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Obama administration unveils plan to triple solar capacity in subsidized housing
The Obama administration is moving forward with new projects to expand the use of ever-cheaper solar power in America. This time it's a plan to bring solar panels to America's lower and middle class,...
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Japan is converting defunct golf courses into solar power sites
This is a brilliant idea:The company Kyocera has plans to transform Japan’s forgotten golf courses into sites of alternative energy. These open green spaces were in high demand in the 1980s, but have...
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Hillary News & Views 7.27: Climate Change, Upping the Capital Gains Tax, and...
Hope everybody had a wonderful weekend!Today's edition of Hillary News & Views covers a preview of Clinton's upcoming proposals to tackle climate change, some news and analysis about her capital...
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Sunday Train: Making An Energy Revolution
Writing for Politico, "Energy Visionary" Vaclav Smil writes in Revolution? More like a crawl:Undoubtedly, the U.S. is experiencing two notable energy transitions, from coal to natural gas and from...
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Going Nuclear on CO2
The argument in favor of nuclear power at this point is pretty obvious: global warming is bad news, so a major power source that doesn't emit greenhouse gasses sounds good, right? An odd...
View ArticleUtility Scale Solar PV Music Video? Yep!
Want to get the fossil fuel industry out of our government? Tell your state government to mandate Solar for your local utility. The price of Solar power is falling faster than anyone expected. And...
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How Hot Is It Going To Get?
If we don't begin phasing out fossil fuels this decade, temperatures will rise to unlivable levels within the lifetimes of our children. The most commonly asked question about global warming is, “How...
View ArticleGoogle Takes Huge Step Toward Realizing Solar Panels on Every Home
Other than a mention in The Evening Blues, I have not seen a diary for this story, one that I think deserves more recognition.Google is trying to take over America’s rooftops (with solar...
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India's Cochin International Airport now runs on 100% solar power
6 months and $10 million dollars India has very big solar-powered aspirations. There are plans to build the world's largest floating solar farm. Cochin International Airport is India's fourth-largest...
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Salt Lake City's soccer stadium now gets a whopping 73% of power needs from...
A bright future ahead for Rio Tinto Stadium and the community. Major League Soccer is busy working with ownership and cities across the country to build new stadiums for the growing league and fan...
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Can Renewable Energy Projects and Native Habitats Co-exist on California...
How and where can solar, wind and geothermal energy facilities be developed on 22 million acres of California desert land with the best protection of and least potential harm to native habitats? Desert...
View ArticleNuclear Deal With Iran Means That Iran Will be Going Solar
After all the gloomy and sickening news lately, here’s some news to cheer you up: German Company Plans 1.25 GW Solar Power Capacity In Iran November 18th, 2015 by Smiti Mittal Iran continues to attract...
View ArticleA plan for 100% renewable energy worldwide by 2050
Scientific American published an intriguing story yesterday, 139 Countries Could Get All of their Power from Renewable Sources. It explores a global blueprint for converting to renewable energy...
View ArticleThe nuclear industry’s COP 21 dilemma: 100% renewables is attainable
If you think you’ve been seeing a lot more pro-nuclear propaganda in the media than usual in the past couple of weeks, well, it’s not your imagination. The nuclear industry and its champions are out in...
View ArticleNow THAT'S how you do solar energy
The current winner in the renewable energy push has to be the country of Morocco, which is building a solar energy plant that will leave every other effort in the dust. Or maybe we should say, in the...
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U.S. Wind & Solar Power Get a Huge Surprise Boost
In an unexpected show of reason and bipartisanship the U.S. congress renewed federal tax credits for investments in wind and solar power for 5 years. The surprise extension will lead the the...
View ArticleGerman Spiegel Magazine Ranks U.S. as one of the World's Future Energy...
The German Spiegel Magazine has a fascinating, informative article up that details the transformative ongoing and future shift of the global power structure in energy generation. The main thesis of...
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Top Comments: Solar Array Update Edition
Last July, we had an array of 27 photovoltaic panels installed on the roof of our house. I wrote about their installation and early performance back in August. That was back before I had gotten any...
View ArticleScientists have achieved a cheaper solar cell with very good efficiency
Scientists from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have published a paper in Nature Energy outlining their engineering of a new hole-transporter for perovskite solar cells. They have been...
View ArticleRenewable energy competes in the marketplace
In a column today, Joe Romm reports on (and explains) the changing technology and economics of renewable energy. For example, Germany now gets 20% of its energy from renewable sources.Many innovations...
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