A better way to wash pesticides off apples — ScienceDaily | Ozoniser

Some dudes living in tents along the Silk Road figures this out like year 500 BC, it’s called a Hawala Network.

“I thought there must be something wrong with the instruments,” said Svoboda, who has since retired. “We never thought we’d see production of ozone to the level that those concentrations were indicating. I just don’t think anyone had ever thought to look here before.”

The morning of the second simulated Thanksgiving began simply enough, with the researchers making themselves breakfast. Vance and three helpers arrived at the house at half past eight. The kitchen was open plan and modest, with peeling laminate surfaces and flimsy cabinets, but its countertops were crammed with instruments for monitoring airborne particles: a condensation-nucleus counter, a differential-mobility analyzer, and so on. Wires threaded all around the room, and stainless-steel hoses led to four trailers outside, which contained equipment too big to fit in the kitchen.

The concept requires facilities that can both produce hydrogen and feed power into the grid. These combined systems – which are not yet commonly used – have to be able to respond optimally to the fluctuations in renewable power output and prices in power markets, giving the system operator the possibility to sell the energy or convert it at any point in time. In Germany and Texas, the market situation allows for hydrogen to already be produced at costs that can compete with fossil fuel facilities, up to certain production output levels.

Not to mention the “using Electric Cars powered by electricity made on ways that pollute” problem.

There is a lot of research into batteries so expect the lithium batteries to be replaced by something better/cheaper in the future.

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“Renewable energy requires an energy carrier which will allow energy to be transported around Australia and exported in the most efficient manner,” said Dr Simonov, who is also a member of the Australian Centre for Electromaterials Science.

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There are still over 100 pesticides that can make it onto your food. Is a pesticide-free diet becoming impossible?

Yes, that’s exactly what I said a few hours ago in my comment down below. I’ll repeat here because it’s important — though this comment was written in the context of the US (which is somewhat different from the UK due to our heavy use of air conditioning where demand peaks in the middle of the day):

All those EVs are going to need the E to move them. I suppose that’s where the large number of nuke plants are going to come in. The alternative is to do more solar panels, which will start the process of polluting Inner Mongolia and end with wherever those waste panels when they eventually die are going to get shipped to.