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  1. Silver Nanocatalysts Adapt Reaction Sites for Efficient Energy Conversion

    📰 Original title: Scientists discover a hidden switch inside silver nanocatalysts

    🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
    👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

    View full AI summary en.killbait.com/silver-nanocat

    #science #nanocatalysts #greenhydrogen #energysystems

  2. 🎉 New release v3.5 of our #opensource python package #pyam-iamc for scenario analysis and data visualization of #IntegratedAssessmemt and #EnergySystems models

    Now supporting central-90%-limits for statistical summaries of ensemble diagnostics - a stepping stone towards the next release & reproducible analysis of the #ScenarioCompass ensemble

    github.com/IAMconsortium/pyam/

  3. Climate change reshapes resource adequacy risks and optimal renewable energy siting in wind and solar energy systems

    Davis, S. J. et al. Net-zero emissions energy systems. Science 360, eaas9793 (2018). Article  Google S…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #climatechange #EconomicsandManagement #energy #Energymodelling #Energypolicy #energystorage #EnergySystems #general #RenewableandGreenEnergy #RenewableEnergy #Science
    newsbeep.com/us/767872/

  4. Climate change reshapes resource adequacy risks and optimal renewable energy siting in wind and solar energy systems

    Davis, S. J. et al. Net-zero emissions energy systems. Science 360, eaas9793 (2018). Article  Google Scholar  Wang, …
    #NewsBeep #News #Environment #ClimateChange #EconomicsandManagement #Energy #Energymodelling #energypolicy #energystorage #EnergySystems #environment #general #RenewableandGreenEnergy #renewableenergy #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/695528/

  5. EU Sets Target To Double Electrification Rate, Cut Oil & Gas Use

    The European Union has unveiled the Electrification Action Plan, aiming for electricity to account for 46% of total…
    #Europe #EU #electrification #Energy #EnergySystems #EuropeanUnion #grid #PowerGeneration #renewables
    europesays.com/europe/96113/

  6. Distributional impacts of EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles across European markets

    Automotive Industry (European Commission, 2024); single-market-economy.ec.europ Economic and Market Report: State of the EU Auto Industry—Full-Year 2020 (ACEA,…
    #Europe #EU #economics #EconomicsandManagement #Energy #energypolicy #energystorage #EnergySystems #EuropeanUnion #general #Industry #RenewableandGreenEnergy
    europesays.com/europe/90927/

  7. Climate Technology: Powering the Next Phase of the Green Economy

    The global conversation around climate change has shifted noticeably in the recent years. Once dominated by long- term…
    #Economy #climatechange #climategoals #climatetechnology #energyalternatives #energysystems #greeneconomy #industrialdecarbonization #intlbm #low-carbonalternatives #materialscienceinnovations #scalablesolutions
    europesays.com/3109571/

  8. As AI Reshapes Global Energy Systems, Melbourne Leads Through Engineering Collaboration This article is brought to you by Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB) supported by Business Events Australia.As...

    #Artificial-intelligence #Australia #Energy-systems #University-of-melbourne #Ai-data-centers #Power-grid

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  9. Marine fuel choices and related life-cycle environmental impacts under global shipping policies

    Global energy transition model GET v11 is a sector-coupled, energy system optimization (linear programming), mathematical model based on…
    #NewsBeep #News #Environment #EconomicsandManagement #Energy #energypolicy #energystorage #Energysupplyanddemand #EnergySystems #environment #Environmentalimpact #general #RenewableandGreenEnergy #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/618621/

  10. Marine fuel choices and related life-cycle environmental impacts under global shipping policies

    Global energy transition model GET v11 is a sector-coupled, energy system optimization (linear programming), mathematical model based on…
    #NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #EconomicsandManagement #Energy #energypolicy #energystorage #Energysupplyanddemand #EnergySystems #Environmentalimpact #general #RenewableandGreenEnergy #Science
    newsbeep.com/au/712244/

  11. Improving the stability of monolithic perovskite/silicon tandems against reverse-bias stress using graded dielectric layers

    Liu, J. et al. Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with bilayer interface passivation. Nature 635, 596–603 (2024). Article  Google…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #AU #Australia #EconomicsandManagement #Energy #energypolicy #energystorage #EnergySystems #general #RenewableandGreenEnergy #Science #Solarcells
    newsbeep.com/au/682901/

  12. Improving the stability of monolithic perovskite/silicon tandems against reverse-bias stress using graded dielectric layers

    Liu, J. et al. Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with bilayer interface passivation. Nature 635, 596–603 (2024). Article  Google…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #EconomicsandManagement #energy #Energypolicy #energystorage #EnergySystems #general #RenewableandGreenEnergy #Science #Solarcells
    newsbeep.com/us/654370/

  13. Improving the stability of monolithic perovskite/silicon tandems against reverse-bias stress using graded dielectric layers

    Liu, J. et al. Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with bilayer interface passivation. Nature 635, 596–603 (2024). Article  Google…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #EconomicsandManagement #Energy #energypolicy #energystorage #EnergySystems #general #RenewableandGreenEnergy #Science #Solarcells #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/594275/

  14. Predictors of informed energy policy support across Europe

    Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change (IPCC, 2022). Dahl, R. A. On Democracy (Yale Univ. Press, 1998).…
    #Europe #EU #communication #EconomicsandManagement #Energy #energypolicy #energystorage #EnergySystems #European #general #Psychology #RenewableandGreenEnergy #RenewableEnergy
    europesays.com/europe/42870/

  15. Fascinating article! Well worth a read & a boost!

    “With China, It’s Getting Late Early”

    by Prof. Robert Pape in Escalation Trap on Substack

    “What Americans Are Suddenly Seeing From Trump’s Beijing Trip — And What I Saw Touring China’s Advanced Industries”

    [..]

    “I came away convinced that much of Washington is debating the wrong problem.

    The issue is no longer simply whether China manufactures goods more cheaply than the United States.

    The issue is whether China is beginning to organize innovation itself more effectively than the United States”

    open.substack.com/pub/escalati

    #Press #SocialMedia #China #Innovation #EcoSystems #Universities #AI #Robotics #EnergySystems #Software #Logistics #Manufacturing #Integration #US #Decline #Trump #Beijing #Xi

  16. Chernobyl at 40: What Failure Looks Like Up Close

    By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News

    Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — April 25, 2026

    On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded during a late-night safety test. The test was supposed to answer a technical question. Instead, it answered a human one.

    What happens when people push a complex system past its limits?

    At Chernobyl, the answer was immediate and permanent.

    What actually happened

    The reactor was a Soviet-designed RBMK, a system known to be unstable at low power. Operators were running a test to see whether the turbine could provide enough residual energy to keep cooling systems running in the event of a power loss.

    To do that, they disabled multiple safety systems and forced the reactor into a condition it was not designed to handle. Power levels dropped too far, then surged. Control rods were inserted to shut the system down, but due to design flaws, that action accelerated the reaction instead of stopping it.

    Within seconds, the reactor became uncontrollable. Steam explosions tore it apart. The graphite core ignited. Radioactive material was released into the atmosphere and carried across much of Europe.

    The test ended. The consequences did not.

    The immediate cost

    Two workers died that night. Dozens more, firefighters, plant staff, and emergency responders, were exposed to extreme radiation in the hours that followed. Many of them did not survive.

    The nearby city of Pripyat was evacuated, but not immediately. For hours, people went about their day under a radioactive plume they could not see. Within days, more than 100,000 people were relocated. Entire communities were erased from the map.

    The area around the plant remains restricted decades later.

    The long tail

    Chernobyl did not end in 1986. It stretched across years and borders.

    • Large regions of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia were contaminated
    • Agricultural land was lost or restricted
    • Long-term health impacts remain debated in scale, but not in existence
    • Cleanup and containment have cost hundreds of billions over time

    The site itself is still being managed. The problem was never “fixed.” It was contained.

    Why it failed

    There is no single cause.

    • A reactor design with known instability
    • A test procedure that ignored safe operating conditions
    • Operators under pressure to complete the test
    • A culture that discouraged stopping the process once it began
    • A system that allowed multiple safeguards to be disabled at once

    None of these alone guarantees disaster. Together, they did.

    Chernobyl was not one mistake. It was a chain of decisions, each one narrowing the margin for error, until there was no margin left.

    What it shows

    Chernobyl was not a verdict on nuclear power as a concept. Other countries run reactors safely under different designs and regulatory systems.

    What it was is a clear example of how complex systems fail.

    They do not usually fail because one thing goes wrong.
    They fail because several things go wrong at the same time, and the people involved believe they still have control.

    At Chernobyl, control was assumed long after it was lost.

    The human factor

    The people in that control room were not trying to destroy a reactor. They were trying to complete a test.

    That matters.

    Disasters of this scale rarely begin with intent. They begin with confidence.

    Confidence that the system will respond.
    Confidence that safeguards will hold.
    Confidence that someone would stop the process if it became dangerous.

    At Chernobyl, those assumptions proved false.

    Forty years later

    The reactor is entombed. The surrounding zone is still monitored. The cost continues to accumulate in maintenance, containment, and lost land.

    Chernobyl did not end. It became a condition.

    It is now part of the long-term landscape, both physical and historical.

    Analysis

    Chernobyl is often reduced to a single phrase: human error. That is not wrong, but it is incomplete.

    The deeper lesson is that humans operate complex systems with incomplete information, under pressure, and with a tendency to believe that problems are manageable until they are not.

    That pattern is not unique to one country or one political system. It is a recurring feature of how large, technical systems are handled.

    Chernobyl did not require malicious intent. It required a sequence of ordinary decisions made under the assumption that the system would behave as expected.

    It did not.

    Bottom line

    Chernobyl stands as a durable reminder that when complex systems fail, they do not fail small.

    They fail all at once, and the consequences extend far beyond the point of origin.

    That is the lesson that remains, forty years later.

    For more information about the WPS News project and its long-term archive mission, visit: https://cliffpotts.org

    For more commentary, please see Occupy 2.5 at https://Occupy25.com

    If this work helps you understand what’s happening, help me keep it going: https://www.patreon.com/cw/WPSNews

    References

    International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). “Chernobyl Accident 1986.”
    World Nuclear Association. “Chernobyl Accident 1986.”
    United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR). Reports on Chernobyl.
    World Health Organization (WHO). “Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident.”
    OECD Nuclear Energy Agency. “Chernobyl: Assessment of Radiological and Health Impacts.”

    #Chernobyl #disasterAnalysis #energySystems #nuclearSafety #SovietUnion #Ukraine #WPSNews
  17. 🌱 Exchange, innovation, and collaboration at #OSMSES2026

    Colleagues from our Task Area 5 (nfdi4energy.uol.de/task-areas/) recently participated in the OSMSES 2026 conference, engaging with the international energy research community.

    The focus was on co-simulation and modeling – key building blocks for
    the integrated analysis of complex energy systems.

    #NFDI4Energy #CoSimulation #Modeling #EnergySystems #OpenScience
    #Collaboration

  18. Trump threatens to ‘obliterate’ Iran’s energy sources

    (AP/Gray News) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened widespread destruction of Iran’s energy resources and other…
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #DonaldTrump #endthewar #energysystems #globalsupplies #Iran #president #StraitofHormuz #WarinIran
    newsbeep.com/459869/

  19. Trump threatens to ‘obliterate’ Iran’s energy sources

    (AP/Gray News) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened widespread destruction of Iran’s energy resources and other…
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #DonaldTrump #endthewar #energysystems #globalsupplies #Iran #president #StraitofHormuz #WarinIran
    newsbeep.com/459804/

  20. Contact-triggered molecular interactions enable structural refinement of perovskite layers in solar cells

    Materials Urea, potassium chloride (KCl, 99.999%), thioglycolic acid, hydrochloric acid (HCl, 37%), N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF, …
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #CA #Canada #EconomicsandManagement #Energy #energypolicy #Energyscienceandtechnology #energystorage #EnergySystems #general #Materialsforenergyandcatalysis #RenewableandGreenEnergy #Science #Solarcells
    newsbeep.com/ca/562713/

  21. Contact-triggered molecular interactions enable structural refinement of perovskite layers in solar cells

    Materials Urea, potassium chloride (KCl, 99.999%), thioglycolic acid, hydrochloric acid (HCl, 37%), N,N-dimethylformamide…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #EconomicsandManagement #Energy #energypolicy #Energyscienceandtechnology #energystorage #EnergySystems #general #Materialsforenergyandcatalysis #RenewableandGreenEnergy #Science #Solarcells #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/496753/

  22. Thursday, February 26, 2026

    Explainer: Russia disrupts Ukraine peace talks with timed false accusations -- 1st Ukrainian drone factory starts production in UK -- While global attention is divided, the largest displacement crisis in Europe is deepening -- The problem with counting military losses in Russia's war [Vlogs/videos] ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  23. 🎉 Happy to announce release v3.2 of the #opensource #python package pyam for analysis & plotting of #IntegratedAssessment & #EnergySystems scenarios!

    Highlights:
    - Streamline operations of timeseries data with non-SI units
    - Explicit check for infinite values
    - Fix for scenario categorization

    #pyam_iamc
    github.com/IAMconsortium/pyam

  24. PakhuisB continuation, see notes regentenkamer – social netraw

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=cJJNt4uKDwk&si=6FxznHvyFN-WBxl4 Early adoption phase, scalable or not, big investment and construction phase for relatively small energy output? Debatable, yet applicable for those interested in solar punk stuff. P.o.c. Kees btw coming from an expat this is not or was not just Solarpunk, many zzp'ers small companies unable to work together towards vision 2050/30.

    keesbergsolblog.wordpress.com/

  25. TUMCREATE is celebrating its 15th anniversary! 🎉 It drives research in #electromobility, #sustainablefood, #energysystems, and #healthtech with top partners in Singapore and beyond: go.tum.de/289807

    #innovation

    📷N.Ho

  26. sites.libsyn.com/509443/site

    podcast about energy systems from Gwen Holdmann and Jennifer Pemberton won an #Alaska Press Club award for the Best Narrative Audio Program for their podcast, “Closing the Gap,” covering the history, policy and #science behind the #energysystems we rely on today and those we may adopt…

    Holdmann is the chief scientist and founding director of the Alaska Center for Energy and Power at the U of A, #Fairbanks. Pemberton is a writer and podcast producer based in Juneau.

  27. At our new energy laboratory, technology and #sustainable #energysystems become tangible. Schoolchildren can observe the #energyconsumption of household appliances in real time: go.tum.de/483742 🔌

    #energytransition

    📷J.Forstner

  28. PyPSA is an open-source tool capable of handling a wide range of energy planning problems. That is why we use this open-source tool in our analyses and training.

    Our Head of Research, Harry van der Weijde, showcases PyPSA’s potential and future plans in this presentation. 🎥 youtu.be/CJ8G-xhqo14

    #PyPSA #EnergySystems #EnergyTransition #OpenSource

  29. Just in time before the end of the year…

    🎉 Release 3.0 of our #opensource Python package #pyam_iamc for scenario analysis & #dataviz of emissions, #energysystems and #IntegratedAssessment models…

    Highlights:

    - Implement reading and writing of netcdf files
    - Remove automated sorting of timeseries data for performance improvement
    - Add support for Python 3.13

    github.com/iamconsortium/pyam/

  30. Working with #NUTS administrative EU 🇪🇺 regions is one of the little nuisances in #energysystems modelling and scenario analysis.

    So the #IIASA #ScenarioServices team put together a little #opensource #python utility package so that modelers can focus on #freethemodels and don’t have to spend too much time on data-wrangling…
    #pysquirrel #ScientificSoftware
    github.com/iiasa/pysquirrel

  31. With Energy Forms and Changes, learners will explore the different types of energy using examples from everyday life and then describe how energy can change from one form of energy into another.
    #ConservationofEnergy #EnergySystems #Physics
    phet.colorado.edu/en/simulatio

  32. A great day for #opensource #energysystems analysis!

    Kudos to the team at the 🇺🇸 Energy Information Administration #EIA for releasing the National Energy Systems Model #NEMS as an open-source tool on #GitHub...
    #FreeTheModels for #OpenScience
    github.com/EIAgov/NEMS

  33. Happy to announce...

    🎉 Release 2.2 of our #opensource #python package #pyam_iamc for #dataviz and #scenario analysis of #IntegratedAssessment, #EnergySystems & #MacroEnergy models.

    Highlights:
    - Direct integration with the new #ixmp4 database package
    - More flexible and intuitive signature for data validation and categorization
    - Support for Python 3.12 and migration to poetry & ruff

    github.com/iamconsortium/pyam/

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