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Scientists look for the Holy Grail: The whitest paint ever

Grist

That’s why it can cool below the ambient temperature.” per kilowatt-hour, their paint could result in a savings of $36 per month on cooling. Another “cool roofs” researcher, Ronnen Levinson of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Heat Island Group, noted one drawback. This is called thermal radiation, or emissivity.

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This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it’s spreading

Grist

Cattle in Elk Creek, Missouri, submerge themselves in a pasture pond to cool off in between grazing on non-native fescue grass, which can raise a cow’s temperature and give them a constant fever, one of the symptoms of fescue toxicity. Cool-season grasses do the opposite, putting their evolutionary resources into frost-tolerance.

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Germany’s Fallen ‘Solar Valley’ Sees New Life as Meyer Burger Buys Former SolarWorld Factory

GreenTechMedia

Many of Europe's leading solar manufacturers went bankrupt, or exited the sector, especially between 2012-2017, including BP, Bosch and SolarWorld itself. NexWafe makes the silicon wafers required for solar cells by skimming the cooled surface off a vat of silicon rather than cutting them from blocks, resulting in huge material savings.

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Greenland’s marine ecosystem is experiencing a radical ‘regime change’

Grist

Arctic sea ice, which is responsible for maintaining cool polar temperatures, is dwindling rapidly. Bluefin tuna had never been recorded off the eastern shore of Greenland prior to 2012, but have been recorded every year since. “We The astounding blue sea ice seemed almost inviolable in its grandeur.

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Jordan Peterson’s Climate Expert is Science Denier Funded by Oil-Backed Think Tank

DeSmogBlog

Singer was a speaker at a 2012 Heartland conference where sponsors received $67 million from Exxon, Koch and the Scaife Family Foundations. The real threat to humanity comes not from any (trivial) greenhouse warming but from cooling periods creating food shortages and famines.”.

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Interview – Singapore, Asia’s newest emerging geothermal market

ThinkGeoEnergy

History of geothermal exploration in Singapore (source: Alessandro Romagnoli) Subsequently, there was a six-year pause in the study before researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) expanded the groundwater concept in 2009-2012, simulating the first computer model for the Singapore geothermal reservoir (Oliver et al.

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Study predicts growth in UK wine production due to climate change

Envirotec Magazine

In addition, British weather can still be unpredictable, as the 2012 vintage demonstrated when much UK grape production was lost due to the cool and very wet flowering period. Year to year climatic variability will remain, including early season frost risk, even if the longer-term trends are good ones.