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Athens Has A Water Problem, So They Looked Back To The Ancients For Answers

December 19, 2024 admin Agriculture, ATHENS, drought climate change, Greece, Irrigation, policy & politics, Water

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 03:50:44 +0000

It’s been another year of record-breaking heat and dwindling rainfall in Greece. Lake levels have noticeably receded. Struggles in the agriculture sector to irrigate make crop production tenuous. Wildfires have complicated water scarcity problems, because, as firefighters battle the infernos, the water they use depletes already weakened supplies. Water reservoirs … [continued]

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1-Gigawatt Offshore Solar PV Project & 3-Gigawatt Solar Plant on Coal Site — CHN Energy News

December 15, 2024 admin Agriculture, China, chn energy, clean power, Solar energy, solar power plants

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 04:57:16 +0000

The scale of solar projects has gotten unfathomable. About 10 years ago, I visited a 100-megawatt solar power plant in Crimea, Ukraine. You could ride around the solar power facility on a 4-wheeler for about 15 minutes. The solar panels went further than I could see. 100 megawatts is tiny … [continued]

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Italy: 1.5 Gigawatts for Agrivoltaics

December 14, 2024 admin Agriculture, agrivoltaics, clean power, Italy, Solar energy, solar power plants

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:57:00 +0000

Agrivoltaics have been all the rage this year, and perhaps they’re raging nowhere more than in Italy. Italy just recently held its first ever tender for agrivoltaics, and it was a big one! Bel Paese awarded contracts for 1.5 gigawatts of agrivoltaics solar projects within its borders. That’s spread across … [continued]

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Dam Removal Revitalizes Salmon In Win For Native Tribes

December 13, 2024 admin Agriculture, clean power, dam removal, dams, hydroelectric, klamath river, policy & politics, usfws, Water

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 23:45:14 +0000

If you read One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest years ago, you may recall how Chief Bromden’s psychosis originated with the loss of his people’s fishing habitat due to the construction of a monstrous dam. Ken Kesey brought the loss of annual fish runs of the Columbia River, estimated at … [continued]

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France Reaches 23.7 GW of Solar Power

December 11, 2024 admin Agriculture, clean power, France, france solar energy, france solar power, market research, research, rooftop solar, Solar energy, solar power plants

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 01:15:31 +0000

France is among the top nations for significant growth in solar energy generation in recent years, and that continued in the third quarter. The Ministry of Ecological Transition has shared the most recent data from its third-quarter (Q3) 2024 solar photovoltaic energy dashboard. “As of September 30, 2024, [power from … [continued]

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Truth In Food Labeling Would Reveal Hidden Harms To Biodiversity, Including Humans

December 11, 2024 admin Agriculture, FOOD, HEALTH, policy & politics, usda

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 14:58:55 +0000

Should we let businesses that contaminate community water systems write their own rules for what counts as unhealthy? Should we allow factories to spew dangerous emissions into the air? Should we turn our backs when employers force workers to endure dangerous conditions? Of course not. We want to protect each … [continued]

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Mercedes-Benz Seeks Sustainable EV Battery Made From Rice Hulls

December 10, 2024 admin Agriculture, artificial graphite, batteries, bioeconomy, biowaste, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, graphite, green economy, hard carbon, lithium-ion batteries, mercedes, Mercedes Benz, palm oil, rice, Waste management

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2024 01:37:05 +0000

The humble rice hull could provide EV battery makers with a more sustainable, bio-based graphite supply chain that outperforms conventional graphite, too.

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Small US State Launches Game-Changing Agrivoltaic Project

December 5, 2024 admin Agriculture, agrivoltaic, agrivoltaics, bifacial solar panels, clean power, community solar, Farmers, farming, farms, green economy, New Jersey, pollinators, rutgers university, soil moisture, Solar energy, solar panels, solar power plants

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 21:15:20 +0000

Space-saving bifiacial PV technology is a new addition to the dual-use agrivoltaic movement, which enables farmers to continue working their land while realizing income from solar projects.

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Solar Project Converts Cranberry Bog Into An Efficient Power Source

December 4, 2024 admin Agriculture, batteries, clean power, community solar, community solar gardens, Energy Storage, lithium-ion batteries, Solar energy, solar gardens, syncarpha capital

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 04:00:22 +0000

Repurposing airfields, building on landfills, and blending with cranberry bogs, Syncarpha Capital wants to change the energy scene. Syncarpha Capital’s aim is to transform the energy landscape by reducing or completely removing obstacles to the mass use of solar energy and energy storage in the United States. Recently, a couple … [continued]

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Why I Am A Vegetarian: A Life Journey Toward Interconnectedness

December 3, 2024 admin Agriculture, Cancer, carbon emissions, HEALTH, SCIENCE, vegetarian, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 20:24:38 +0000

A vegetarian diet seems unusual at best and anti-patriotic at worst to many folks. But I haven’t eaten red meat since 1980, and I’ve been able to accrue a whole lotta benefits from my decision to focus on eating plants — and so has the planet. Here’s the story of … [continued]

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