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What happens when you flush? Study reveals how toilet aerosols reach the breathing zone

Researchers from Flinders University have found that flushing toilets can release aerosols and bioaerosols into the surrounding air, with some studies detecting particles at heights corresponding to adults' breathing zones.

What happens when you flush? Study reveals how toilet aerosols reach the breathing zone

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Carbon capture tech exists. Scaling it up is the hard part

Europe just opened a carbon capture and storage plant billed as the continent's largest. But global climate scenarios call for far more capacity than exists anywhere on Earth.

  • Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology exists but scaling it globally is challenging.
  • Only 77 operational commercial CCS plants worldwide, capturing a fraction of needed CO2.
  • High cost of building new CCS plants requires government subsidies and policy intervention.

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