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The UK Independent asks: “Is catastrophic global warming, like the Millennium...
I remember vividly the panic leading up to year 2000. People were racing to Y2K their computers and systems. TV news crews had reporters stationed at bank machines, at train traffic centers in NYC, at...
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Nanocopper CO2 catalyst – a possible solution to EPA’s draconian coal power...
From MIT, a possible solution to allow coal fired power plants to meet the new draconian CO2 emission requirements imposed by the EPA. Hybrid copper-gold nanoparticles convert carbon dioxide to methane...
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MIT: The economic cost of increased temperatures
(This is not from Lindzen I’d like to see one titled “the economic cost of colder temperatures”, particularly on Agricultural effects) Study: Warming episodes hurt poor countries and limit long-term...
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Increased tropical rainfall – seems like a negative feedback to me…
From MIT via press release, bear in mind this is just more model output based on estimates from observations. That said, thunderstorms and hurricanes are simply heat engines, and they transport heat...
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‘plug-and-play’ CO2 Scrubbers
From MIT, while “plug-and-play” is cited, it’s just a paper. Getting the carbon out of emissions Proposed method could be more efficient than previous systems and easier to retrofit in existing power...
View ArticleFinally, Fusion Power Is About to Become a Reality
A very optimistic story from Medium. It’s long so I’m posting only a small excerpt.~ctm Long considered a joke, or a pipe dream, fusion is suddenly making enormous leaps Brian Bergstein Jan 3 The...
View ArticleStudy: Much of the surface ocean will shift in color by end of 21st century
Climate-driven changes in phytoplankton communities will intensify the blue and green regions of the world’s oceans From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Climate change is causing significant...
View ArticleResearchers chart path to cheaper flexible solar cells
Public Release: 7-Feb-2019 Georgia Institute of Technology There’s a lot to like about perovskite-based solar cells. They are simple and cheap to produce, offer flexibility that could unlock a wide...
View ArticleClimate Action World War III++?
User Peter L writes: Some groups taking “climate action” into their own hands, be they activists or governments, could lead to a war and potentially a world war as others attempt to use violence to...
View ArticleExperiments show dramatic increase in solar cell output
Method for collecting two electrons from each photon could break through theoretical solar-cell efficiency limit Massachusetts Institute of Technology CAMBRIDGE, MA — In any conventional silicon-based...
View ArticleMIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air
The process could work on the gas at any concentrations, from power plant emissions to open air Massachusetts Institute of Technology A new way of removing carbon dioxide from a stream of air could...
View ArticleMIT: Five Grand Thermal Challenges to Decarbonise the Global Economy
What would it take to make renewable energy viable, and reduce emissions from industrial processes? MIT professors Asegun Henry, Ravi Prasher & Arun Majumdar describe five thermal challenges which...
View ArticleMIT Technology Review Discusses Bypassing the US Senate on Climate Policy
MIT Technology Review are deeply disappointed Biden may not have the numbers to pass the Green New Deal, but they are confident his executive actions, combined with slipping green spending into Covid...
View ArticleClaim: Scientists find the error source of a sea-ice model varies with the...
To address the issue of error source identification, Prof. Fei Zheng and his team from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, evaluated the sea-ice simulations of the...
View ArticleMIT unveils a new action plan to tackle the climate crisis
Using the campus as a living testbed, the Institute has studied every aspect of its operations to assess their climate impacts, including heating and cooling, electricity, lighting, materials, and...
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