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Asian Development Bank providing $300M towards replacing 100K gasoline trikes with E-Trikes in the Philippines; $300M for major road upgrades in Chhattisgarh, India

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing $300 million towards a project that will replace 100,000 gasoline-burning tricycles in the Philippines with electric tricycles, or E-Trikes. Without intervention, the Philippines is on a course to almost quadruple CO 2 emissions in less than 25 years, the ADB said.

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Pilot Project Sends Kelp–and Carbon–to the Seafloor

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Last January, in the waters off Cebu City in the Philippines, researchers first deployed a huge flexible ring seeded with seaweed and spanned by spokelike ropes and tubes. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. At daybreak, the cranks pull the ring back up to the surface to soak up sunlight and carbon dioxide.

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Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94

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Tanenbaum went on to serve as president of AT&T’s New Jersey Bell (now part of Verizon ) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Adolf Goetzberger Photovoltaics pioneer Life Fellow, 94; died 24 February Goetzberger was an early proponent of solar energy technologies. The research paved the way for more effective solar power generation.

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Video Friday: Strandbeest

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It’s the most zoomed-in, highest frame-rate observation of a Phobos solar eclipse ever taken from the Martian surface. [ Palantir ] Dr. Heidi from Philippines Flying Labs provides a first report of the drone delivery training in Tawi Tawi along with the very first medical drone deliveries that took place as part of this training. [

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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

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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.

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The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

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Traditional orreries were mechanical models of the solar system. These often beautiful and intricate instruments were devised by skilled clockmakers to illustrate how the planets and their moons moved through the solar system. Two years later, the Philippines’ Atomic Energy Commission contributed a siderite, a nickel-iron meteorite.

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HALO research aircraft measuring the emissions of megacities in EmeRGe project

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In Asia, in particular, high temperatures, humidity, solar radiation and the frequency of storms play a major role. Ground measurements are being taken in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Thailand, for example. We are conducting low-level visual flights and can only fly in cloudless areas.

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