How Clear Messaging Can Help Everyone Understand The Importance Of Marine Heatwaves

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:15:27 +0000

marine heatwavesThe way we talk about the nature of ocean temperature change over short and long timescales is crucial. What language choices can clarify marine heatwave distinctions in order to help communities and ecosystems?

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Perovskites Can Reduce Carbon Emissions From Blast Furnaces

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 11:35:27 +0000

DALL·E generatred image of feeding scrapped steel into an electric furnace, digital artTo most CleanTechnica readers, perovskites are something used in solar panels to make electricity. Now it appears they may have other uses as well. Researchers at the University of Birmingham in the UK have recently published a report in the Journal of Cleaner Production with this catchy title: Cost effective decarbonisation of blast furnace – […]

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Climate Misinformation Is On The Rise — Can We “Reduce The Binary?”

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:55:02 +0000

climate misinformationI was talking to a friend who was visiting from the US northeast. She told me about her opposition to an offshore wind project near her home, as she didn’t want to suffer headaches as a result of the turbine blades rotating. While wind turbines do produce sound pressure, if the frequency is at or […]

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Classic Megaproject Early Mistakes Will Create A Fiscal Disaster For Netherlands Nuclear

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2023 19:25:22 +0000

DALL·E generated image of pouring euros into a nuclear reactor construction site, digital artRecently, the new coalition government of the Netherlands looked across its decarbonization portfolio, realized that it had failed to meet renewables targets, and so announced that it would build two nuclear power reactors with 1-1.6 GW capacity each. And the government is claiming that it will have them running in 2035, but has only outlined […]

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Industrial Heat Will Decarbonize With Electricity, Not Molecules, & Kanthal SVP Helps Us Understand Why

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:45:32 +0000

DALL·E generated image of a wind turbine with electrical wires flowing to steel furnace, digital artI had the opportunity to sit down for 90 minutes with Dilip Chandrasekaran, engineer, materials science PhD and SVP of industrial heat leader Kanthal.

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