Apr 13, 2023 | Environment, Featured, Solar, Wind
Outside Denver, in a 9-mile-long canal that sends water to the local water treatment plant, small turbines spin as the water flows by. As they spin, they send energy to the water company so it can rely less on the electric grid. This new iteration of hydropower looks...
Apr 6, 2023 | Featured, Solar
Vice President Kamala Harris is set to announce an agreement for what the Biden administration calls the largest community solar effort in U.S. history, enough to power 140,000 homes and businesses. Harris is visiting the Qcells solar panel factory outside Atlanta on...
Mar 16, 2023 | Featured, Power, Solar
Floating photovoltaic systems, or “floatovoltaics,” provide electricity and reduce evaporation. Plus, you don’t need to clear land for a solar farm. A new study by an international team of researchers shows just how useful wide-scale floatovoltaics could be. They...
Jan 5, 2023 | Satellites, Solar, Space
Harnessing the power of the sun is all the rage right now. At the end of 2022, US scientists announced a nuclear fusion breakthrough that could, in a few decades, see a clean, renewable and essentially unlimited energy source powering the world. In reality,...
Jan 5, 2023 | Featured, Solar, Space
Following over a decade of research, including two years of testing origami-inspired components, a small prototype satellite designed to harvest solar energy launched yesterday morning aboard SpaceX’s most recent Falcon 9 rocket...
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