Most recent 40 articles: EW (Entertainment)
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How heat could solve climate problems - EW (Entertainment) (Apr 13, 2023) |
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Apr 13, 2023 · Heat is a climate villain for industry. It’s time for a redemption arc.
It’s finally springtime in New York. The skies are clearing up, the trees are blooming, and I’m already wishing I could bottle up all this sunshine to save for when winter comes around again.
While I can’t change the weather (not yet, anyway), it’s wild to think about just how much control many of us have over the temperature in most areas of our lives. We can set the thermostat to precisely 72 °F, take hot showers, and even step into a warm car on a cold day.
But there’s another arena where our mastery of temperature control is less visible, but arguably even more important: the manufacturing ... Read more ...
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The future of urban housing is energy efficient refrigerators | MIT Technology Review - EW (Entertainment) (Jun 23, 2022) |
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Jun 23, 2022 · Adapting old, energy-inefficient buildings is less sexy but far greener than many high-tech solutions.
The scars and pockmarks of the aging apartments and housing units under the purview of the New York City Housing Authority don’t immediately communicate the idea of innovation. The largest landlord in the city, housing nearly 1 in 16 New Yorkers, NYCHA has seen its buildings literally crumble after decades of deferred maintenance and poor stewardship.
Just as the physical infrastructure has broken down, leading to busted elevators, picked-apart playgrounds, and crumbling façades, the agency has weathered a series of scandals in recent years over mold infestations and ... Read more ...
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The lurking threat to solar power's growth - EW (Entertainment) (Jul 14, 2021) |
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Jul 14, 2021 · Skip to Content Plummeting sunny day solar prices are undermining the economic case to build more solar farms - and putting climate goals at risk. A few lonely academics have been warning for years that solar power faces a fundamental challenge that could halt the industry's breakneck growth. Read more ...
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Green hydrogen will become increasingly competitive as renewables costs fall | MIT Technology Review - EW (Entertainment) (Aug 11, 2020) |
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Aug 11, 2020 · As nations do the hard math on how to meet their climate goals, green hydrogen increasingly appears essential.
The world is increasingly banking on green hydrogen fuel to fill some of the critical missing pieces in the clean-energy puzzle.
US presidential candidate Joe Biden’s climate plan calls for a research program to produce a clean form of the gas that’s cheap enough to fuel power plants within a decade. Likewise, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and the European Union have all published hydrogen roadmaps that rely on it to accelerate greenhouse gas reductions in the power, transportation, or industrial sectors. Meanwhile, a growing number of companies ... Read more ...
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Why we can't count on carbon-sucking farms to slow climate change - EW (Entertainment) (Jun 04, 2020) |
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Jun 04, 2020 · Corporations, politicians, and environmentalists have all embraced carbon farming as the feel-good climate solution of the moment.
Several leading Democratic presidential contenders highlighted the potential to alter farming practices to suck up more carbon dioxide in their climate plans. And the presumptive nominee, Joe Biden, declared last summer: "Soil is the next frontier for storing carbon."
Companies like BP, General Mills, Kellogg, Microsoft, and Shell have all announced plans or joined initiatives that will direct their suppliers to adopt the techniques or pay farmers who do so to obtain so-called offsets credits. These allow the businesses to claim credit for ... Read more ...
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We're about to kill a massive, accidental experiment in reducing global warming - EW (Entertainment) (Jan 26, 2018) |
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Jan 26, 2018 · Studies have found that ships have a net cooling effect on the planet, despite belching out nearly a billion tons of carbon dioxide each year. That's almost entirely because they also emit sulfur, which can scatter sunlight in the atmosphere and form or thicken clouds that reflect it away.
In effect, the shipping industry has been carrying out an unintentional experiment in climate engineering for more than a century. Global mean temperatures could be as much as 0.25 °C lower than they would otherwise have been, based on the mean "forcing effect" calculated by a 2009 study that pulled together other findings (see "The Growing Case for Geoengineering "). For a world struggling ... | By James Temple Read more ...
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Did Climate Change Fuel California's Devastating Fires? Probably. - EW (Entertainment) (Oct 13, 2017) |
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Oct 13, 2017 · Nearly two dozen wildfires have burned almost 170,000 acres across California this week, destroying thousands of structures and killing 23 people so far, in what already amounts to one of the worst wildfire seasons in the state's history.
The blazes are concentrated in Northern California's wine country, where more than a dozen fires ignited late Sunday as powerful, dry fall winds ripped through the region. Thousands of residents have been forced from their homes, and hundreds are missing (see "Fighting Fires from the Sky, No Pilot Necessary").
The cause of the fires remains under investigation, but some local media reports raised the possibility that downed power lines ... Read more ...
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