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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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Archived Articles Revisited:
This is your weekly personal list of three random articles extracted from our website archives. These links are unique to you and are more than one year old. The intention is to deliver a sense of what was considered a priority on that date compared with today's latest articles and presentations. You are encouraged to share these links with your social media and other networks.
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Topic: Microgrids in the age of the Anthropocene. Time: Mar 15, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Human impact on the planet has reached unprecedented levels of environmental degradation. Scientists are proposing to call this geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Electric power systems are a major contributor to the unsustainable human impact on the planet. A major shift in …
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You are invited to a scheduled CACOR Zoom meeting. Speaker: Hector Garcia Topic: Intergenerational Alliances to Counter Silo Mindset on Economic Growth vs Humanity, Nature, and Reason. Time: Mar 22, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89304835366?pwd=VmVCRi9wRjJXQ25aeitXZytPYlk1UT09 Meeting ID: 893 0483 5366 Passcode: 651467 Summary: Humanity is experiencing great trauma and crises during the current phase of globalization. Where and how are …
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I wish THIS did not have Happen in my Time On Facing the Challenges of our Times THE Ring from Lord of the Rings “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Study into global daily air pollution shows almost nowhere on Earth is safe Study of daily ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) has found that only 0.001% of the global population are exposed to WHO safe levels Date: March 7, 2023 Source: Monash University Summary: In a new study of daily ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) across the globe, a new …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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EV batteries alone could support the grid in the short term as the world transitions to renewables, according to new research published yesterday. The study, titled “Electric vehicle batteries alone could satisfy short-term grid storage demand by as early as 2030,” was published in Nature Communications. Researchers “quantify the global EV battery capacity available for grid storage using an integrated model incorporating …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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There may be no free lunch, but reducing carbon emissions costs less than lunch. Sally Rudd Sally Rudd was a graduate student in energy economics at Simon Fraser University when she found that the cost of achieving an 80% reduction of emissions in the United States would be equivalent to a year and a half of lost economic growth. It would …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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"The world’s oceans hit their warmest levels on record for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, fueling sea-level rise and contributing to climate disasters "Oceans hit their warmest levels on record for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, according to a new report by two dozen scientists. Previous heat records were broken in 2021, 2020 and 2019, and all of …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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Nicole Morgan wrote about the progress toward a better future being a notion about time, but one that emerged from a feeling of spaciousness. At the end of the 19th century, Europeans confronted the end of their capacity to expand spatially into other parts of the world. It was the end of the Age of Empires and the end of …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) held an investor day event on Wednesday at its Gigafactory in Austin, Texas with a strong focus on sustainability and the company's future trajectory. Elon Musk started off the event talking about the "clear path" to a fully sustainable Earth. He highlighted the dirty and wasteful energy economy that is currently in place and noted sustainable sources could power …
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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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The planet is in the midst of drastic biodiversity loss that some experts think may be the next great species die-off. How did we get here and what can be done about it? We’re in the midst of a planetary sixth extinction. The present episode has only one root cause: Homo sapiens. There is no better snapshot of biodiversity woes than …
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In late January, 2023, a geothermal power startup began conducting an experiment deep below the desert floor of northern Nevada. It pumped water thousands of feet underground and then held it there, watching for what would happen. Geothermal power plants work by circulating water through hot rock deep beneath the surface. In most modern plants, the water resurfaces at a …
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Could optical concentrators be the future of solar panel technology? This invention could supercharge solar panels. We're always chasing better performing and more efficient solar panels to help power our renewable energy future, but no matter how efficient a panel is there are location-based impacts to performance. Solutions like solar trackers can help to overcome some of these issues, but …
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Tesla adds ‘Charge on Excess Solar’ function in app to get clean range at home Tesla is going to let owners of its electric vehicles charge their cars using excess solar energy that has accumulated throughout the day and can’t be stored in a Powerwall, coding in its smartphone app seems to reveal. “Plug in your vehicle at home during …
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Just a month after announcing artificial intelligence integration with its search engine Bing and browser Edge, Microsoft is introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot, a tool that'll work with you in its collection of apps including Excel, PowerPoint, Word and more. In a blog post on Thursday, Microsoft said the new AI tool will increase creativity and productivity. "Copilot gives you a first draft to edit …
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< Driving.ca > "With new models cropping up left and right, it can be hard to keep track of all the EVs on the market today—so here's a list. "Some of these models, such as the Rivian R1T and Lucid Air, are not yet widely available in this country, but we have included them since they are officially on sale. …
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A common and widely used chemical may be fueling the rise of the world’s fastest-growing brain condition – Parkinson’s disease. For the past 100 years, trichloroethylene (TCE) has been used to decaffeinate coffee, degrease metal, and dry clean clothes. It contaminates the Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune, 15 toxic Superfund sites in Silicon Valley, and up to one-third of groundwater …
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Just Have a Think Electric vehicles are apparently on the cusp of an exponential growth curve that will see hundreds of millions of them on our roads by mid-century. But how will our electricity grids cope? Will EVs cause regular meltdowns? Will the constant sharing of electrons wreck your very expensive battery? Or, could they actually be a beneficial addition? …
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As has been pointed out, the system will not pay itself back with just the VPP revenue; no surprise there. But there are some other things which can factor in & ought to be mentioned: 1} What was the previous cost of electricity for this home? 2} Does the homeowner drive pure electric, and what is the cost of those …
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The coming overhaul of Ontario’s electric power system will be a megaproject of historic proportions. In a nutshell, the goal is to double Ontario’s electricity supply while decarbonizing the power system to net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. If that sounds like trying to square a circle, it’s pretty close. But Ontario has no choice than to embark …
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