Energy & Green Tech
Renewable energy is the way of the future, but issues such as variability and surplus generation have so far created headaches in the move to fully utilizing these energy solutions. New research led by Murdoch University, ...
May 30, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Climate change can alter extreme weather events, and these events have the potential to strain, disrupt or damage the nation's grid.
Jan 31, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
A tree killed in a climate-driven drought snaps and severs a power line. A transformer sparks. A downed live wire ignites a pile of dry leaves. Many of the country's most damaging wildfires, including California's deadly ...
Aug 7, 2023
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Business
Concerns are mounting among policymakers and utility companies amid the impact of severe weather on the nation's electrical grids. In recent months, electrical grids in Texas have been tested to the point of near failure. ...
Feb 8, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
During a power outage, we might not think of using the sun as a backup generator. But solar energy is playing a key role in keeping the lights on when the power is knocked out.
Apr 4, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
The good news when Hurricane Ida churned into Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2021 was that levees held up—especially those that were strengthened after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans in 2005. The bad news: In many places, ...
Sep 6, 2021
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Engineering
Another extreme weather event has highlighted the weak points in New Zealand's critical infrastructure. As Cyclone Gabrielle ripped across the North Island, nearly 225,000 people lost power.
Feb 15, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
The race is on to reuse waste as energy in the most effective way possible. Combined heat and power is an old idea for saving fuel with a new imperative to slash emissions. Innovative furnaces based on biofuel systems will ...
Jun 17, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
When a wildfire tore through Briceburg nearly two years ago, the tiny community on the edge of Yosemite National Park lost the only power line connecting it to the electrical grid.
Jun 30, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Some 2.7 million households in Texas were still without power as of Wednesday morning in the wake of extremely cold weather buffeting the region.
Feb 18, 2021
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