Join us at Bruce Castle for an afternoon of activities celebrating Luke Howard s work and exploring what his achievements mean today.
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Among five items in this week s government/NGO section is Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory s annual report Utility-Scale Solar, 2023 Edition, chock-a-block with statistics and graphs quantifying an explosion of installed permanent energy sources. Photovoltaic deployment is accelerating and now outpacing wind as costs have rapidly plunged. Given the natural properties of wind and solar energy supplies, reserve power storage is very much in frame. Current battery storage capacity is about 22GWh, what a sizeable nuclear plant could deliver over the course of 10 hours or so. There s of course much more to be done but it s also true that we re only now beginning to seriously tackle the job of energy modernization.
The study analysed nanoparticles (10 to 1090 nanometers in diameter) in the city in 2021, over two periods from April to June, and October to November. These “very small particles” may come from natural sources or from human activities.
Nanoparticles are highly hazardous because they are much smaller than PM 2.5 or PM 10 600 times smaller than human hair and can penetrate deep into the lungs, bloodstream, and even the brain