Business
Rolling blackouts are costing South Africa dearly. The electricity crisis is a barrier to growth, destroys investor confidence and handicaps almost every economic activity. It has raised input costs for producers and retailers, ...
Jun 2, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Electric vehicle advocates say the cars ultimately have a smaller carbon footprint than their fossil-fueled counterparts and could resolve our energy concerns for good. Well, fair enough, but questions arise when we dig into ...
May 25, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
A South African town has been left fuming after a legal battle with a state-owned power utility forced its solar plant to dump desperately needed electricity in a country suffering a record energy crisis.
May 18, 2023
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Business
While upstate New Yorkers are evenly split on utility-scale solar farms, naysayers object partly due to a perception that rural residents unfairly bear the burden of meeting downstate urban energy demands without compensation, ...
May 4, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
If you have lived in a home with a trampoline in the backyard, you may have observed the unreasonably tall grass growing under it. This is because many crops, including these grasses, actually grow better when protected from ...
Apr 27, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
In Colombia's far north, wind farm expansion is unsettling the Indigenous Wayuu inhabitants of a semi-desert region earmarked as an El Dorado of renewable energy.
Apr 5, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
President Joe Biden's administration is making $450 million available for solar farms and other clean energy projects at the site of current or former coal mines, part of his efforts to combat climate change.
Apr 4, 2023
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Engineering
Lower electricity costs for consumers and more reliable clean energy could be some of the benefits of a new study by the University of Adelaide researchers who have examined how predictable solar or wind energy generation ...
Mar 24, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
National and global plans to combat climate change include increasing the electrification of vehicles and the percentage of electricity generated from renewable sources. But some projections show that these trends might require ...
Mar 15, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
In a world of finite land, solar farms can take up a lot of space. But there's a solution for that scarcity: panels that float.
Mar 9, 2023
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