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Clouds are one of the most uncertain components in numerical weather prediction and climate models. Mixed-phase clouds (those containing both supercooled liquid water and ice) can be especially challenging to represent.

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Geothermal

geothermal

Heat energy from the earth—Geo (earth) + thermal (heat).

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Technologies Office (GTO) has published a set of geothermal heat pump (GHP) case studies to help people better understand GHP systems, installations, and benefits. These 19 studies detail GHP installations in climate zones across the United States, with varying system types, sizes, and end uses.

Argonne’s new tool, WATER for CO2Rue, assesses the water resource impacts of carbon conversion technologies. This innovative tool helps ensure that CO2-to-fuel solutions are developed sustainably, minimizing water use while advancing a low-carbon future.

A machine that removes carbon from the atmosphere may sound like science fiction, but it's one of several carbon dioxide

carbon dioxide (CO2)

An important heat-trapping gas, also known as a greenhouse gas, that comes from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels (such as coal, oil, and natural gas), from wildfires, and natural processes like volcanic eruptions.

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removal (CDR) technologies aimed at achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. While mitigation is the current focus, CDR will eventually address "residual emissions" from sectors like heavy industry and agriculture that are too costly to fully decarbonize.

decarbonize

Decarbonization involves the reduction or eradication of carbon dioxide emissions from specific systems, such as industries, economies, or societies.

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The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility will co-host a student workshop with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), and a consortium of Australian universities from February 2 to 7, 2025, in Tasmania, Australia.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to provide $12 million in new research grants for Atmospheric System Research (ASR), Earth and Environmental Systems Modeling (EESM), and Environmental System Science (ESS) program science in the Southeast United States.

Argonne National Laboratory kicks off first-ever science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) Showcase with STEM and workforce development partners from Chicago’s South Side. The showcase marked a first-of-its-kind event in the area, uniting students, educators and leaders from 20 STEM and workforce development organizations.

New Argonne technology creates sustainable aviation fuel that significantly cuts carbon emissions compared to conventional jet fuel. Made from renewable materials like biomass

biomass

Material that comes from living things, including trees, crops, grasses, and animals and animal waste. Some kinds of biomass, such as wood and biofuels, can be burned to produce energy.

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and agricultural waste, sustainable aviation fuel has enormous potential to decarbonize the aviation industry. But widespread adoption has yet to take off.

Prasanna Balprakash, director of AI programs for the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, discussed advancing climate and weather research through high performance computing

high-performance computing (HPC)

High-performance computing – the most powerful and largest scale computing systems – enables researchers to study systems that would otherwise be impractical, or impossible, to investigate in the real world due to their complexity or the danger they pose

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and artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence

A machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations or decisions influencing real or virtual environments.

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as part of a September 18 panel for the United States Senate.

The Smoky Mountain Computational Sciences and Engineering Conference, entered its third decade with the 21st annual gathering in East Tennessee. Hosted by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, conference attendees gathered in downtown Knoxville to hear from computing leaders who traveled from across the country and internationally to be part of the three-day event.

The National Renewable Energy

renewable energy

Renewable energy comes from unlimited, naturally replenished resources, such as the sun, tides, and wind. Renewable energy can be used for electricity generation, space and water heating and cooling, and transportation.

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Laboratory (NREL) has developed a first-of-its-kind tool that enables hydropower

hydropower

One of the oldest and largest sources of renewable energy, which uses the natural flow of moving water to generate electricity

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operators and developers to estimate the greenhouse gas emissions associated with building and operating closed-loop pumped storage hydropower (PSH) facilities.

Over 60 researchers met for a three-day workshop at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) during August to discuss their progress on shared research projects and explore opportunities to expand their collaborations, which focus on clean energy technologies, climate resilience and related data-science solutions.