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The Light Bandit Launches Kickstarter Campaign To Commercialize Fiber Optic Sunlight System
2014-12-18 04:05:11| fiberopticsonline News Articles
The product video features a device that sits in a window and collects sunlight into clear optical fibers. The sunlight is then “piped” through these flexible fibers to special lamps that spread the sunlight within the home
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Reflecting sunlight into space has terrifying consequences, say scientists
2014-11-26 10:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Fighting global warming by reflecting sunlight back into space risks terrifying consequences including droughts and conflicts, according to three major new analyses of the promise and perils of geoengineering. But research into deliberately interfering with the climate system must continue in search of technology to use as a last resort in combating climate change, scientists have concluded. Billions of people would suffer worse floods and droughts if technology was used to block warming sunlight,...
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Sunlight boosts CO2 from thawing permafrost
2014-09-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Arctic permafrost holds about twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, making its ultimate fate a key factor in the severity and pace of climate change impacts. Now a study reports that old assumptions of how permafrost carbon breaks down in Arctic lakes and rivers may be wrong. Instead of bacteria being responsible for the conversion of carbon into carbon dioxide, the real culprit in many cases is sunlight, according to the research supported by the National Science Foundation. The findings...
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Study shows sunlight, not microbes dominate CO2 production in Arctic
2014-08-26 00:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Just how much Arctic permafrost will thaw in the future and how fast heat-trapping carbon dioxide will be released from those warming soils is a topic of lively debate among climate scientists. To answer those questions, scientists need to understand the mechanisms that control the conversion of organic soil carbon into carbon dioxide gas. Until now, researchers believed that bacteria were largely responsible.
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Sunlight, Not Microbes, Control Carbon Release in the Arctic
2014-08-22 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A vast amount of carbon stored in Arctic permafrost is being converted into carbon dioxide (CO2) once it enters freshwater systems - a process that is worrying experts tracking climate change. This process was long thought to be enabled by microbial activity, but a new study identifies that sunlight itself might be the true culprit. Traditional permafrost is frozen water trapped in soil in a region that never warms enough to the point that the ground will thaw. However, in the wake of a changing...
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