¶Frost on the grass this morning! No worries, though....we’re scheduled to hit 80 again later this week! Last go at it though, I’m sure.
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Capturing carbon from the air just got easier - Berkeley News (berkeley.edu)
¶“We took a powder of this material, put it in a tube, and we passed Berkeley air — just outdoor air — into the material to see how it would perform, and it was beautiful. It cleaned the air entirely of CO2. Everything,” said Omar Yaghi, the James and Neeltje Tretter Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley and senior author of a paper that will appear online Oct. 23 in the journal Nature.
¶This sounds promising.
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Singapore gives conditional nod to import solar power from Australia via 4,300km of subsea cables (straitstimes.com)
¶As part of the US$24 billion (S$31.6 billion) project, Australian solar project developer Sun Cable will build a massive solar farm in the southern region of Darwin, the state capital city of Australia’s Northern Territory. Electricity generated will be transmitted to Singapore via 4,300km of subsea cables.
¶This is an interesting project to watch — international, transoceanic delivery of renewable energy. Sounds like the project just passed a technical and commercial viability stage gate and off ramps are still on the horizon, but it seems to have some momentum.
¶Atlassian co-counder Mike Cannon-Brookes is behind the project, maybe trying to prove that not all billionaires are bad. This article gives some background on business of the project and Cannon-Brookes involvement.
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