Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:26:50 +0000
Climate change is a factor in the increase in losses from fires, storms, and flooding, but it is not the only factor, some scientists argue.
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Read moreCredit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 02:58:59 +0000
Some 295,000 plugin vehicles were registered in Europe in September, rising 6% YoY, which represents the EV market’s return to growth for the first time since April. This is even more significant when you consider the overall market fell by 4%, to 1.1 million units. Interestingly, BEVs are the ones … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:15:12 +0000
The latest research claims gas stoves kill up to 40,000 people a year in the EU and UK. So why are so many committed to using them?
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:03:50 +0000
In the original Superman film (1978), an alien raised by humans finds out that he’s got a space family that he knows little about. After the death of his father, he takes a strange crystal (which had been calling out to him) from his foster family’s farm and makes a … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 01:47:30 +0000
One of my life’s ongoing inner ruminations is considering options for transportation. (The welcome influence of CleanTechnica.) If walking is a timely option, I prefer to do it. For the simple reason that I always—I mean always—feel better after going for a walk. Walking restores vitality that is lost after … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 23:53:51 +0000
The National Association of City Transportation Officials believes that scooters are here to stay. They offer easy access to clean, roomy bike lanes as well as off-road and on-road routes. To avoid car culture, you can choose a city with many wide off-street bike trails. They make traveling safer. Or … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:55:54 +0000
Why are solar power and wind power dominating new power installations? Because they’re cheaper. The problem with some big purchases people make, and plenty of little purchases, is we look at the upfront cost of something instead of the long-term, lifetime cost. The good thing about purchases of big power … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 12:42:20 +0000
Unsurprisingly, when it comes to hydrogen, the more real-world data collection and analysis that is done and published, the worse it looks. The latest black eye for the tiny molecule that so many love is in the efficiency of making hydrogen at refueling stations. The Hydrogen Research and Fueling Facility … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 03:55:20 +0000
It’s truly impossible to comprehend the scale of solar power deployment in China these days. When I saw how much solar power China had installed in the first 9 months of the year, I thought I must be reading something wrong. I checked a few times. But, indeed, China’s National … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:49:13 +0000
The Biden White House has kicked off a new AI national security mission with the White House’s “first-ever National Security Memorandum (NSM) on Artificial Intelligence (AI).” With all the talk about AI filling the intertubes, apparently, the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) decided it was … [continued]
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