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Keep Nuclear Power Plant Open, Urge 79 Scientists, Academics and Entrepreneurs
A California newspaper covers “pleas” to the state’s governor to delay the closure of a nuclear power plant: On Thursday, Dr. Steven Chu, former U.S. Secretary of Energy under the Obama administration and a Nobel laureate, and more than 79 scientists, academics and entrepreneurs sent a letter to [California governor] Read more…
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Thousands of Planes Are Flying Empty and No One Can Stop Them
“A pre-pandemic policy on airport usage is pressuring airlines to keep ‘ghost flights’ in the air,” Wired reported this week — adding “The climate impact is massive.” Lufthansa, Germany’s national airline, which is based in Frankfurt, has admitted to running 21,000 empty flights this winter, using its own planes and Read more…
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US Government Expands Sewage-System Testing for Data on Spread of Pathogens Including Covid-19
CNN reports that wastewater-based epidemiology “has proven to be so reliable in dozens of pilot projects across the U.S. that the government has invested millions to create the National Wastewater Surveillance System, or NWSS, a network of 400 testing sites spread across 19 states that is coordinated by the U.S. Read more…
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Protons Are Probably Actually Smaller Than Long Thought
A few years ago, a novel measurement technique showed that protons are probably smaller than had been assumed since the 1990s. The discrepancy surprised the scientific community; some researchers even believed that the Standard Model of particle physics would have to be changed. Physicists at the University of Bonn and Read more…
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Satellite Images Show Biggest Methane Leaks Come From Russia and US
About a tenth of the global oil and gas industry’s methane emissions have been found to come from a group of “ultra-emitter” sites located mostly in Turkmenistan, Russia and the US. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that governments recently agreed to slash by 2030. While huge plumes of methane Read more…
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New ‘Game-Changing’ Technology Removes 99% of CO2 From the Air
Engineers from the University of Delaware developed a method for effectively capturing 99 percent of carbon dioxide from the air using an electrochemical system powered by hydrogen, a press statement reveals. The new system, outlined in a new paper in the journal Nature Energy, was actually born out of a Read more…