Physics World

OCTOBER 8, 2021

As the area of land covered by solar panels increases, have you ever wondered if converting all that solar energy into electricity is affecting the local environment? Both solar farms created “cool islands” that extended about 700 m from the perimeters of the facilities. You can read more about the imaging system here.

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Inhabitant

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Buildings are using more energy to cool, and urban areas are particularly vulnerable due to the urban heat island effect. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a new passive cooling device for buildings to help with this.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Solar panels generated almost 4 percent of electricity in the US in 2021, up from less than 1 percent in 2015. In some places that number is much higher; for example, 17% of California’s electricity generation came from solar in 2021. Even more encouraging, by 2030, the solar industry aims to generate nearly a third of US electricity.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

February 10, 2025 Cutting edge technology applied to energy development, geography, and species assessments is a path to achieving more security for water supply. Some intriguing initiatives this week that caught our interest: Small modular nuclear reactors to generate electricity are steadily moving to market. ever produced.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions. It also will save US consumers money because they will spend less on fossil fuels.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Without electricity or heat, some people apparently turned to portable generators, which can fill a home with carbon monoxide exhaust. This means that for an indefinite amount of time—depending on the cause of the outage —a home can go without electricity for lighting, heating, cooling and other needs that people depend on every day.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2025

And how can we provide job opportunities for the tremendously skilled workers in traditional energy domains while also training the workers we need to accelerate emerging technologies? New and emerging geothermal technologies allow us to tap into and extract the earths naturally occurring heat in ways that were not possible a decade ago.

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Physics World

JUNE 28, 2021

A device that can generate electricity while desalinating seawater has been developed by researchers in Saudi Arabia and China, who claim that their new system is highly efficient at performing both tasks. The device uses waste heat from the solar cell for desalination, thereby cooling the solar cell.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

If cooling your house gets cheaper because you’re more energy efficiency, you might decide you can afford to keep your house even cooler. In the end, you might use more electricity, not less. How all of this works out depends on which technologies end up in the lead, but every technology out there will require a lot of new mineral use.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 3, 2024

A new thermal transistor can control heat as precisely as an electrical transistor can control electricity

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Scientific American

JANUARY 3, 2024

A new thermal transistor can control heat as precisely as an electrical transistor can control electricity

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Physics World

JUNE 26, 2021

Cool connection : Visualization of a cryogenic electro-optical interconnect for superconducting devices. Using an optical signal instead of an all-electrical approach addresses the high heat-load contribution of electrical components, which is known to reduce the overall efficiency of devices. Courtesy: Amir Youssefi, EPFL).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Gas, which now generates 40 percent of US electricity, is considered by some to be critical to maintain grid reliability. For example, Dominion Energy, an electric and gas utility in Virginia, is planning to build a mammoth 1,000-megawatt gas plant in an area with a high percentage of residents who are people of color and low-income.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This marked a career shift toward direct climate and equity advocacy, where I could use my background in electrical engineering to more directly tackle the climate challenges threatening our planet’s critical resources, including the glaciers I would soon visit.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Project Cirrus,” a joint project of the US military and General Electric researchers, tried to disrupt and weaken one 1947 hurricane by seeding its eyewall clouds to increase rainout and destabilize its structure. They could cool the Earth on average but not precisely undo the patterns of disruption from GHGs.

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Energy and Climate Law

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Report to the H2020 POCITYF-project A substantial part of energy in the EU is consumed by households , for powering electric appliances and for heating and cooling. Positive energy districts are districts in which energy (in the form of electricity or heat) is shared between different users in the same district.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

As electric vehicle charging stations sprout like mushrooms along our roads and clusters of new wind turbines come online, these two clean energy solutions to the climate crisis are becoming more commonplace. But beyond more electric cars and solar panels, what can everyday people do?

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Rate design has been a site of experimentation and contestation since the earliest days of electricity provisioning. In the earliest days of electricity provisioning, fixed charges were common in residential rates due to the limits of metering technology.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Whether it’s lasers, nuclear power, computing or IT, one of the most exciting aspects of living through the dawn of rapidly evolving technology is that it creates a lot of jobs. Right now, there’s no better example of a burgeoning area than quantum technology and, fortunately for physicists, this is an area they are a perfect fit for.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

However, homes with energy efficiency retrofits can retain cool or warm air longer , while simultaneously saving money throughout normal yearly temperature fluctuations. Sealing air leaks can be as easy as caulking around your windows or installing foam gaskets around areas where plumbing and electrical enters walls.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Further, the going price of gas can be volatile and generally tracks very closely with US wholesale electricity prices, since the country grew so over-reliant on gas power plants throughout the 2010s. Last year, for the first time ever, US renewable electricity generation surpassed coal-fired electricity generation.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The effect could someday be used to improve technologies based on ultracold atoms such as optical clocks and quantum repeaters. The observable effect of this is an increase in the transparency of the gas as it is cooled to the point where it starts to become degenerate. Famous principle. Degenerate gases. Forward scattering.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

Whatever the weather in March and beyond—in-like-a-lion blustery or out-like-a-lamb sunny—spring tends to be a season of strong electricity production from solar and wind in particular. Spring is also a glorious time for taking stock, since the official data on the previous year’s US electricity generation become available.

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Physics World

JANUARY 30, 2022

The researchers suggest future work should focus on increasing the reflectance of wavelengths of sunlight not converted to electricity. Specifically, we found that photovoltaics can significantly warm the urban environment during the day, but typically cool the urban environment at night. What research did you include in your study?

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 3, 2025

Preparing the workforce for decarbonization is just as crucial as deploying zero-emission technologies. Collaboration among industry, government and educational institutions should also be used to create comprehensive training programs that align with emerging port technologies and regulatory requirements.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

Regardless of where we live, we should all have the opportunity to enjoy the benefits provided by electric vehicles. These benefits range from the reduced cost of operation , the reduced need for maintenance and the improved performance, to the fact that electric vehicles have no tailpipe emissions.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Despite huge advances in nuclear technology in recent decades, everyone still thinks about the accidents that occurred at older reactors like Chernobyl , Three Mile Island or Fukushima. Germany, for example, closed three of its six remaining nuclear plants on 31 December 2021, which together accounted for 6% of the country’s electricity.

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Physics World

AUGUST 25, 2021

An ultra-precise quantum sensor based on trapped beryllium ions is up to 20 times better at detecting weak electric fields than previous atomic devices. With further improvements, the technology could even be used in the search for dark matter. With this capability, the experiment can then measure electric fields very precisely.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

China is intent on using the Winter Olympics to showcase how they’re at the forefront of implementing low-carbon technologies and thereby tackling climate change. Natural CO2 refrigeration at the ice rinks to 100% renewables-powered venues are just some of the technologies implemented. Cooling ice rinks. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Green Bang

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In the US alone, consumers spend around $350 billion annually on electricity, with three-quarters of this energy going to waste. Similarly, the shift towards electric heating solutions, such as heat pumps, will increase electricity demand during peak heating periods.

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Physics World

JUNE 13, 2021

When particles are cooled down to temperatures just above absolute zero, they form a BEC – a state of matter in which all the particles occupy the same quantum state and thus act in unison, like a superfluid. The team cooled the system to 4 K and stimulated it with short pulses of laser light to produce excitons in the MoSe 2.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University There is a renewable energy revolution happening all over the world: costs for renewable energy have dropped significantly in the last 10 years and the world is starting to adopt the technology at a very fast pace. per watt [6], so the 25 watts would cost $85.50.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 2, 2025

Ironically, Germany also imports nuclear-produced electricity from France. In 2024, the demand for coal reached new heights due to the worlds increasing appetite for more electricity capacity. China diversified its electricity sector in 2024 in line with the countrys long-term trajectory of adding more renewables and nuclear.

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Physics World

APRIL 27, 2022

Our capacity to generate electrical energy using wind and solar energy is growing in leaps and bounds, but our ability to store this energy has not kept pace. To develop a better storage technology, Li and colleagues explored the use of molten salt as a battery electrolyte. Reduced mobility.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

At the module level, cooling and barriers between cells can help keep thermal runaway and heating in one cell from spreading to others. Battery storage systems are required to obey all relevant building and electrical codes. Battery storage is a relatively new, rapidly developing technology.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Does the climate keep warming, stay the same, or even cool? But despite all of this, I’m actually less concerned about backlash now than I was ten years ago – the reason is the remarkable drop in cost over that decade for the technologies we need to decarbonize our economy , such as renewable electricity generation, and electric vehicles.

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