Congress Extends Carbon-Capture Incentives
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WASHINGTON – While renewable energy is seeing significant growth across the country and around the world, supporters of coal are still finding backers in Congress who included key support for the industry in the federal government’s year-end spending plan.
In legislation that brought together economic stimulus programs along with continued funding of the federal government, Congress included several provisions that would advance so-called carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technology, which offers the potential to use coal for electricity production while significantly reducing carbon emissions.
Specifically, the legislation extends and expands key tax credits for CCUS technology that can help fund the nascent technology as researchers, utilities and other energy concerns continue developing it for wide-scale commercial use. Since the legislation passed, the Int
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February 1, 2021
Last September, India was confirming nearly 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day. It was on track to overtake the United States to become the country with the highest reported COVID-19 caseload in the world. Hospitals were full. The Indian economy nosedived into an unprecedented recession.
But four months later, India’s coronavirus numbers have plummeted. Late last month, on Jan. 26, the country’s Health Ministry confirmed a record low of about 9,100 new cases – in a country of nearly 1.4 billion people. It was India’s lowest daily tally in eight months. On Monday, India confirmed about 11,000 cases.
“It’s not that India is testing less, or things are going underreported,” says Jishnu Das, a health economist at Georgetown University. “It’s been rising, rising and now suddenly, it’s vanished! I mean, hospital ICU utilization has gone down. Every indicator says the numbers are down.”
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A mural in New Delhi is part of public health messaging in India. The country has seen a dramatic decline in new cases since the fall, but researchers aren t sure why. Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
Last September, India was confirming nearly 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day. It was on track to overtake the United States to become the country with the highest reported COVID-19 caseload in the world. Hospitals were full. The Indian economy nosedived into an unprecedented recession.
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Currently Reading Expiration dates on food have nothing to do with safety, so we guide you to when food actually does spoil
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Milk can remain safe to drink for five to seven days past the date on the container.Kameleon007 /Getty Images / iStockphoto
As easy as it is for me to toss half-empty bottles of sauce and jars of random pickled things from the refrigerator, I rarely let go of shelf-stable canned goods. And in a recent move, I did something I rarely do: look at the expiration dates.
And with that, the question was begged: What the heck is an expiration date, anyway? Well, as it turns out, not much. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, “except for infant formula, product dating is not required by Federal regulations.”
Report on game console energy consumption dings Microsoft for failure to tweak power-saving settings
January 29, 2021 at 11:28 am
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Energy consumption by the new Xbox gaming console could cost new owners of the Microsoft device more than $500 million on their electricity bills over the next five years, according to a new report by the National Resources Defense Council.
The NRDC points out that the Xbox Series X/S is capable of drawing less than 1 watt with its “energy saving” setting selected, but the units are shipped with the legacy setting of “instant on” highlighted instead. This distinction only saves a user five to 10 seconds when restarting a console, but, in further driving home its point, the NRDC says it could result in the equivalent of one large (500 MW) coal-burning power plant’s worth of annual electricity generation.