Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 22:04:39 +0000
Boston startup re-invents millennia-old firebricks for 21st century renewable energy storage and industrial decarbonization.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:21:56 +0000
The world has gone cuckoo for artificial intelligence. AI is virtually all you hear in the news these days. NVIDIA is worth a gazillion dollars because it manufactures the specialized computer chips that data centers need to make AI possible. Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Google are all rushing headlong … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 03:52:43 +0000
Deciding where to build a solar or wind farm? MIT engineers show how detailed mapping of weather conditions and energy demand can guide optimization for siting renewable energy installations. Prior to now, there were few integrated sources for combining data from individual developers or utilities, which made it more guesswork … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:37:36 +0000
The American Clean Power Association (ACP) has released a report on clean energy growth in the US in 2024. The report highlights a surge in deployment in the 3rd quarter — 10.2 gigawatts (GW) of new clean energy capacity. “This record-setting quarter positions the industry to achieve a historic year … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:44:54 +0000
India continues to be a solar and wind powerhouse, no pun intended. In fact, its solar power installations have absolutely soared this year. Compared to the first three quarters of 2023, newly installed solar power capacity in the first three quarters of 2024 was up 106%. New wind power capacity … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:34:08 +0000
In winter on the Utah Wasatch Front, on average we have 5 days, particularly in Salt Lake County, when the air is unsafe to breathe. There are another 18 days, on average, when the air is only “bad” to breathe. You will find naysayers like our President Elect who will … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 01:57:33 +0000
SunTrain is planning a new mobile energy storage system that collects renewable energy where available and ships it where needed, using existing railways instead of transmission lines.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 04:59:50 +0000
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is out with another round of cleantech announcements today. Clean Energy Cybersecurity First of all, the Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator (CECA) program, working with the US DOE’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) as well as some utilities, is moving forward … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 03:02:15 +0000
When I was in Brussels recently speaking at the launch of the second edition of Supergrid Super Solution, Eddie O’Connor and Kevin O’Sullivan’s handbook for Europe’s renewable power grid of the future, I had the opportunity to sit down with John Fitzgerald, CEO of Supernode, a startup developing superconducting transmission. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:37:08 +0000
The US Department of Energy continues to roll out great cleantech news as we approach the end of the year and the end of an epic presidential term for clean energy, energy efficiency, and electric vehicles. I’m going to roll through four stories from the past two days to catch … [continued]
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