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Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative

Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative

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This story was originally published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2006, a group of preeminent scientists met for a two-day conference at the NASA Ames Research Center in California to discuss cooling the Earth by injecting particles into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight into space. […]

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The early solar system was donut-shaped, meteorite study suggests

The early solar system was donut-shaped, meteorite study suggests

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An iron meteorite from the UCLA Meteorite Gallery. (Image credit: UCLA Meteorite Gallery) You’re probably familiar with how the solar system looks today. There are eight officially recognized planets located more or less on the same plane, orbiting the sun. But have you ever given a thought to what it looked like billions of years

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What the biggest solar storm in decades revealed about space system resilience

What the biggest solar storm in decades revealed about space system resilience

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Forecasters were briefing the Federal Emergency Management Agency on May 9 as part of the 2024 Space Weather Tabletop Exercise when they learned a real solar storm was coming. Powerful solar flares and a series of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were headed for Earth. “I’m briefing FEMA Region 8 [in Denver] about real-time space weather

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SolarDuck, RWE install offshore PV pilot in Dutch North Sea

SolarDuck, RWE install offshore PV pilot in Dutch North Sea

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Latest The site will be monitored to assess methods of scaling up offshore floating PV. Image: SolarDuck. European floating solar (FPV) company SolarDuck has installed an offshore FPV pilot site in the Dutch North Sea. Alongside German energy company RWE, the 0.5MWp Merganser FPV site was successfully installed around 1.2km off the coast of Scheveningen

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‘We expect the market will find balance’: JA Solar on supply and demand, pricing and European growth

‘We expect the market will find balance’: JA Solar on supply and demand, pricing and European growth

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Henning Schulz: In recent years we have seen good growth rates in Europe, and we also see them this year. Although there are some voices which say the market may not be as big as had been forecast; forecast was about 90GW, some people say now around 80GW. We are analysing to see what the

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‘As powerful as the oil and gas industry’: Sonia Dunlop on the growth of solar and the GSC

‘As powerful as the oil and gas industry’: Sonia Dunlop on the growth of solar and the GSC

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Latest News , Editors’ Blog , Features “We need to be thinking more globally in terms of our approach to the global supply chain,” said Sonia Dunlop. Image: PV Tech. A collective effort will be required by the global solar sector to realise the potential of the solar PV industry, according to Sonia Dunlop, CEO

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Solar and pumped hydro energy storage projects deemed ‘critical’ in New South Wales, Australia

Solar and pumped hydro energy storage projects deemed ‘critical’ in New South Wales, Australia

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Latest News , Editors’ Blog , Features Other CSSI in NSW include the 2.2GW PHES power station Snowy 2.0 and Oven Mountain, a 600MW/7200MWh, billion-dollar energy storage project. Image: NSW government. The New South Wales (NSW) government has declared six renewable energy projects, including one solar and three pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) sites, as

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