"The new technology was inspired by the way plants use photosynthesis to turn carbon dioxide into glucose and oxygen. The artificial leaf mimics this process – with the help of a cheap red powder called cuprous oxide – and produces methanol and oxygen." LINK
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The newsletter of calendar week 46 in 2019 is now available here.
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Wheeling, Kate. 2019. “Where Does the Carbon Go When Permafrost Coasts Erode? - Eos.” Eos. November 7, 2019. https://eos.org/research-spotlights/where-does-the-carbon-go-when-permafrost-coasts-erode. "Arctic coastlines have not been considered carefully in carbon cycles for long, but new research suggests that eroding permafrost may emit more greenhouse gases than previously thought." LINK
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"A series of leaked emails was leapt on by climate-change deniers to discredit the data, but their efforts may have only slowed the search for solutions." LINK
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Lockley, Andrew. 2019. “Distributed Governance of Solar Radiation Management Geoengineering: A Possible Solution to SRM’s ‘Free-Driver’ Problem?” Frontiers of Engineering Management, October. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42524-019-0055-y. "We propose a novel distributed governance model of consensually-constrained unilateralism: Countries’ authority is limited to each state’s fraction of the maximum realistic intervention (e.g., pre-industrial temperature). We suggest a division of authority based on historical emissions (Rocha et al., 2015)—noting alternatives (e.g., population). To aid understanding, we offer an analogue: An over-heated train carriage, with passenger-controlled windows. We subsequently discuss the likely complexities, notably Coasian side-payments. Finally, we suggest further research: Algebraic, bot and human modeling; and observational studies." LINK
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