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Building cities with wood would store half of cement industry’s current carbon emissions

Shifting to wood as a building construction material would significantly reduce the environmental impact of building construction. If 80% of new residential buildings in Europe were made of wood inside and out, they would store the equivalent of about half of the cement industry’s annual emissions.

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Face Masks Unlikely to Cause Over-exposure to Carbon Dioxide, Even in Patients with Lung Disease

October 2, 2020 sarah Jonas carbon dioxide (CO2), COVID-19, face masks, Lung Health

New research findings contradict statements linking wearing face masks to carbon dioxide poisoning by trapping CO2. During the COVID-19 pandemic the wearing of face masks has become a highly political issue with some individuals falsely claiming that wearing face masks may be putting people’s health at risk. The study published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society shows otherwise.

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The $500 billion question: what’s the value of studying the ocean’s biological carbon pump?

September 10, 2020 sarah Jonas carbon dioxide (CO2), Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Ocean Science

A new study puts an economic value on the benefit of research to improve knowledge of the biological carbon pump and reduce the uncertainty of ocean carbon sequestration estimates.

Feature Tip Sheet

How JCAP Is Making Solar Fuels Shine

March 3, 2020 sarah Jonas artificial photosynthesis, Berkeley Lab, Caltech, carbon dioxide (CO2), Climate And Energy, Climate Change, coal, Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Energy Office of Science, Electricity, Electrochemical energy storage, Ethanol, Fossil Fuels, Lawrence Berekely National Laboratory, Materials Science, Molecular Foundry, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, NERSC, oil, Petroleum, Photovoltaic, photovoltaic cells, Renewable Energies, renewable energy development, renewable energy storage, renewable energy technology, Semiconductors, Solar Cell, solar fuels, sunlight, sunlight conversion, Sustainable Energy, sustainable energy systems, Sustainable Fuel, Water Splitting

As we look back at a decade of discovery, we highlight 10 achievements by scientists at Berkeley Lab and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis that bring us closer to a solar fuels future.

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Energy Regulation Rollbacks Threaten Progress Against Harmful Ozone

October 25, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Affordable Clean Energy, Air Quality, Air Quality and Health, Attainment, CAFE standards, Carbon Dioxide, carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon dioxide effects, Carbon Emissions, Clean Air Act, Clean Power Plan, Climate Change, Coal fired power plants, Corporate Average Fuel Economy, Executive Order, Forecast, global warming, Global Warming And The Environment, Global Warming Climate Change, Global Warming Concerns, nitrogen oxides, NOX, Noxious, Obama Administration, Ozone, ozone attainment, Ozone Exposure, Ozone Levels, Regulations, Trump Administration

The fight against harmful ozone is under legal threat. Air quality and carbon emissions regulations are currently in limbo in courts and congress, from core legislation from the 1970s to rules from the last U.S. administration. This study models the future losses in the fight to drive down respiratory-damaging, ground-level ozone if the regulations go away.

DOE Science News

First Snapshots of Trapped CO2 Molecules Shed New Light on Carbon Capture

June 27, 2019March 13, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Carbon Capture, carbon dioxide (CO2), Cryo Electron Microscopy, cryo-EM, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A new twist on cryo-EM imaging reveals what’s going on inside MOFs, highly porous nanoparticles with big potential for storing