Clean, affordable energy supply requires balancing technology and regulation
Climate change, if left unchecked, threatens to unravel 200 years of human progress. But building a net-zero carbon economy is within human reach through focused innovation and reaching scale in clean energy technologies and solutions.
The challenges of dealing with climate change and the promising opportunities for action are well known. That's why the world spent a total of $755 billion on reducing emissions in 2021. Our efforts to scale up and invest in clean energy technologies over the next 20 years will determine life on Earth for the next hundred. Data, analysis, and science must back everything we do.
Carbon dioxide levels are thought to be at their highest levels in human history, and while many agree the goal of 1.5°C by 2030 is arbitrary and now unachievable—working to prevent every 0.1°C rise can still give us hope.
Decarbonizing the energy sector
Thirty years ago, 197 countries from around the world got together to ban the gases damaging the Earth's ozone layer. Today, more than 99% of ozone-depleting substances have been phased out, and the ozone layer is on a path to recovery....
Monitor, manage, minimize
Every day, tons of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and other unnoticed emissions leak into the atmosphere, untracked and unmeasured—but not without impact.
The global economy loses more than $8 trillion annually, according to The World Bank. But action to identify its presence and catalog its makeup and levels still lags.
As companies in high-emissions sectors strive to comply with environmental and safety regulations imposed by governments and regulatory agencies, emissions monitoring and quantifying technologies are in high demand....
Common sense
Many companies are offering measuring technologies in the market for measuring emissions. Infrared (IR) gas-detection filters, which are used with an IR beam to detect and quantify gases present in the atmosphere, sit at the very heart of so many of these devices.
IR emitters within the sensor generate beams of IR light. After passing through a sampling chamber, a filter in front of the detector blocks out light not at the desired wavelength. In contrast, the sensor measures the intensity or attenuation. This is then used to determine the concentration based on the absorption of IR radiation as it passes through a volume of the gas...
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