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Stay Informed
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CACOR's weekly newsletter
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Welcome to Stay Informed, CACOR's weekly newsletter. It contains all the latest updates to the CACOR Website. Signup and previous weekly newsletters are available here.
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The complete list of the CACOR Zoom series from
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presentation #1 on 2020-04-15
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presentation # 127 on 2022-12-14
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To CACOR Members:
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"A CACOR group focused on GHG reduction techniques integrated into a plan to survive an extinction event." If any CACOR member wishes to join this group, contact Richard van der Jagt or Art Hunter.
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Do you want to contact your Federal MP or Senator?
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GTI Bulletin August 2022 Dear friends, The explosion of human numbers after World War Two triggered a passionate “population debate.” Did population growth portend a catastrophic future, or were such fears exaggerated and misguided? Then, the Green Revolution quelled the specter of famine, and declining fertility rates tempered population growth. The topic lost salience, even becoming rather taboo in policy …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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It is important to recognise that what drives invention is necessity. Where coal or metals were mined, the miners needed a continuous supply of energy powerful enough to pump out flood water faster than it entered their mines. The inventors and engineers who built and installed the first steam engines were inspired in their designs by intuition and common sense. …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Two years ago, forecasters in the UK conducted an interesting thought experiment: What will our forecasts look like in 2050? The climate crisis is pushing weather to the extreme all over the world, and temperatures in the northern latitudes have been particularly sensitive to these changes. So meteorologists at the UK Met Office -- the official weather forecast agency for …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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After Hurricane Katrina hit the southeastern US in August 2005 — causing more than 1,800 deaths — Lauren Flanagan, CEO and co-founder of nanogrid maker Sesame Solar, decided she had to do something to address the human toll of climate disasters. “When you have a Katrina-like catastrophe, the government sends out fossil solutions,” she said. But those solutions only compound …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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Hendrik (Gus) van Harten, a student at Guelph, wrote this essay while an undergraduate. He was in Poland at the time, as a visiting student at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and here gave some thought to pollution in that country as part of the global human development problem. First, he examined the severity of pollution in Poland and some of …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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In this episode of the Popular Mechanics series “MADE HERE,” the authors toured the factory for Polywood, a company that takes recycled plastic (mostly milk jugs), turns it into “lumber,” and uses it to fashion outdoor furniture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHcdFnz6fvY
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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California startup Aptera has purchased a factory for its solar cars — and instead of rolling down an assembly line, the vehicles will be carried from station to station by autonomous robots. The challenge: In the US, transportation pumps more greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere than any other sector — even more than industry or electricity. Transitioning away from fossil fuel-powered cars and to electric ones …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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Key indicators of how humans are changing the Earth: Sea level, species, carbon dioxide, sea ice, population, daily temperature extremes, annual climate change performance by country, air pollution, temperature records, climate change indicators, top ten emitters, historic emissions, electric vehicles.
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This video will get your attention. An angry weather system is not trivial.
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The James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled us with its first batch of images. WIRED got in touch with the one and only Bill Nye to break down some of these astonishing photos, explaining what we're really looking at. Bill analyzes some images of the Carina Nebula, Southern Ring Nebula, Stephan's Quintet and more.
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Exploring the history of nuclear powered cars and making projections into the future.
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Participate in the Emergency Load Reduction Program (ELRP) pilot offered by Southern California Edison (SCE) and support the grid while also earning compensation and maintaining your energy security. Help create the largest distributed battery in the world and keep California’s energy clean and reliable. Opt-in to the Tesla Virtual Power Plant (VPP) with SCE and your Powerwall will be dispatched when …
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Students in the Netherlands built this #solarpowered van. It can drive over 700 km on a sunny day and reach speeds up to 120 kmph.
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Fossil fuel dominance of our power grids is coming to an end. The business model featuring a one way street of electricity supply from huge centralised generator to captive, submissive consumer will soon be consigned to the history books, replaced by a smart distributed grid with multi-directional imports and exports, often driven by local community schemes. Here's a great example. …
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While the policy changes are starting to take effect, new DER technologies for powering microgrids are increasingly becoming available from international start-ups. In Spain, a solar energy company recently introduced a portable solar power system with a capacity of up to 6.5 kilowatts, PV Magazine says. The system features retractable panels transported by a tow-behind trailer and can be “transformed into …
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Presumably, the process of creativity, whatever it is, is essentially the same in all its branches and varieties, so that the evolution of a new art form, a new gadget, a new scientific principle, all involve common factors. We are most interested in the “creation” of a new scientific principle or a new application of an old one, but we …
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More electric vehicles (EVs) are on roads than ever before as many Canadians start to move away from internal combustion vehicles to reduce the carbon emissions that contribute to climate change. But what about the environmental impact of the batteries used to run this electric transportation? Many of you sent in questions after reading this article about EV charging stations. Ask CBC News followed …
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Good morning all, The link (below) provides an introductory (and quite extensive) explanation to the question "what happens to EV batteries when they need to be replaced?" Hopefully the May 2022 CBC article, in the link below, eases some public concerns about whether EV's batteries have recyclable or second- life capabilities. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/ask-electric-vehicle-battery-faq-1.6468646
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