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Breakthrough technologies for sustainable progress #science #engineering #energy #water #food #air #forests #resources #transportation #space

[Malcolm Turnbull @TurnbullMalcolm]

Watching @InsidersABC - hands wringing about “how do we get to net zero by 2050?” Bottom line is if we don’t get there the planet will be uninhabitable for billions of people. How do we get there? Answer is plain:

[Future27 @futuretwntysvn]

How did climate change influence Australia’s fires?

Researchers start attribution study to determine how much #GlobalWarming is to blame for the blazes that have ravaged the continent.

IMAGE: Temperature data (°C) shows strong warming trend

https://t.co/KXiuTiod7q @nature

[Future27 @futuretwntysvn]

The chemists policing Earth’s atmosphere for rogue pollution
https://t.co/Phu0q8zIMq #aqi #AirQuality

[Future27 @futuretwntysvn]

US hit record $55.5B renewables investments in 2019

Worldwide investment hit $282.2 billion in 2019, up $2 billion since 2018, according to @BloombergNEF

https://t.co/cZxbdwGRQv

[Future27 @futuretwntysvn]

The Dutch plan to build an artificial island to support the world’s largest wind farm
https://t.co/gtb5GfVGrk

#RenewableEnergy #windpower

[Future27 @futuretwntysvn]

We must cut global emissions by 7.6 percent every year for next decade to meet 1.5°C Paris target - UN report

https://t.co/KcosXYaBOP

@UN #climatechange #emissions

[Future27 @futuretwntysvn]

First the dirtiest ones began shutting down. Then it was the old ones. Now it’s some of the biggest. America’s coal plants are turning off the boilers, facing brutal economics and customers fleeing for natural gas and #RenewableEnergy.

https://t.co/0hg3wPEM0a

[Future27 @futuretwntysvn]

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for work on lithium-ion batteries.

https://t.co/7eG1c0Lqmw

[Future27 @futuretwntysvn]

Air pollution cost the US roughly 5% of its yearly gross domestic product (GDP) ($790 billion in 2014). The highest costs come from early deaths, attributable to exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5).

@Stanford #AirPollution

https://t.co/ofsL18oXTI

[Future27 @futuretwntysvn]

Can we take the carbon out of air travel?

Grids are getting greener thanks to renewables, cars are going electric, even construction is exploring sustainable methods.

But air travel is popular, dirty and hard to power without hydrocarbons.

#Emissions

https://t.co/tQcotmwh5R

[Future27 @futuretwntysvn]

A company from Finland, Solar Foods, is planning to bring to market a new protein powder, Solein, made out of CO₂, water and electricity.

https://t.co/ZkqPK0iwBY

@nasa

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

#Nigeria is investing $20 billion in #renewables. They are building 10,000 #solar mini-grids to bring power to homes, schools, and hospitals.

We have solutions to the #climate crisis, time to implement them.

#ActOnClimate #climate #energy #cdnpoli #bcpoli

[Future27 @futuretwntysvn]

A critical step to reduce climate change | @BillGates

3 key solutions are needed to transition to clean electricity:

1. Improved energy storage systems

2. Carbon capture & storage & nuclear

3. High-voltage, long-distance transmission lines

https://t.co/kwqABQnmo4

[Future27 @futuretwntysvn]

Scientists have discovered a gigantic aquifer below the salty ocean off the US coast

It's the largest such formation yet found in the world

The study predicts many such aquifers exist worldwide & could yield #water for arid areas that are running out 🚰

https://t.co/qKYYioq11y

[Future27 @futuretwntysvn]

With increasing demand for food from the planet's growing population & climate change threatening stability of food systems, research examines how crop diversity at the national level could increase the harvest stability of all crops in a nation.

https://t.co/63kPCQw5XT

@UMNews

[Future27 @futuretwntysvn]

Former NSW premier Morris Iemma has launched a $1 billion fund to install rooftop solar farms on industrial and commercial properties.

https://t.co/VjaPskDI8H

#Australia #RenewableEnergy

[Future27 @futuretwntysvn]

"Despite all the progress, we’re still struggling to hit the climate emergency brake."

https://t.co/jMsbCJxVRH

#RenewableEnergy

[Future27 @futuretwntysvn]

Predator-free by 2050? High-tech hopes for New Zealand’s big conservation dream.

https://t.co/1Ui0T00mhb

[Future27 @futuretwntysvn]

We Could Have Had Electric Cars from the Very Beginning:

Early electric cars performed better in cities than internal combustion vehicles, but didn’t give riders the same illusion of freedom and masculine derring-do.

https://t.co/DYQBATjgSC

#EVs #ElectricVehicles #energy

[Future27 @futuretwntysvn]

Given the threat posed to the survival of human and natural ecosystems, "there is no sane rationale for companies to continue to explore for new sources of hydrocarbons.”

— The Rockefeller Family Fund (2016)