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Harvard team finds large-scale US wind power would cause warming that would take roughly a century to offset

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Extracting energy from the wind causes climatic impacts that are small compared to current projections of 21 st century warming, but large compared to the effect of reducing US electricity emissions to zero with solar. They find that large-scale wind power generation would warm the Continental United States 0.24 —David Keith.

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Niron Magnetics secures $17.5M ARPA-E SCALEUP grant to boost production of FeN magnets

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Powerful permanent magnets are necessary components of electric vehicle motors, wind turbines, efficient industrial motors, and many other modern technologies essential to the clean energy transition. With demand expected to triple by 2035, shortages and price increases are also forecasted. One of the top 5 global wind turbine OEMs.

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Renewables to overtake coal as largest global electricity source in 2025

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“The report shows that under existing policies and market conditions, global renewable power capacity is now expected to grow to 7,300 GW over the 2023-28 period covered by the forecast,” the IEA wrote in a press release. There are still some big hurdles to overcome, including the difficult global macroeconomic environment.” “For

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Audi Environmental Foundation, TUB developing microplastics filter for tire wear particles

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From there, it is blown into the environment by the wind, or is washed by the rain as urban runoff through the sewers into the soil and rivers and ultimately the oceans. Our goal is to take preventative actions wherever possible so that less microplastics get into the environment.

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CSIRO forecasts 50-year trend of decreasing rainfall over southern Australia to continue for another 50 years

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Decreasing autumn and winter rainfall over southern Australia has been attributed to a 50-year decrease in the average intensity of storms in the region—a trend which is forecast to continue for another 50 years, according to The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency.

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Successful trial of seabed polymetallic nodule collector suffers temporary stranding of robot on ocean floor

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These metals are vital for the infrastructure required to accommodate an urban population forecast to grow by 2.3 Furthermore, the deployment of clean energy technologies such as electric vehicle batteries and wind turbines will only widen the supply gap. billion by the 2060s. They haven’t.

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Study: Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops

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Maize and other annual crops are easier to manage with traditional farming, but they are tougher on the environment. Large perennial grasses such as miscanthus are a primary target for use as bioenergy crops because of their sustainability advantages, but they take several years to establish and aren’t ideal for crop rotation.

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