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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy and EV Modern Life

Setec Powerr

Here in New York City, where we have a population density that supports a mass transit system, most of our fossil fuel use is to power our buildings. Windmills can harm migrating birds, and solar cells require toxic substances to be manufactured. Wind and solar farms are alternatives to fossil fuel-fired power plants.

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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

Cars That Think

The proposal calls for what’s known as “solar geoengineering”: cooling the planet by deflecting sunlight that would otherwise strike the planet. Little is known about how, or whether, solar geoengineering might work and how the particles would react and move in the stratosphere. There were nearly 40 million such flights in 2019.

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Aurora Tourism in Iceland: You Can Seek, but You May Not Find

Baua Electric

The northern lights, which are also called the aurora borealis, are most visible when there are solar flares, which are big eruptions on the sun that send electronically charged particles toward Earth. But the enhanced solar activity doesn’t necessarily mean the northern lights will be brighter or more frequent, scientists wearily explain.

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NYC Goes EV

Revenge of the Electric Car

Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? Imagine it is 2013 in New York City. Instead, while you recharge your battery after a long day at work, your new electric car could be recharging as well. Others, however, think the city should focus more in getting people out of cars altogether.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

Cars That Think

How fast can you ramp your power plants up and down to handle the variability from wind and solar? Energy Information Administration (EIA) and IEA vastly under project ed wind and solar deployments. We did downscaling of where you would build all the wind and solar generation that the model suggested.

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Researchers Aim to Decarbonize Chemical Industry by Electrifying It

Cars That Think

These emissions are approaching a tipping point, and the companies responsible for creating these necessary products are increasingly looking at options to help offset their pollution outputs. Ultimately, our goal is to forge fruitful collaborations and help New York City become a global cleantech innovation hub.”

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New Research Tools for Assessing Impacts of Aerosols on Climate

Green Car Congress

Visibility in the clear sky is reduced by the presence of aerosols, whose types and concentrations have a large impact on the amount of solar radiation that reaches Earth’s surface. Creation of this database is a big step forward for researching long-term changes in air pollution and correlating these with climate change.

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