by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Energy
MIT Scientists Have Invented a #Solar Cell as Light as a Soap Bubble [link]
New study finds fully automating self-driving cars could actually be worse for carbon emissions [link]
How the US just undermined India’s local solar energy program [link]
The California natural gas leak was equivalent to the emissions of over half a million cars [link]
The case for South Australia taking nuclear waste [link] …
First Tesla Powerwall systems installed in Germany [link]
“Cleaning up China’s Ports: Shenzhen Explores Fuel Switching and Onshore Power” [link]
Creating Fuel from Seawater [link]
Fungi from goats’ guts could lead to better biofuels [link]…
Cleaner, safer nuclear power in the race to replace fossil fuels [link]
Microgrids protect small towns from power outages, high energy costs [link]
Bill Gates is optimistic about our energy future, so long as we wisely invest more in R&D. [link] …
Africa is dark because it is poor – annual Gates letter zooms in on energy poverty: [link] …
A small island in the Indian Ocean offers big lessons on clean power [link]
Analysis of enabling renewable energy innovation via market alternatives rather than net metering regulation. Technological advances spur need for deregulated electricity market [link]
Opening our federal lands to #energy production would generate $3.9 trillion in tax revenue over the next 37 years [link]
The best energy-debate I’ve seen in a long time by protagonists @ShellenbergerMD @KenCaldeira [link]
Clean Power Plan: Congress backs court challenge to Obama’s climate plan [link]
Water
World’s large river deltas continue to degrade from human activity [link]
New York City’s nuclear power plant leaking radioactive flow’ into Hudson River [link]
India’s govt wants to make hydro even MORE easy to build: [link]
A lot of great ideas on how to get plastics out of the #ocean, but what will it really take? [link]
Food
Excellent article on salmon recovery [link]
Food Security: Improving Soil Health in Africa [link]
What boosts uptake of clean #cookstoves? Review of behaviour change approaches & techniques [link]
Looming Ethiopia famine highlights vulnerability to climate change [link]Filed under: Week in review