To Cut Emissions to Zero, U.S. Needs to Make Big Changes in Next 10 Years
New research details major infrastructure work including immense construction projects that would need to start right away to achieve Biden’s goal of zero emissions by 2050.
To meet its goal of being carbon neutral by 2050, the United States will need to invest broadly in energy infrastructure.Credit.Beth Coller for The New York Times
Dec. 15, 2020
If the United States wants to get serious about tackling climate change, the country will need to build a staggering amount of new energy infrastructure in just the next 10 years, laying down steel and concrete at a pace barely being contemplated today.
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IMAGE: A Princeton-led team of physicists have discovered that, under certain conditions, interacting electrons can create what are called topological quantum states, which, has implications for many technological fields of study, especially. view more
Credit: Kevin Nuckolls, Department of Physics, Princeton University
Electrons inhabit a strange and topsy-turvy world. These infinitesimally small particles have never ceased to amaze and mystify despite the more than a century that scientists have studied them. Now, in an even more amazing twist, physicists have discovered that, under certain conditions, interacting electrons can create what are called topological quantum states. This finding, which was recently published in the journal
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IMAGE: Since the discovery that atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations were lower during past ice ages, the cause has been a mystery. Now, Princeton geoscientists Danny Sigman and Ellen Ai (seen. view more
Credit: Laura Pedrick
The last million years of Earth history have been characterized by frequent glacial-interglacial cycles, large swings in climate that are linked to the growing and shrinking of massive, continent-spanning ice sheets. These cycles are triggered by subtle oscillations in Earth s orbit and rotation, but the orbital oscillations are too subtle to explain the large changes in climate. The cause of the ice ages is one of the great unsolved problems in the geosciences, said Daniel Sigman, the Dusenbury Professor of Geological and Geophysical Sciences. Explaining this dominant climate phenomenon will improve our ability to predict future climate change.