Physics World

JULY 13, 2021

When water is cooled below its freezing point, molecules will quickly start to cluster around impurities in the liquid. Nucleation can be inhibited when water contains few impurities, and is left undisturbed during cooling – allowing it to maintain its liquid state even below its freezing point.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

But other low-carbon technologies do not tread as lightly. Nuclear plants hoover up enormous volumes of water for cooling, killing aquatic life and warming rivers in the process. Rivers provide a cooling effect on nearby lands, functioning as a natural air conditioner. But water can also be part of the solution.

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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. The post Quantum science & technology: Highlights of 2021 appeared first on Physics World. Here are a few highlights. Quantum-secure Zoom calls (almost).

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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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Physics World

APRIL 27, 2022

Based in Helsinki, the company presented its new KIDE cooling platform at the 2022 March meeting of the American Physical Society in Chicago. Based on the Finnish word for “snowflake”, KIDE is so named because the cooling platform is hexagonal in shape.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 6, 2022

million to help expand the deployment of geothermal heating and cooling technology at federal sites. Installing these carbon-free … Continue reading DOE invests $6 million in geothermal heating and cooling technologies at federal facilities.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about geoengineering – the various scientific theories and governance ideas that could eventually lead to technological interventions to help cool the planet. In fact, the academic sources that this story describes as “supporters” simply support the goal of further studying geoengineering.

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Physics World

JUNE 1, 2022

Physicists in the US have created ultracold polyatomic molecules by trapping and cooling them directly in three dimensions. By showing that direct laser cooling is possible, the result opens the door to experiments in molecule-based quantum simulation and studies of chemical reactions involving polyatomic molecules. Cooling stages.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

Last week, MIT’s “Technology Review” reported that a small startup firm is proposing to spray reflective aerosols in the stratosphere commercially as a climate corrective. First, the cooling from the reflective materials they will inject, for which they are already selling carbon credits, charging $10 per gram of SO 2 released (!)

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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. solar fit (thin wavy blue line) shows a cooling Sun recently, but the straight-line fit is tilted upwards by the effect of the historical wiggles.

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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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Physics World

JUNE 26, 2021

Cool connection : Visualization of a cryogenic electro-optical interconnect for superconducting devices. As fibre technology improves, these benefits are increasingly being applied to data transfer over shorter distances as well, such as the connections between homes and optical fibre networks and optical connections in chip-scale devices.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

This is due in no small part to the “ nuclear bros ”: an active and seemingly tireless group of nuclear power advocates who dominate social media discussions on energy by promoting SMRs and other “advanced” nuclear technologies as the only real solution for the climate crisis.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This means redoubling efforts to cut emissions, and reliably constrain temperature rises, not gambling on speculative technological interventions to cool the planet. Or low-carbon energy from renewable energy systems rather than nuclear power, with its needs for cooling water. C, we must plan on the basis of the lower threshold.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 9, 2021

Instead of supporting viable and more cost-effective clean technologies like heat pumps, Ontario is spending more than $234 million to support approximately 8750 connections – a subsidy of over $26,000 per customer. Heat pumps are cheaper to operate and also provide air-conditioning and heating in one unit.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

I felt the same contrast as I stood at the foot of Sperry Glacier, feeling both the heat of the sun and the cool breeze blowing over the ice, and I was struck by the reality of the glaciers’ vulnerability. The prediction that all of the park’s glaciers could be gone by 2030 felt painfully real as we looked out over the landscape.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

EVs are a newer technology, and their batteries require different end-of-life processing than gasoline vehicles. They connect multiple EV batteries together, along with battery monitoring and cooling technology, to create a larger battery that is about the size of a shipping container.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 2, 2021

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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Earth 911

JULY 12, 2021

Earth911’s Mitch Ratcliffe speaks with Yaron Ben-Nun, chief technology officer at Nostromo, which has introduced. The post Earth911 Podcast: Nostromo Wants To Cool the World With Thermal-Energy Storage appeared first on Earth911.

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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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Scientific American

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The potential of geothermal energy as a carbon-free power source is well known. Now companies such as Google are helping to unlock it

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Commissioning of the latter – a Pb-Bi eutectic-cooled and double-walled, unpressurized pool-type reactor with a maximum thermal output of 100 MW – represents the third and final phase of MYRRHA construction and is presently scheduled for 2036. So this first-of-a-kind research facility will inevitably require a unique linac capability?

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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. 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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Physics World

AUGUST 6, 2021

Staying on the theme of sustainability, the folks at The Quantum Daily and Oxford Instruments have put together a nice video (see below) that looks at how quantum technologies could help in the fight against climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

There are two types of solar technology for electricity generation. Another technology, concentrating solar power (CSP) , uses the sun’s heat instead. That technology accounts for 84% of US solar panels , according to the US Department of Energy. The most common type of PV panel is made using crystalline-silicon (c-SI).

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Physics World

JUNE 18, 2022

BECs form when a gas of bosonic atoms is cooled to ultracold temperatures. In 2013, Schreck and colleagues, then at Austria’s Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information and the University if Innsbruck, created the first BEC by the laser cooling of atoms rather than evaporative cooling. Two-stage process.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

technology – semiconductor junctions, transistors, lasers and so on. technology, which taps into phenomena like superposition and entanglement to permit everything from quantum computing and cryptography to quantum sensing, timing and imaging. technology, which taps into phenomena like superposition and entanglement.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2024

They could cool the Earth on average but not precisely undo the patterns of disruption from GHGs. After all, it is generally not a good idea to bet against extreme progress in technological capabilities, certainly not over decades. More on this paper in coming blog posts.) But no such capability exists now.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO)Partnerships to Accelerate Training & Hiring for Geothermal Heat Pumps (GHP PATHs) Prize aims to kickstart regional partnerships focused on building a stronger workforce for geothermal heat pumps (GHPs), which is necessary to help expand the use of GHPs for efficient heating and cooling nationwide.

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Real Climate

MARCH 5, 2023

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? Remember ‘satellite cooling’?]. A trip down memory lane and a lesson on scientific integrity.

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Cresforum

MAY 23, 2024

The rocks are then crushed, ground, superheated in a kiln, cooled and rolled before it is finally ready for transport. 7685, the Innovative Mitigation Partnerships for Asphalt and Concrete Technologies (IMPACT) Act, introduced by Rep. The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, chaired by Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.),

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

Many power plants that make steam to generate electricity, including nuclear and coal plants, most gas plants, and a small number of renewable energy plants, also take a hit when their cooling water temperatures climb. Cooling centers and utility bill assistance, for example, can be lifesaving. That’s the supply part.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2024

Click Here to sign up for your own copy. For more information on programs, training opportunities and upcoming events, visit the Susquehanna River Basin Commission website.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 30, 2024

Consequently, federal and state governments are seeking to regulate their use, which could mean … Continue reading Phononic’s new cooling technology reduces grocery store emissions

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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. Forward scattering.

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