The newsletter of calendar week 16 of 2021 is now available here.
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Li, Xiangyu; Peoples, Joseph; Yao, Peiyan; Ruan, Xiulin (2021): Ultrawhite BaSO 4 Paints and Films for Remarkable Daytime Subambient Radiative Cooling. In ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c02368. "In this work, we experimentally demonstrate remarkable full-daytime subambient cooling performance with both BaSO4 nanoparticle films and BaSO4 nanocomposite paints." LINK
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"Solar geoengineering, a controversial proposed set of technologies that could potentially cool the planet by reflecting incoming sunlight back to space, used to be on the fringes of climate policy." LINK
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"We discuss some of the central issues: Is the climate crisis so far gone that we need to consider risky ideas like solar engineering? Is solar engineering a hubristic dream of techno-elitists or the best tool we have to reduce the impacts of a warming climate for millions of people in the developing world? Who would be the winners and losers in a geoengineered world?" LINK
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"In the Swiss Alps, some ski resorts and glacial tourist attractions are using reflective blankets known as geotextiles to protect parts of glaciers from accelerated summer melt caused by global warming." LINK
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