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Almost nowhere on Earth safe from PM2.5, says Melbourne study

Envirotec Magazine

Calcutta, India: In southern Asia and eastern Asia, more than 90% of days had daily PM 2.5 concentrations at a high spatial resolution of approximately 10km ×10km for global grid cells in 2000-2019, focusing on areas above 15 μg/m³ which is considered the safe limit by WHO (The threshold is still arguable),” he said.

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Counting the microns

Envirotec Magazine

exposure, for which the upper limit is 500 µg/m 3 – which adds perspective to New Delhi’s lung-rupturing 900 µg/m3 levels recorded in late 2019. The report also said 7% of cities in Europe met the WHO PM2.5 levels but remains the most polluted country in Europe, with an annual average concentration of 27.5

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IRENA: Renewables accounted for three quarters of new power capacity in 2019

Business Green

Renewable electricity capacity growth slowed just a touch in 2019, yet still made up almost three quarters of all new power capacty that came into operation worldwide last year, according to the latest data released today by the International Renewable Energy Association (IRENA). according to IRENA. Overall, renewables capacity expanded by 7.6

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Fluence Launches Next-Generation Battery Storage Product with 800MW of Orders

GreenTechMedia

The company previously said it had updated battery controls for enhanced safety following an investigation into the explosion at a battery the company supplied in Arizona in April 2019. in 2019, came from Enel, LS Power, sPower and Siemens. The new purchases bring Fluence’s tally of built or contracted storage capacity to 2.1

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Why Orsted Doesn’t Need Anything but Offshore Wind

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gigawatts of offshore wind installed or past a final investment decision, according to a 2019 company report issued at the end of January. That’s more than Europe’s six next-largest offshore wind developers combined, based on a Goldman Sachs forecast published in The Economist in August.

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Global Energy Trends From The 2023 Statistical Review Of World Energy

R-Squared Energy

below 2019 levels. The decline was attributable to record price levels in Europe and Asia in 2022, rising nearly threefold in Europe and doubling in the Asian LNG spot market. Russia’s disruption of energy imports skyrocketed natural gas and coal prices to all-time highs in Europe and Asia.

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Wastewater helps decipher the popularity of new synthetic drugs

Envirotec Magazine

Previously, Richard Bade, Cobus Gerber and colleagues used this technique to find out how popular various NPS were during the 2019-2020 New Year period in eight countries. . “And because everyone goes to the restroom at some point, all users are monitored with this analysis,” as the ACS puts it.