Cleaning the air is like 'moving a solar panel from Toronto to Houston'

An international research team has measured the reduction of air pollution due to the Covid-19 shutdown and its impact on solar radiation levels. They found that solar radiation in Delhi, one of the world's most polluted cities, was around 8.3% higher in late March, when the Indian government implemented lockdown measures.Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Germany's Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy have measured the impact of reduced air pollution on solar radiation levels due to the Covid-19 shutdown. A positive impact of the lockdown on ...

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