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He said he was invited to join the committee based on his role as an author of three assessment reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and that his work had also been published in the journal Nature. He said the committee’s role was to ensure emissions reductions were measured “scientifically and appropriately”, and he was agnostic about the best way to achieve cuts. … [Read more...] about Coalition quietly adds fossil fuel industry leaders to emissions reduction panel

But in 2011, another panel of experts reviewed Parks’ case and concluded that the jury had been misled. Relying on new standards in burn science — including a phenomenon known as flashover, in which the intense heat of a fire can cause a sudden burst of flames in an enclosed space, obscuring its origin point — they argued that the evidence showed the fire sparked by accident in one spot, the living room, and then spread. … [Read more...] about S.F. lawmaker’s bill would make it easier to challenge expert testimony as science advances

DISCOM troublesThese proposals have to be seen in the context of a continuing centralisation of control over the sector whose main impact in the last 25 years has been to drive up the cost of power purchase to 80% of the total costs of State DISCOMs. At the core of DISCOM woes is the two-part tariff policy, mandated by the Ministry of Power in the 1990s at the behest of the World Bank. As more private developers came forward to invest in generation, DISCOMs were required to sign long-term power purchase agreements (PPA), committing to pay a fixed cost to the power generator, irrespective of whether the State draws the power or not, and a variable charge for fuel when it does. … [Read more...] about A jolt to national energy security

Google’s parent company Alphabet is shutting down Loon, a high-profile subsidiary spun out from its research labs that used hot-air balloons to deliver cellular connectivity from the stratosphere.Nearly a decade after it began the project, Alphabet said Thursday that it pulled the plug on Loon because it did not see a way to reduce costs to create a sustainable business. Along with the self-driving car unit Waymo, Loon was one of the most hyped “moonshot” technology projects to emerge from Alphabet’s research lab, X.“The road to commercial viability has proven much longer and riskier than hoped. So we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Loon,” Astro Teller, who heads X, wrote in a blog post. Alphabet said it expected to wind down operations in “the coming months” with the hope of finding other positions for Loon employees at Alphabet.The idea behind Loon was to bring cellular connectivity to remote parts of the world where … [Read more...] about Google’s hot-air balloon project, providing cell service, is closing down

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