Energy & Green Tech
Australia has three ways it can help reduce world greenhouse emissions, the only reduction that matters in tackling climate change.
Oct 30, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Scrubbing carbon dioxide from the air is imperative if humanity is to limit global warming, experts say, and a California startup says it can do just that, using limestone as a carbon-sucking sponge.
Oct 30, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
By installing a heat pump in his house in the hills of Oslo, Oyvind Solstad killed three birds with one stone, improving his comfort, finances and climate footprint.
Oct 29, 2023
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Business
A new report from Generation180, a national, clean energy nonprofit, finds that car buyers are more likely to consider an electric vehicle if their neighbors drive one. While multiple factors can influence purchasing decisions, ...
Oct 26, 2023
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Engineering
This summer, Canada experienced wildfires, extreme heat, drought and flooding. Other regions of the world faced similar events.
Oct 26, 2023
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Engineering
In agriculture today, robots and drones can monitor fields, temperature and moisture sensors can be automated to meet crop needs, and a host of other systems and devices make farms more efficient, resource-conscious, and ...
Oct 25, 2023
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Engineering
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE has developed and successfully commissioned the world's first medium-voltage string inverter for large-scale power plants. By feeding power into the medium-voltage grid, ...
Oct 24, 2023
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Business
In August, Victoria's Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny made a decision that could set a difficult precedent for Australia's effort to get to net-zero emissions by 2050.
Oct 23, 2023
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Engineering
When Australia last went into El Niño, we had water supply issues in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne.
Oct 20, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Australia's renewable energy transition is well underway, but an impending shift in the reliability of solar due to climate change could impact generation capacity and the management of the electricity grid.
Oct 18, 2023
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Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other meteorological elements in a given region over long periods of time. Climate can be contrasted to weather, which is the present condition of these same elements over periods up to two weeks.
The climate of a location is affected by its latitude, terrain, altitude, ice or snow cover, as well as nearby water bodies and their currents. Climates can be classified according to the average and typical ranges of different variables, most commonly temperature and rainfall. The most commonly used classification scheme is the one originally developed by Wladimir Köppen. The Thornthwaite system, in use since 1948, incorporates evapotranspiration in addition to temperature and precipitation information and is used in studying animal species diversity and potential impacts of climate changes. The Bergeron and Spatial Synoptic Classification systems focus on the origin of air masses defining the climate for certain areas.
Paleoclimatology is the study and description of ancient climates. Since direct observations of climate are not available before the 19th century, paleoclimates are inferred from proxy variables that include non-biotic evidence such as sediments found in lake beds and ice cores, and biotic evidence such as tree rings and coral. Climate models are mathematical models of past, present and future climates.
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