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4 days 13 hours agoCitizens Allied for Integrity and Accountability
Songbirds' reproductive success is reduced overall by natural gas compressor noise - just one aspect of noise stress from gas&oil activities. -- Novel research reveals bluebirds, tree swallows seemingly ignore noise at first but pay later...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210218180201.htmSome songbirds are not dissuaded by constant, loud noise emitted by natural gas pipeline compressors and will establish nests nearby. The number of eggs they lay is unaffected by the din, but their reproductive success ultimately is diminished.
2 weeks 2 days agoCitizens Allied for Integrity and Accountability
The prediction of the fate of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water recycling with urban stormwater and treated wastewater is important since PFAS are widely used, persistent, and have potential impacts on human health and the environment. These alternative water sources have...
2 weeks 4 days agoCitizens Allied for Integrity and Accountability
PFAS, a toxic group of industrial chemicals, are now pervasive in the environment including in the bodies of nearly every human tested.
3 weeks 1 day agoCitizens Allied for Integrity and Accountability
There is general familiarity with some chemicals and the risks these chemicals pose to human health and the environment. If trichloroethylene (TCE)…
2 months 6 days agoCitizens Allied for Integrity and Accountability
"One way to harness solar energy is by using solar electricity to split water molecules into oxygen & hydrogen. The hydrogen produced by the process is stored as fuel... To split water molecules into their component parts, a catalyst is necessary, but the [current] catalytic materials...are not efficient..." The new catalyst uses cobalt and titanium, much more abundant in nature than the precious metals now use -- "a major milestone toward global clean energy."
phys.org/news/2020-12-breakthrough-energy-technology.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly-nwletterResearch breakthrough could transform clean energy technology
By some estimates, the amount of solar energy reaching the surface of the earth in one year is greater than the sum of all the energy we could ever produce using non-renewable resources. The technology necessary to convert sunlight into electricity has developed rapidly, but inefficiencies in the st...
2 months 1 week agoCitizens Allied for Integrity and Accountability
"Organic energy" is a form of solar energy that "manages low light, indoor light, diffused light, any form of light. If I'm sitting here in the office, I'm able to produce power because I don't necessarily need direct sunlight to do that... All the applications that you would normally see done for a heat gain application we can now do with ORENgE panels. Not only do you get the benefit of the heat gain, but we're also now generating the power..."
abcnews.go.com/US/form-solar-energy-enter-us-market/story?id=74821388New form of solar energy to enter US market
Organic energy uses a thin film panel to capture the sun's rays and converts it to power, similar to traditional solar power.
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3 months 4 days agoCitizens Allied for Integrity and Accountability
"Researchers...found that estimated exposures to most PFASs through crops exceed values of human health toxicity... [and] concluded that even if irrigation water meets the contamination standards for drinking water, the vegetables grown in the water may not be fully protected from PFOA exposure." - WHY TAKE THESE RISKS FOR THE Farmers Union Canal??
Study: Vegetables irrigated by PFAS-contaminated water exposed to the chemicals
The public might be exposed to concerning levels of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) through vegetables grown with PFAS-impacted water, according to a study by Colorado School of Mines researchers.
3 months 1 week agoCitizens Allied for Integrity and Accountability
Evidence that supposedly safe levels of bacteria in wastewater actually can proliferate in nutrient-rich wasterwater distribution systems... not a good thing for 'treated' water going into important irrigation canals!