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IEEE Young Professionals Take On Climate Change

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Developing technology to address the causes of climate change, mitigate its impact, and adapt to the crisis is one of IEEE’s top priorities. To assist with that effort, the IEEE Young Professionals group this year launched its Climate and Sustainability Task Force. On 12 September, CSTF and IRENA presented a Youth Day event.

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Study finds Colorado River Basin’s worst known megadrought was 1,800 years ago

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The new study used tree-ring data and other climate records to identify a drought period unmatched in severity by the current drought or other ancient droughts. The new knowledge for how much worse droughts can be, even without anthropogenic climate forcing, points to a potentially grim outlook for water in the West. Gangopadhyay, S.,

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. presidential election, it seemed that we were entering one of those rare windows where you might see substantial policy action on climate and clean energy. C in this century. clean-tech legislation.

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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

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2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. This article, by researchers at PARC and the University of Washington, is one possible answer.

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Massachusetts awarding $15.5M to alternative fuel vehicles and projects; $1.8M for 8 electric school buses

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million in grants for eight electric school buses with vehicle-to-grid capability. Electric school buses have energy storage capability and can serve as back-up energy resources during natural disasters and similar events. While priority will be given to designated Green Communities, all communities are strongly encouraged to apply.

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China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics

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The event has already helped Beijing clean up its skies and environment, and has fired up local energy-technology markets. Powering them with clean energy sources won’t be difficult given China’s plentiful renewable capacity, says Michael Davidson , an engineering-systems and global-policy expert at the University of California, San Diego.

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New E3SM exascale modeling system for earth simulation released to scientific community

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Earth system simulation involves solving approximations of physical, chemical and biological governing equations on spatial grids at resolutions that are as fine in scale as computing resources will allow.

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