The team used satellite data collected from 2000 to 2013 to look at
plants at a global scale.
Not exact matches
Sabine Fuss, a sustainable energy researcher
at the Mercator Research Institute on
Global Commons and Climate Change in Berlin who is unaffiliated with Climeworks, said that the company's direct - air capture
plant is the first of its kind to operate on an industrial
scale.
Campaigners against
global warming have drawn on an arsenal of visually startling tactics over the years, from posing nude on a Swiss glacier to
scaling smokestacks
at coal - fired power
plants.
One of the technologies the scenarios took as necessary was rapid
global adoption of systems that capture and store carbon dioxide from power
plants — none of which have been tested
at anything remotely close to a
scale the atmosphere would notice.
Benjamin Sulman − a biologist
at Indiana University, but then of the Princeton University Environmental Institute in the US − and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change that they have developed a new computer model to examine what really happens, on a
global scale, when
plants colonise the soil and start taking in moisture and carbon from the atmosphere.
If nuclear
plants were being
scaled up globally
at the rate France and Sweden did in the 1970s and 1980s, then I would probably be a «lukewarmer» — somebody who believes that humans are causing
global warming, but that it probably won't get too hot, or be that bad.
String inverters
at scale: The
global solar industry has seen in the past few years how string inverters are increasingly displacing central inverters in multi-MW PV power
plants.