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Dec 16, 2021

China Claims Its First Floating Nuclear Reactor Can Withstand Extreme Typhoons

Posted by in category: climatology

And it can allegedly survive a ‘once-in-10,000-years weather event’.

A safe reactor is a seaworthy reactor.

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Dec 15, 2021

Ultra-Accurate Dual-Gas Sensor Tracks Greenhouse Gasses Down to 65 Parts Per Trillion

Posted by in categories: climatology, sustainability

Designed for research into climate change this high-precision gas sensor is good to 133 parts per trillion CO and 65 parts per trillion N₂O.

Dec 15, 2021

Habitability in the Solar System

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, climatology, existential risks, sustainability

Moderator: Michael Wall.
Panelists: Kennda Lynch, Abigail Fraeman, Morgan Cable.

Part of the Earth at the Crossroads conference held on Nov. 18, 2021.

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Dec 15, 2021

NASA’S Parker Solar Probe Touches The Sun’s Searing Upper Atmosphere

Posted by in categories: climatology, particle physics, space

For the first time ever, a manmade object has entered the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, which inexplicably is thousands of times hotter than our star’s surface (or photosphere).

Researchers led by a team at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor were able to predict where the Sun’s upper atmosphere began, and the probe was able to penetrate it for roughly five hours. The Parker probe was not only able to fly through the Sun’s atmosphere but was also able to sample particles and magnetic fields there, says NASA.

“Flying so close to the Sun, Parker Solar Probe now senses conditions in the magnetically dominated layer of the solar atmosphere — the corona — that we never could before,” Nour Raouafi, the Parker project scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, said in a statement. “We can actually see the spacecraft flying through coronal structures that can be observed during a total solar eclipse.”

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Dec 15, 2021

Hydrogen Airships Promise Zero Emissions at Quarter the Price of Plane Cargo

Posted by in categories: climatology, sustainability

They could be “critical in the fight against climate change.”

A California-based startup called H2 Clipper wants to resurrect the hydrogen-filled airship as a form of mass transport. The key difference is that it won’t be transporting people, it will be transporting cargo, a press statement reveals.

The company aims to kickstart a green global cargo network by leveraging the world’s renewed willingness to try alternative forms of transport following the IPCC’s dire climate change report for 2021.

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Dec 15, 2021

Make Your Voice Heard. Ten Points To Tell Politicians & Businesses To Accept & Action

Posted by in categories: business, climatology, sustainability

Climate Emergency Basics.

Most people now accept that things are out of balance, and it is only those with warped agendas or a lack of understanding that are left behind.
Use these ten facts as starting points with which to move forward.
Use your vote, where you have one, in politics, the boardroom or a shareholders meeting to push for change in the right direction.
Use your money to buy goods and services from those making the right decisions to make the future cleaner, renewable and sustainable.
Finally, USE YOUR VOICE. Talk to everyone and share these thoughts, and challenge misinformation when you hear it being spread.
We can create a better future.
We waste billions subsidising fossil fuels when we could be scaling renewables and developing alternatives faster.
The more people vote for those with net zero policies and buy from those with net zero aims and ambitions, the sooner the balance will tip and momentum will do the rest.

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Dec 14, 2021

Musk Wants SpaceX to Turn CO2 From Atmosphere Into Rocket Fuel

Posted by in categories: climatology, Elon Musk, space travel, sustainability

Billionaire Elon Musk is pushing ahead with an attempt to utilize emissions contributing to climate change, tweeting that his rocket company will launch a program to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and use it to power spacecraft.

The chairman and chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Musk announced the project on Dec. 13, shortly after being named Person of the Year by Time magazine.

Dec 14, 2021

Artificial intelligence can create better lightning forecasts

Posted by in categories: climatology, information science, robotics/AI

Lightning is one of the most destructive forces of nature, as in 2020 when it sparked the massive California Lightning Complex fires, but it remains hard to predict. A new study led by the University of Washington shows that machine learning—computer algorithms that improve themselves without direct programming by humans—can be used to improve lightning forecasts.

Better lightning forecasts could help to prepare for potential wildfires, improve safety warnings for lightning and create more accurate long-range climate models.

“The best subjects for machine learning are things that we don’t fully understand. And what is something in the atmospheric sciences field that remains poorly understood? Lightning,” said Daehyun Kim, a UW associate professor of atmospheric sciences. “To our knowledge, our work is the first to demonstrate that machine learning algorithms can work for lightning.”

Dec 13, 2021

By the Numbers: The deadliest tornadoes in US history

Posted by in category: climatology

After dozens of tornadoes sweep through nine states, here is a look at the worst tornado outbreaks on record.

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Dec 12, 2021

Six Hurricane-Faring Autonomous Drones to Collect Data in Gulf Stream Region

Posted by in categories: climatology, drones, robotics/AI, sustainability

The same Saildrones captured the first-ever video from inside a major hurricane from sea level in September.

Six autonomous Saildrones are taking off on a six-month journey to tackle some of Earth’s most challenging ocean conditions, in order to improve climate change and weather forecast computer models, reported CNN.

They will travel to the Gulf Stream throughout the winter months where they will collect data about the process by which oceans absorb carbon (carbon uptake). So far, the numbers on this type of activity have only been estimates produced by statistical methods that cannot, therefore, be relied upon.

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