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  05 February 2024 | Open Access

  Avoiding ecosystem and social impacts of hydropower, wind, and solar in Southern Africa’s low-carbon electricity system

  Avoiding the most damaging land use and freshwater impacts of solar PV, wind, and hydropower development while halving carbon emissions by 2040 in the Southern Africa region is not only possible but incurs only modest (3-6%) system cost increases.

  • Grace C. Wu
  • , Ranjit Deshmukh
  •  & Kudakwashe Ndhlukula

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  13 January 2024 | Open Access

  Accurate nowcasting of cloud cover at solar photovoltaic plants using geostationary satellite images

  Accurate nowcasting of cloud cover or fraction and its movement remains a significant challenge for stable solar photovoltaic electricity generation. Here, the authors combine continuous radiance images with high spatio-temporal resolutions to develop a nowcasting algorithm for predicting cloud cover at a leading time of 0–4 h.

  • Pan Xia
  • , Lu Zhang
  •  & Shengjie Jia

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  02 May 2023 | Open Access

  A quinary WTaCrVHf nanocrystalline refractory high-entropy alloy withholding extreme irradiation environments

  Refractory high entropy alloys (RHEAs) have recently been developed in the context of high-temperature and severe environmental applications. Here the authors, by combining simulation and experiments, develop an irradiation resistant, thermally stable, and strong RHEA for nuclear application.

  • O. El Atwani
  • , H. T. Vo
  •  & E. Martinez

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  06 July 2021 | Open Access

  Solar energy and regional coordination as a feasible alternative to large hydropower in Southeast Asia

  Hydropower dams in the Lower Mekong basin have profound impact on the riverine ecosystems. Here the authors use strategic dam planning and power system modelling to show that there are economically and technically feasible alternatives to these dams with solar energy and power trading.

  • Kais Siala
  • , Afm Kamal Chowdhury
  •  & Stefano Galelli

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  27 August 2020 | Open Access

  Diffusion of flue gas desulfurization reveals barriers and opportunities for carbon capture and storage

  The historical diffusion of SO₂ control technology gives insights into the potential uptake of carbon capture and storage. Here the authors show that the global diffusion of flue gas desulfurization technology was very fast at times, especially for retrofit, and even after materiality, but strongly depended on regulation.

  • Stijn van Ewijk
  •  & Will McDowall