The Doughnut Economics website now includes a national doughnuts explorer, allowing users to view how well (or not) their countries fare on the doughnut sustainable economic model.
Captain Peter Hackett of The Royal Air Force has set a world record for the first flight fuelled with synthetic fuel. The flight lasted 21 minutes on fuel made from captured carbon dioxide from the air combined with hydrogen molecules from water.
Information Is Beautiful illustrates the difference between 1.5°C vs 2°C vs 4°C temperature increases when it comes to sea level rises, ocean acidification, heat & food production. Bear in mind 1.5°C is inevitable and the bare minimum that will happen and we are currently on track for 2.4°C temperature increase.
Researchers at ETH Zurich have demonstrated a proof of concept solar power hydro-carbon production system which uses mirrors to heat reaction chambers that harvests CO2 and H2O from the air and converts them into liquid fuels like kerosene or methanol. If the technology was scaled up, 3.8 square kilometers of desert filled with these mirror converters could fuel a daily return flight from New York to London.
The Climate Clock shows that on the current emissions trend, we have 10 years before the planet hits +1.5 degrees warming. Net Zero by 2050 is too late.
NASA have a backup plan to cool Yellowstone's supervolcano in case it gets close to erupting, by drilling holes in the sides and pumping super-cooled water through the volcano chamber. The exiting water would be heated to around 350°C on the way out from cooling the volcano and on the way into a geo-thermal plant to generate electricity. A win-win, at the cost of $3.46B.
Researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a more efficient method of electrolysis that will allow clean hydrogen to be produced from seawater at scale.
The Energy Transitions Commission published a new report detailing what is involved in order to meet the target of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C degrees.
