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Materials science as key enabler for clean energy transition

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If you don’t change direction, you will end up where you are heading,” said Lao Tzu, the father of Taoism. The global emissions of CO 2 doubled from 1975 to 2015, and are projected to triple by 2040 if we stay on our present course4. Where are we heading? Illustration courtesy of Paloma Liu. Chen et al.

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A Skeptic’s Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space

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But that might be mitigated, in theory, if space solar displaced fossil fuels and helped the world transition to clean electricity. NASA’s 2024 report used sensitivity analysis to look for advances, however implausible, that would enable orbital solar power to be commercially competitive with nuclear fission and other low-emissions power.

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