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🪤 Young forests could help to capture carbon in climate change fight
(... leave old forests alone, leave young forests alone!)
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-young-forests-capture-carbon-climate.html

Young forests could help to capture carbon in climate change fight
Young forests regrowing from land where mature woodlands have been cut down have a key role to play in removing billions of tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and combating climate change, a new study reveals.

We have to talk about burning trash🗑️🔥
Waste incinerators / waste-to-energy plants that generate electricity and heat are an enormous and often underestimated source of CO2 🏭💨🌎. For example, in Germany, a country where waste-to-energy plants are common, their emissions are higher than those of cement.
Waste incinerator operators will often claim that half of their emissions don't count 🌿 or even that they already have net-negative emissions 🌎. I disagree with both 🧵

Just Stop Burning Trash
Waste-to-energy plants are a massive source of carbon dioxide emissions. Yet, it is not obvious what the best solution for high-emitting incinerators would be. Should incinerators be equiped with carbon capture? How much can recycling rates be improved, and what role should chemical recycling play? And could landfills be a carbon storage solution?

Carbon-Aware Microservice Deployment for Optimal User Experience on a Budget
Kevin Kreutz, Philipp Wiesner, Monica Vitali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21422 …

Carbon-Aware Microservice Deployment for Optimal User Experience on a Budget
The carbon footprint of data centers has recently become a critical concern. So far, most carbon-aware strategies have focused on leveraging the flexibility of scheduling decisions for batch processing by shifting the time and location of workload executions. However, such approaches cannot be applied to service-oriented cloud applications, since they have to be reachable at every point in time and often at low latencies. We propose a carbon-aware approach for operating microservices under hour…

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon UK Home (2007) - Can we really go zero-carbon or negative-carbon in an existing home near London? #lowCarbon #home #microgen -

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon UK Home (2007)
Can we really go zero-carbon or negative-carbon in an existing home near London? #lowCarbon #home #microgen

Reevaluating the electrical impact of atomic carbon impurities in MoS2
James Ramsey, Faiza Alhamed, Jonathan P. Goss, Patrick R. Briddon, Mark J. Rayson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21115

Reevaluating the electrical impact of atomic carbon impurities in MoS2
Transition metal dichalcogenides, a family of two-dimensional compounds, are of interest for a range of technological applications. MoS2, the most researched member of this family, is hexagonal, from which monolayers may be isolated. Under ambient conditions and during growth/processing, contamination by impurities can occur, of which carbon is significant due to its presence in the common growth techniques. We have performed extensive computational investigations of carbon point defects, exami…

Illinois lawmakers vote to limit carbon sequestration near major aquifer, prioritizing protection of drinking water source. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Illinois Lawmakers Vote to Limit Carbon Sequestration Near a Major Aquifer - Inside Climate News
A bill passed by the Illinois legislature could slow the growth of carbon sequestration proposals—and proposals, in particular, for projects located near an aquifer that is the sole source of drinking water in some communities.   If Gov. JB Pritzker signs the law, hundreds of thousands of residents in central Illinois who rely on the Mahomet […]

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Billy Joel:
🎵 Piano Man
#BillyJoel
https://crabman123.bandcamp.com/track/billy-joels-piano-man

foodweb_baywet: Florida cypress wetlands food web (1998)
Networks of carbon exchanges among species in the cypress wetlands of South Florida. One network covers the wet and the other the dry season. Each node represents a taxon (similar to a species), and a directed edge indicates that one taxon uses another as food.
This network has 128 nodes and 2106 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted

On Google's New Backup-and-Sync, and G-Drive: Reviews (2017) - An efficient and simple backup scheme that works for me, that does not carry a big price tag nor carbon footprint. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-backup-energy-efficiency.html

On Googles New Backup-and-Sync, and G-Drive: Reviews (2017)
An efficient and simple backup scheme that works for me, that does not carry a big price tag nor carbon footprint.

foodweb_baywet: Florida cypress wetlands food web (1998)
Networks of carbon exchanges among species in the cypress wetlands of South Florida. One network covers the wet and the other the dry season. Each node represents a taxon (similar to a species), and a directed edge indicates that one taxon uses another as food.
This network has 128 nodes and 2106 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted