Tag: Environmental Science & Technology
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Global Solar Photovoltaic Industry Likely Now a Net Energy Producer
For the first time since the boom started, the electricity generated by all of the world’s installed solar photovoltaic (PV) panels last year probably surpassed the amount of energy going into fabricating more modules, according to Michael Dale, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford’s Global Climate & Energy Project (GCEP). With continued technological advances, the global…
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Aging Sewer Infrastructures Need Critical Upkeep Actions
As Marion Divers, a principal author of the study, has pointed out: “You build a sewer system once, put it underground, and unless there’s a catastrophic failure, you may not have a reason to dig it up and make sure it’s not leaking. Now sewers across the United States and in Pittsburgh are aging, and…