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===== Solar becomes top source of electricity in California ===== | |||
[https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/07/09/solar-becomes-top-source-of-electricity-in-california/ by John Fitz Gerald Weaver 9/7/25 pv magazine] | |||
Over the past year, solar generation surpassed natural gas to become California’s leading source of electricity, a milestone expected to persist. | |||
===== Five geoengineering trials the UK is funding to combat global warming ===== | |||
[https://theconversation.com/five-geoengineering-trials-the-uk-is-funding-to-combat-global-warming-256515?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=The%20Conversation%20UK&utm_campaign=publer by Robert Chris 3/6/25 The Conversation] | |||
The UK government recently announced plans to fund five small-scale trials related to geoengineering. It’s the first time a state research funding body has put serious money into what’s known as solar radiation management, or SRM, which seeks to cool the planet by reflecting more of the Sun’s energy back into space. | |||
===== The bacteria that can capture carbon ===== | |||
[https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230829-the-bacteria-that-can-capture-carbon by Isabelle Gerretsen 29/8/23 BBC] | |||
Scientists have recently discovered a microbe, a type of cyanobacteria, off the coast of a volcanic island near Sicily that eats carbon dioxide (CO2) "astonishingly quickly". | |||
===== Buoyancy-driven hybrid energy platform moves to full-scale pilot ===== | ===== Buoyancy-driven hybrid energy platform moves to full-scale pilot ===== | ||
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The electrochemical process by the labs of chemical and biomolecular engineers Haotian Wang and Thomas Senftle of Rice's Brown School of Engineering resolves issues with previous attempts to reduce carbon monoxide (CO) into acetic acid. Those processes required additional steps to purify the product. | The electrochemical process by the labs of chemical and biomolecular engineers Haotian Wang and Thomas Senftle of Rice's Brown School of Engineering resolves issues with previous attempts to reduce carbon monoxide (CO) into acetic acid. Those processes required additional steps to purify the product. | ||
=====‘Green hydrogen’ from renewables could become cheapest ‘transformative fuel’ within a decade===== | =====‘Green hydrogen’ from renewables could become cheapest ‘transformative fuel’ within a decade===== | ||
