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Home Solar+Storage Will Get A Boost From The Recent Climate Bill, Claims Bloomberg

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A recent article at Bloomberg points out some of the big advantages of the recent Inflation Reduction Act for people considering home solar. When it comes to the recently passed law, EV tax credits have gotten much of the attention, largely due to controversies in how they’re structured.

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Tracking Climate Action: How the World Can Still Limit Warming to 1.5°C

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This article focuses on the 2023 findings of the annual State of Climate Action report series. View past articles here: [continued] The post Tracking Climate Action: How the World Can Still Limit Warming to 1.5°C C appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Arizona State Students Develop a Solar-Powered Air Filtration System

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The Project Koyash team at ASU designed a solar-powered air-filtration system that autonomously cleans polluted air in less than an hour. The students launched the initiative in 2020 after reading an article about the city’s air pollution in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.

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Climate Expert: Don't Call It Geoengineering

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The leaders of the world have just returned from the UN's latest climate change summit, COP26 , in which the countries that have signed on to the Paris Agreement upped their commitments to fight climate change. C by the year 2100 , according to Climate Action Tracker. C above pre-industrial levels. C above pre-industrial levels.

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Electric vs. Gasoline Cars: Uncovering the Real Climate Savior

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For instance, electricity generated from coal or natural gas is associated with higher carbon emissions, while renewable sources like wind or solar energy contribute negligible carbon pollution. This article was co-written using AI and was then heavily edited and optimized by our editorial team.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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“Electric cars will not save the climate. For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. It is completely wrong,” Fatih Birol , Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has stated.

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Pilot Project Sends Kelp–and Carbon–to the Seafloor

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The Climate Foundation , the Seattle-based company behind the project, has found that this deep cycling makes kelp grow three times as fast as it can when kept in shallow waters, as seaweed farmers do now. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024.

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