Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:45:28 +0000
Severe to exceptional drought has persisted in some areas of the West since the summer of 2020, and it doesn’t look like that’s going to change soon.
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 05:40:08 +0000
Tesla’s new gigafactory near Berlin has secured its water supply and was given the green light to continue its planned production ramp-up, Berliner Zeitung reports. The water association (WSE) said at the very last minute that it will not terminate the supply contract with Tesla as it threatened to do. André Bähler, head of SWE, […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 23:15:03 +0000
Power to the Women: For Women’s History Month, NREL Celebrates the Powerful Women of Water Power This article is the first of two in a Women’s History Month series that showcases a handful of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) outstanding women researchers in water power. “Are women really interested in renewable energy technologies?” asked an NREL […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 22:03:49 +0000
Six teams of marine energy innovators are angling to free their ocean-observing technologies from their tethers and set sail to test their recharging abilities. The multistage Powering the Blue Economy: Ocean Observing Prize challenges competitors to integrate marine renewable energy into ocean observation platforms. The end goal? To devise tomorrow’s hurricane-monitoring devices and protect coastal communities from dangerous […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 03:51:17 +0000
How countries can meet their Paris Agreement obligation to reduce the climate impact of international shipping without conflicting with existing international law The dual legal obligations imposed by the Paris Agreement and the UN Law of the Sea mean that states have a duty to reduce emissions, via national and regional regulation, from international shipping […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 03:50:38 +0000
On a sun-filled winter day, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers visited Jennette’s Pier, which sits on the shore of Nags Head beach in North Carolina. Amid salty air and crashing waves, the crew deployed a wave-powered desalination test device and anchored it to the nearby seabed — a long-awaited feat for the research team. […]
Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 14:00:40 +0000
GoSun made a name for itself in the world of solar appliances with its line of solar ovens. These innovative, compact cookers utilize a pair of parabolic reflectors to cook a wide range of food and from the start, the company had sustainability in mind. Years after its initial product hit the market, GoSun has […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 17:10:29 +0000
The new Northvolt factory will use recycled wastewater for cooling.
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2022 04:27:28 +0000
When Americans turn on a faucet, they rely on public treatment systems to ensure the water is safe to drink. Public water systems pump more than 27 million filtered gallons each minute to U.S. homes and businesses. Chemicals called flocculants play an important role in removing sediments from the water. Until now, most flocculants have […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Energy Information Administration| Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 12:00:29 +0000
On February 3, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Northwest River Forecast Center (NWRFC) released its latest water supply forecast for the 2022 water year, which runs from October 2021 through September 2022. The NWRFC forecasts below-normal water supply in the southern areas of the Columbia River Basin and near-normal water supply in the rest of the […]