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business, climate change - August 12, 2021

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟱𝟬𝟬 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱

WATER - August 12, 2021

𝐌𝐈𝐓’𝐬 𝐯𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐫-𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬

Nuclear Power Plant. Credit: Pixabay The power plants that provide electricity from fossil fuels or nuclear power consume huge amounts of water for cooling, which then goes to waste as water vapor. More than 65% of these plants use evaporative cooling, resulting in huge white plumes of steam billow from their cooling towers. While it’s somewhat a relief to know it’s not carbon dioxide or, worse, greenhouse gases, they do represent how much water is being consumed and, in some cases, even contribute to dangerous driving conditions. MIT engineers have developed a system that can harvest that water vapor and collect it as...

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climate change - August 12, 2021

𝗠𝗜𝗧 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟮 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗽𝘀𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆. 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗪𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲

MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We’re on Schedule A 1972 MIT study predicted that rapid economic growth would lead to societal collapse in the mid 21st century. A new paper shows we’re unfortunately right on schedule. A remarkable new study by a director at one of the largest accounting firms in the world has found that a famous, decades-old warning from MIT about the risk of industrial civilization collapsing appears to be accurate based on new empirical data. As the world looks forward to a rebound in economic growth following the...

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Canada, renewable energy, renewable fuels - August 11, 2021

𝗥𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗱𝗮

The writing’s been on the wall for coal for awhile, and in 2020, it just couldn’t compete with renewable energy when it came to new installations. Fossil fuels lost more ground to wind and solar in 2020 That’s according to a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), which found that 62 per cent of renewable energy capacity that came online last year cost less to install than the cheapest fossil fuel option. In real terms, that’s a total of 162 GW that was cheaper to install than coal, around double what it was in 2019. The costs of...

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August 11, 2021

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