Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rules bearing on electricity transmission E. Electric vehicle and biofuel policies E. Solar radiation management If I’ve missed something you think is really important to US climate policy, I guess that only goes to prove my point about the breadth and depth of the field.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2024

The Public Utility Commission published notice in the June 1 PA Bulletin making available the final policy statement establishing guidelines for the use of electricity storage by electric distribution companies (EDC). Documents related to this policy can be found at PUC Docket No.: M-2020-3022877.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

David Allard, Director of DEP’s Bureau of Radiation Protection, will lead the presentation providing an overview of the decontamination and decommissioning process and how Pennsylvania and DEP are involved. Photo: Radiation contamination at oil and gas wastewater treatment site.) Posted: October 8, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Chris Johnston is co-author of The Arrival of the Electric Car – An Overview of the EV Revolution Happening Now. The fastest way to shift the transportation sector to environmental sustainability is to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). Electric energy generation by renewable sources has doubled since 2008.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 24, 2021

An electromagnetic analogue for a black hole laser – a system that could theoretically amplify Hawking radiation from the event horizon of a black hole and make it observable – has been proposed by Haruna Katayama of Hiroshima University in Japan. The radiation emitted would be masked by the radiation absorbed and be unobservable.

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Physics World

JUNE 7, 2021

Devices known as optical rectennas show considerable promise for renewable energy because they can harvest energy from heat and convert it into electricity. Rectennas (short for rectifying antennas) consist of two parts: an antenna, which absorbs electromagnetic radiation, and a diode, which converts the absorbed energy into direct current.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The forces are mediated by electromagnetic radiation, and they could explain how molecules find their targets inside the crowded interiors of living cells. One possible explanation is electrostatic attraction, but mobile ions in the cell cytoplasm would screen out static electric fields over ranges longer than 100 nm.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 17, 2022

Against the backdrop of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Salar de Atacama Mine radiates with a futuristic blue light—its cerulean pools glow like tessellated computer screens, a stark contrast to the muted landscape that surrounds them. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — January 17, 2022.

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Physics World

APRIL 7, 2022

These accelerators can supply high-quality particle beams for radiobiological studies that will help scientists better understand how radiation leads to DNA damage, and ultimately, help optimize particle-based cancer treatments. Intense radiation pressure enables selective acceleration of carbon ion beams.

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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. And the photovoltaic panels then do convert some of that energy to electricity, but typical panels today are only maybe 16–20% efficient. Why was there a need for a systematic review like this?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2024

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The conference will feature sessions on health studies, radiation and waste, water resources and contamination, plastics and hydrogen, and community outreach. 27 - Shale Gas And Public Health Conference, Duquesne University [PaEN] [Posted: December 16, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2023

Radiation Levels Prompt Tank Decontamination On June 28, DEP inspected the Sensinger shale gas well pad operated by Chesapeake Appalachia LLC in Franklin Township, Bradford in response to a notification that over 800 gallons of production wastewater was released over a 10 day period on the well pad.

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Physics World

MAY 25, 2021

D’oh: simulation of infrared radiation from a heat source being blocked by an object shaped like the head of Homer Simpson (left). Although further work is needed to demonstrate the technique in the lab, it could lead to better ways of protecting electrical circuits from heat damage. Courtesy: Fernando Guevara Vasquez).

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Physics World

JUNE 6, 2022

Recent innovations of computer calculation and artificial intelligence in radiotherapy resulted in rapid advancements in various aspects in cancer treatment such as treatment planning, patient-specific quality assurance, radiation dosimetry, and education for patients and radiation staff. Speaker relationship with IOP Publishing.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Of Environmental Professionals Host Dec. 22 Webinar On New Guidebook For Municipalities On Large-Scale Solar Development [PaEN] -- MCall: Lehigh Valley Success Presents Climate Change Challenges We Will Meet Head-On - By Lehigh Valley Planning Commission -- Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2024

On January 12, the PJM Interconnection declared ‘Conservative Operations’ to maintain electric grid reliability forced by natural gas pipeline fuel restrictions brought on by winter weather impacts on their operations. When PJM declares Conservative Operations, system operators have more flexibility to make decisions to maintain reliability.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

With a single radiation treatment, a patient’s irregular heartbeat will be corrected; but there’s a catch. He and his collaborators developed an algorithm that tracks the diaphragm – the predominant driver of internal organ motion during a radiation treatment – in real-time using low-energy X-rays. Courtesy: Phys.

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Physics World

MAY 21, 2022

eV, use back surface reflectors to divert unusable sub-bandgap radiation back to the source, and are optimized for heat sources at temperatures of 1900–2400°C. Thermophotovoltaic (TPV) devices use photovoltaic cells to convert the predominantly infrared light emitted by hot objects (at 600°C or more) into electrical energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2022

When they fuse, they release a helium atom, a single energetic neutron, and a tremendous amount of energy which (it is hoped) will be harnessed to cleanly generate electricity. NIF can also be used to generate x-rays and gamma-rays which are used to study radiation hardness of weapons components and assemblies. Dylan Spaulding/UCS.

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Physics World

APRIL 27, 2022

A new type of photovoltaic cell continues working after sunset thanks to an additional generator that harvests electricity from the temperature difference between the cell and its surroundings. They also measured the electrical power the cell generated using a maximum power point tracking algorithm. Thermoelectric effect.

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Physics World

AUGUST 29, 2021

Conventional radiation detectors for X-ray imaging – whether integrated into large, immobile instruments like CT scanners or the small bitewing detectors used by dentists – are typically fashioned into rigid panels.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 20, 2021

A team from Dartmouth has developed a method to convert a standard clinical linear accelerator (linac) used for radiation therapy to deliver a FLASH-capable, ultrahigh-dose rate radiotherapy beam. Photon counting CT, however, enables one-step conversion straight from X-ray photons into an electrical current.

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Physics World

APRIL 26, 2022

The problem of the commercial utilization, for the production of power, of the energy of solar radiation, the wind and other intermittent natural sources is a double one,” he wrote. We can expect that future electric power generation in the UK will be based on variable renewables. But this is far from easy. Keeping the lights on.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You would need to do electrical measurements, optical measurements, and magnetic resonance measurements that tell you about the quantum mechanical nature of the states of the defect that you are observing,” Van de Walle explains. In real cells, however, various non-radiative recombination processes also take place, dragging down efficiency.

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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

The Altiplano plateau in western Bolivia has some of the world’s highest and most consistent levels of solar radiation, creating a high potential for solar photovoltaic power in the region, but structural challenges may prevent scaling. Photo credit: Anyisa / Alamy. By Santiago Espinoza. More small plants and storage.

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Physics World

JUNE 28, 2021

These funnels are rooted deeper in the Sun, in the star’s light-radiating photosphere, and they extend far into interplanetary space. Through future improvements, Jarolim’s team hope that their model could soon provide organizations that manage electrical and telecoms infrastructure with better warnings of damaging geomagnetic storms.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Photon-counting technology enables dramatic improvements in diagnostic imaging, including increased resolution and a reduction in radiation dose by up to 45% over conventional CT detectors. The culmination of over 15 years of research, Naeotom Alpha is the world’s first photon-counting CT scanner.

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Physics World

JULY 28, 2021

The team’s sensors isolate a snippet of solar radiation in the 200–400 MHz band, then listen for that same signature in the echo created when the Sun’s radio waves bounce off the base of the underlying ice sheet – taking advantage of the randomness of the Sun’s emissions, which are, the team explain, somewhat like a song that never repeats.

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Physics World

MARCH 2, 2022

These electromagnetic waves help regulate the way heat flows from the corona, and they also play an important role in the Van Allen radiation belts that surround the Earth. Signatures of an ambipolar electric field. So, electrons moving in a range of speeds see a constant electric field and are accelerated.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In addition to grants, there also are financing opportunities and tax breaks for the purchase of an electric vehicle or for building businesses and jobs. Administered by the Office of Air and Radiation, this program is $4.6 The reason for the different approaches is that each serves a different constituency and (hopefully!)

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Here, intense synchrotron radiation is used to obtain micron-scale-spatial-resolution images in 3D and to monitor rapid processes and changes in a sample. This coalescence is an unwanted but unfortunately common process in such foams, which are interesting, lightweight materials from which future electric cars might be built.

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Physics World

JUNE 14, 2021

Gravity and radiation. The radiation model adds the component of other places people could stop on their journeys: the less places there are to stop – to go shopping or to work, for example – the further people will travel. Predictable and universal.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The researchers tested their materials by exposing them to ultraviolet radiation, heat and an electrical field. As for applications, Tsai tells Physics World that as well as LEDs, the new PeMOF structures might come in useful as radiation scintillators for medical X-ray imaging. “We

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 3, 2023

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Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

terawatt hours of electricity annually, which is enough to power 300 000 UK homes for a year. Francesco Sette , director general of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, who is also chair of EIROforum, told Physics World that over 25% of users’ research at the facility is linked to climate change and the environment.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

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