EE Occasions Establishes Local weather Options Analysis Heart

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Our planet is altering quickly as a result of local weather change, and EE Occasions has responded by establishing a Local weather Options Analysis Heart, led by Glenn Weinreb, our new local weather contributor.

Who’s Glenn Weinreb?

Forty years in the past, whereas {an electrical} engineering pupil at MIT, Weinreb based GW Devices (GWI), an organization that designs and manufactures laptop {hardware} and software program merchandise. Whereas at GWI, Weinreb helped arrange 1000’s of various analysis and manufacturing tasks, since they used his merchandise.

In 2019, Weinreb awoke with an epiphany. He was uninterested in chasing cash as an entrepreneur, and he felt his job was meaningless. He thought of how his background gave him a singular perspective of R&D and manufacturing—and he thought of how the world’s response to the local weather downside was fallacious. Incorrect in some ways.

Subsequently, he shaped Manhattan 2 (MA2), a local weather analysis non-profit company. From right here, Weinreb sponsored and managed 25 college R&D college students, and revealed extensively on local weather options.

EE Occasions welcomes Weinreb as our newest local weather contributor.

How a lot does it price to repair the local weather downside?

Many so-called local weather initiatives are usually not efficient—extra particularly,  not price efficient. It is because folks promote local weather to generate profits, and the impression of their efforts are not often quantified. This begs the next query: If we resolved local weather change on the lowest price to society, what would we do bodily, and the way a lot wouldn’t it price?

This query is of profound significance, but not often mentioned. We discover this in our first article within the Local weather Options collection, “How A lot Does it Price to Repair the Local weather Downside?”

Do we want a brand new local weather R&D laboratory?

Resolving local weather change includes constructing carbon-free infrastructure, resembling photo voltaic farms and wind farms. That is more likely to price the world on the order of $100 trillion over a number of a long time. In idea, we will scale back this price by spending extra billions of {dollars} on R&D. This begs two questions:

1. What may we develop that’s not already being labored on, and would have a major impression?
2. Do we want a brand new R&D laboratory tasked with fixing the local weather downside?

We discover these questions in “Do We Want a New Local weather R&D Laboratory?”

Is the local weather downside worse than we thought?

Roughly 30 years in the past, local weather scientists acknowledged the world must keep away from 1.5 levels Celsius (2.7 levels Fahrenheit) world temperature enhance, relative to 150 years in the past, or “dangerous issues” will occur. Their warning was primarily based on local weather fashions. Nevertheless, most local weather fashions don’t match at this time’s observations (e.g. air and ocean temperatures). Due to this fact, they’re most likely fallacious, to some extent. Additionally, this implies the “keep away from 1.5 levels Celsius” suggestion might be fallacious too, since it’s primarily based on these fashions. We discover this in “Is the Local weather Downside Worse than We Thought?,” “How Dangerous are Tipping Factors?,” and “Understanding the Disaster of Local weather Science.”

Why spraying sulfur into the sky isn’t loopy

We primarily have two local weather issues. One is world warming from carbon dioxide, and the opposite is world warming from tipping factors.

We will clear up the carbon dioxide downside by changing coal, oil, and fuel with photo voltaic, wind, hydro, and nuclear. Nevertheless, this may most likely not clear up the tipping level downside. We appear to be tipping too quick. Due to this fact, we most likely must replicate a tiny proportion of daylight again into outer area. There are a number of methods to do that, certainly one of which is to inject sulfur into the environment, above the place airplanes usually fly. We discover this in “Why Spraying Sulfur into the Sky is Not Loopy.”