A skeptic’s take on beaming power to Earth from space - Why we shouldn’t try to stick solar plants where the sun always shines
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Powering homes with PVT energy, Stirling engines, battery storage
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PG&E rates: new fee would change monthly Californian electricity charges
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AI to drive natural gas boom as utilities face surging data center demand
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America’s wind power production drops for the first time in twenty-five years
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Commercial operation marks completion of Vogtle expansion
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A golden age of renewables is beginning, and California is leading the way
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Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem.
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Solar power is changing life deep in the Amazon
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Does light itself truly have an infinite lifetime?
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Venezuela to accelerate cryptocurrency shift as oil sanctions return
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Connecting solar to the grid is harder than you think
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Networked geothermal is catching on in Minnesota
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US aiming to ‘crack the code’ on deploying geothermal energy at scale
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Norwegian court finds police acted unreasonably in fining activists who blocked government buildings
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You're wrong about Aptera's car. It's ridiculously efficient (and solar powered).
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Terraform Industries converts electricity and air into synthetic natural gas for the first time
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Why crypto could be green power's unlikely new best friend
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California is preparing to defend itself — and the nation — against Donald Trump 2.0
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Joe Biden administration announces $1.5 billion loan for first reopening of a shuttered US nuclear plant
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The true cost of offshore wind (and its crisis): what can we learn?
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Natural gas is scamming America
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Climate sustainability through a dynamic duo: green hydrogen and crypto driving energy transition and decarbonization
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How to escape from the Iron Age? We cannot lower carbon emissions if we keep producing steel with fossil fuels.
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When you make a mathematical knot using elastic material you get jumping loops, and challenging puzzles
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Joe Biden administration commits $6B to cut US emissions from high-carbon industries
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Germany’s solar panel industry, once a leader, is getting squeezed
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100,000 years and counting – how do we tell future generations about highly radioactive nuclear waste repositories?
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Connecticut, USA wants to penalize insurers for backing fossil-fuel projects
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Industrial-scale thermal storage unit in Pornainen, southern Finland, will be the world's biggest sand battery when it comes online within a couple of years
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How a solar revolution in farming is depleting world’s groundwater
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Hydropower can be an environmental and human disaster – but do the risks have to be so big?
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First Light fusion startup breaks pressure record using giant ‘gun’ machine for projectile fusion attempts
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Solar comprises over half of new energy production, reaching a renewable energy milestone not seen since WWII
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Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion
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Norway and the Sámi people end a dispute over Europe's largest onshore wind farm – deal includes a future-oriented solution that safeguards reindeer farming rights
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Canada to expedite approval of new nuclear projects, energy minister says
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Rooftop solar drives out coal, wind and grid-scale solar in Australia
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Why isn’t solar scaling in Africa?
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This is why we don’t recycle wind turbine blades
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The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the US and cost over $1 billion
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Power companies are scrambling to satisfy the needs of data centers and new factories in the US
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The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea
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Scottish company Gravitricity is using the Pyhäjärvi mine in Finland to build its first full-scale prototype gravity energy store
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Denmark's Henrik Stiesdal and Andrew Garrad from the UK share engineering's QEPrize for contributions to the development of wind power
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How nuclear power saved Armenia
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Oil firms forced to consider full climate effects of new drilling, following landmark Norwegian court ruling
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Can hydrogen help the world reach net zero?
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Recommendations on portable power stations
After one too many blackouts for the past few years, we're in the market for a backup power solution. Guidelines include: Would rather have multiple smaller units than one large one. Should be...
After one too many blackouts for the past few years, we're in the market for a backup power solution.
Guidelines include:
- Would rather have multiple smaller units than one large one.
- Should be enough to charge phones, watch a television, run the Keurig. If it can spike up enough to run a heater or keep the fridge from spoiling, that's a bonus.
- Would like to keep it at ~$300 a unit.
We're looking into a whole home generac as well, but this is more of a bandaid trial solution for now.
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Insect populations flourish in the restored habitats of solar energy facilities
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