent solar power scheme. He would cold-call investors to convince them to invest in Nanotech Engineering Inc., Punishment: Pending.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In recent years, ExxonMobil has deceptively touted its “advanced recycling technology” as a proprietary “breakthrough in recycling technology,” says the complaint. But this purported breakthrough technology has been available to ExxonMobil to employ in their production operations for decades.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Research shows there are enough explored or prospective reserves to electrify the global transportation sector using current technology if a high amount of battery recycling occurs. Reserve estimations are therefore much less than total resources and fluctuate based on material value, mineral exploration, and technological development.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

Photo from August 12, 2022. What’s Up With Water—August 16, 2022 — This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers extreme heat and drought across Europe. The continent is receiving only around 12 percent of the $250 billion it needs annually to transition to greener technologies and adjust to a changing climate.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2024

Background Back in December, 2022, a group of small island nations, under the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law, submitted a request to the tribunal (pictured above in Hamburg, Germany). This includes capacity building, technology transfer, and preferential treatment in funding and technical assistance.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

While today’s carbon fiber and fiberglass require lots of energ y to produce and are hard to recycle , incorporating more bio-materials into their composites and developing new recycling technologies can reduce their footprint. Also, fortunately, the fibers and epoxies needed to make these strong synthetic materials are widely available.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

In 2022, Consumer Reports, EV Noire and Green Latinos collaborated with UCS on a national survey asking US residents in rural and urban areas if they would buy or lease an EV for their next vehicle. According to the 2022 survey, there are several factors which might explain this discrepancy.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Though manufacturers largely didn’t adopt the necessary emissions control technology to meet the NO X requirement until 2010, the 2007 standard did require new technologies to be deployed, at an increased upfront cost. Source: ERM 2022 ). Source: ERM 2022 ).

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

The Department of Energy estimates the cost of an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack declined 89% between 2008 and 2022. I don’t mean to imply that technological progress will automatically fix things. Prices for battery storage have declined even more sharply. There’s no reason to think these trends have bottomed out.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 1, 2022

The GAO assesses technologies for detecting and treating PFAS chemicals. PFAS Treatment Technologies. Policy changes at the federal level could assist with technical challenges for responding to PFAS contamination and exposure, according to a technology assessment by the Government Accountability Office. Produced by the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2024

On April 29, Max Environmental Technologies, Inc. The proposed regulation was published for comment in January 2022 when three virtual hearings were held. A final version of the regulation was discussed with DEP’s Solid Waste Advisory Committee in December 2022. Environmental Protection Agency announced. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A 1 megawatt vanadium flow battery (a different technology from lithium-ion, but also used for energy storage) is in Pullman, Washington, built by UniEnergy Technologies and owned by Avista Utilities. Source: UniEnergy Technologies / Wikimedia Commons. Engineers develop energy storage battery technologies. Batteries.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

September 20, 2022 . They disproportionately impact people that financially are at the bottom of society,” said Sinha, senior vice president of the research group Environmental Consulting & Technology. . Keith Schneider 2022-09-15 07:33:41 2022-09-15 13:11:46 In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Guest post by Mark Richardson who is a Research Scientist in the Aerosol and Clouds Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. 125008, 2022. All opinions expressed are his own and do not in any way represent those of NASA, JPL or Caltech. Should scientists choose to believe provably false things?

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