There are about 20 free-to-read items in this week’s Fix the News. Among the items behind the paywall:
— Twenty-three countries have reduced their plans for building coal-fired power plants and 35 nations have eliminated coal from their plans entirely in the decade since the Paris Agreement on climate change, reports CarbonBrief. And China and India, the world’s largest coal consumers, have reduced their planned coal capacity by more than 60 percent.
As the fossil fuel that emits the most carbon dioxide when burned, coal long has been viewed by many as requiring a rapid phaseout, Carbon Brief says.
— “Despite state leadership opposed to climate action,” Florida passed California last year in new utility-scale solar capacity plugged into its grid, says Canary Media.
— By twisting stainless steel like a towel, Chinese researchers have doubled its strength, making it as much as 10,000 times more resistant to metal fatigue and strong enough for aerospace uses, reports the website Interesting Engineering. The study is published in the journal Science.
— “Despite state leadership opposed to climate action,” Florida passed California last year in new utility-scale solar capacity plugged into its grid, says Canary Media.
— By twisting stainless steel like a towel, Chinese researchers have doubled its strength, making it as much as 10,000 times more resistant to metal fatigue and strong enough for aerospace uses, reports the website Interesting Engineering. The study is published in the journal Science.
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