Enviromental Defense

JULY 2, 2025

To prevent equipment failure, they employ extensive cooling systems that often rely on water – and the volumes they use are staggering. 2 Energy The electricity required to power and cool date centres represents another significant environmental concern. 1 Water Data centres generate enormous heat.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

More than 80% of us favor building more solar power stations in California. Like in New Mexico , where this Indigenous-led nonprofit group is bringing solar power to Navajo Nation and the Hopi tribe. These are some key findings of the Californians and the Environment survey by the Public Policy Institute of California.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Wants To Do It In Pennsylvania -- DEP: Diversified Production LLC Abandons Shale Gas Powered Cryptocurrency Facility In Elk County; 9 More Violations For Abandoned Shale Gas Wells This Week [PaEN] -- Stronghold Digital Mining, DEP, Environmental Groups Settle Appeal, Require Removal Of Unpermitted Scrubgrass Power Plant's Coal Ash Pile 14 Months Faster (..)

Politics

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Davis, DEP, Community Celebrate The Opening Of Federal/State Funded Blacklick Creek Mine Drainage Treatment Plant To Clean Up 25 Miles Of Waterways In Cambria, Indiana Counties [PaEN] -- Indiana Gazette: Blacklick Abandoned Mine Drainage Treatment Facility Celebrated Near Vintondale -- DEP Now Accepting Applications For First Round Of Federally-Funded (..)

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Shapiros Energy Policies Will Cost Pennsylvania - By Andre Beliveau, Commonwealth Foundation -- Frozen Hoping For A Thaw: Eastern PA Coalition For Abandoned Mine Reclamation Project To Repurpose Fmr Coal Waste Plant Site Into Solar Energy, Mine Water Pool Energy Storage, Cooling Facility In Schuylkill County [PaEN] -- The Allegheny Front/WPSU: Solar (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Million In Solar For All Funding From Self-Imposed Freeze [PaEN] -- The Allegheny Front/WPSU: Solar Power Supporters In PA Say Outlook Is Positive, Even As Policies Could Change Under President -- City Of Reading Begins Energy Efficiency, Solar Energy Project To Save $13.3

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Luzerne County [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension: Using Live Stake Nurseries To Engage Communities In Stream Health [PaEN] -- Volunteers Needed!

Conservation

Physics World

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

There are several different types of AWH, and Lord and colleagues focussed on the solar-driven, continuous-mode AWH (SC-AWH). In such a device, heat from sunlight drives warm, humid air through a heat exchanger where it cools and releases water via condensation. The research is described in Nature.

Solar Power

Inhabitant

JUNE 25, 2021

So it makes sense that the same umbrella could be adorned with solar panels and allowed to collect the sun’s energy in order to provide a cooling result. Sun umbrellas are an ubiquitous scene on coastal beaches, offering shade from the blistering sun.

Cooling

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Wind turbines and solar power, two sturdy and growing sources of renewable energy, require negligible amounts of water. Nuclear plants hoover up enormous volumes of water for cooling, killing aquatic life and warming rivers in the process. Rivers provide a cooling effect on nearby lands, functioning as a natural air conditioner.

Carbon Emissions

Inhabitant

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Space-based solar power is the cool technology of the future, although the concept was conceived hundreds of years ago. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a Russian scientist, proposed the idea of harnessing space-based solar power in 1923.

Solar Power

New Scientist

JULY 30, 2025

The Wet Tropics in north-east Australia are a true wilderness, covered in cool rainforest and home to other unusual animals like tree kangaroos.

Rainforest

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 31, 2022

Solar energy production starts to dwindle by September. Solar power peaks earlier in the summer when the days are longer. By September, the sun sets earlier in the evening, and solar power production tapers off when people are still using substantial amounts of electricity in the evening. and 6:28 to 6:48 p.m.

Solar Power

Physics World

APRIL 19, 2021

Pufferfish have inspired a new device that is capable of the highest rate ever of passive solar water purification – according to its creators Xiaohui Xu and colleagues at Princeton University in the US. The post Solar-powered water purifier is inspired by pufferfish appeared first on Physics World.

Solar Power

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

My last post argued that EPA should immediately repeal the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan. It attempted to move away from fossil fuels and toward zero-carbon sources like solar power to supply electricity. Here are the options going forward for regulating existing power plants.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

There are two types of solar technology for electricity generation. Another technology, concentrating solar power (CSP) , uses the sun’s heat instead. That technology accounts for 84% of US solar panels , according to the US Department of Energy. The most common type of PV panel is made using crystalline-silicon (c-SI).

Carbon Monoxide

Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Other research and development opportunities identified include innovation in energy storage, alternative biofuels, electric vehicle batteries, and advanced wind and solar power. We will be tracking future funding announcements under this initiative.

Technology

Earth 911

APRIL 24, 2024

We’re two high school students who launched Ecoolair, a solar-powered. Ewaste remains a massive problem. The post Ecoolair: Two High Schoolers Trying To Make A Difference appeared first on Earth911.

Solar Power

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

for Ontario to phase out polluting gas-powered electricity and produce all of its power using carbon-free sources. Take Action: Tell Ontario to phase out polluting gas power. Here are the measures that would lead Ontario to a fully clean electricity grid: Increase Wind and Solar Power. This is completely doable.

Solar Power

Physics World

JUNE 28, 2021

The device uses waste heat from the solar cell for desalination, thereby cooling the solar cell. Climate change is also driving demand for renewable energy, like solar power. A theoretical model suggests that the hydrophobic membranes are key to achieving simultaneous PV cooling and a high rate of water production.

Electricity

HumanNature

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In 2022, the installed capacity of wind and solar power grew almost 10% in the United States [1]. On the other end of the electric grid, advanced technologies can help reduce the amount of energy that is required for basic services like lighting, heating, and cooling. However, there is a big piece of this puzzle that is missing.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

JANUARY 6, 2023

Solar PV doesn’t perform as well when it overheats, which means that production can be sub-optimal on hot summer days. Panels over water are naturally cooled from beneath, and so their location adds to their efficiency. A study into the idea has suggested that the solar power could be used to run the irrigation pumps as well.

Solar Power

PA Environment Daily

MAY 30, 2024

Eligible projects include upgrades for heating, cooling, water heating, EV charging, smart home energy management systems, insulation, and certain energy-related improvements to home envelope. Single-family homes and owner-occupied multi-unit residential buildings up to four units are eligible to participate in the KEEP Home Energy Loan.

Solar Power

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 22, 2023

Shapiro Plans To Use Fake Pitt Studies To Push BIG Drilling Setbacks -- Broad & Liberty Guest Essay: Federal Permitting Reform Critical In Making Pennsylvania Leading Player In Exporting Liquid Natural Gas - By Jon Anzur, PA Chamber of Business & Industry -- Republican Herald Editorial: Health Depends On Regulation [Pitt Natural Gas Development (..)

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

JUNE 3, 2021

All these techniques are brought together in this demonstration project, the Diamniado Ecopavillion , which also features rainwater harvesting and solar power. But that increases emissions, and it would be a whole lot better to build homes that need less cooling in the first place. Typha turns out to be an interesting material.

Solar Power

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2023

CASD is also incorporating artificial intelligence to solve global/local problems, purchasing solar-powered transportation for campus use, and incorporating outdoor, year-round play with water- saving design. The campus also features ground and roof solar arrays, and WCU purchases renewable energy credits.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

By Lily Jones, PEC Communications Director What does a local Audubon chapter have in common with a solar-powered business incubator? A local artist helped design educational displays for the Stourbridge building, and a local heating and cooling installation business helped install the panels.

Solar Power

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2024

Support clean energy Solar Power Plant in modern city: Sustainable Renewable Energy. For example, it may lead you to improve your building’s insulation, or switch your home heating system to an electric heat-pump, which also provides cooling in the summer. Look for ways to embrace clean, renewable energy.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2024

Santarsiero -- US DOE Awards Mineral Basin Solar Project In Clearfield County $90 Million For 402 MW Facility On Abandoned Mine Lands; Filling Gap Left By Closure Of Homer City Coal-Fired Power Plant [PaEN] -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Feds Send $90 Million For Largest PA Solar Energy Project Yet -- Electrek: Pennsylvania’s Largest Solar (..)

Solar Power

A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

It could then explore local heating systems, using waste heat from factories and power plants rather than building new boilers. Wind and solar power can provide green electricity for those facilities, while the low local temperatures can help with cooling requirements.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2024

Shapiro’s Energy, Climate Initiatives [PaEN] -- US DOE Awards Mineral Basin Solar Project In Clearfield County $90 Million For 402 MW Facility On Abandoned Mine Lands; Filling Gap Left By Closure Of Homer City Coal-Fired Power Plant [PaEN] -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Feds Send $90 Million For Largest PA Solar Energy Project Yet -- Electrek: (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

It complements Phoenix Contact’s Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power (CCHP) system, which generates about half of the facility’s electric requirements. Phoenix Contact estimates the solar power installation will reduce the company’s electricity costs by approximately $150,000 per year.

2023

A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

A woman pours water over her head to cool off during soaring temperatures in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 11 April 2023. Temperature records have been broken across Asia in recent weeks. Photo credit: Habibur Rahman /Alamy Live News. By Aditi Mukherji The heatwave sweeping across Asia has forced schools in India to shut down.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Natural gas cryogenic plants take natural gas and cool it to sub-zero temperatures-- minus 120 degrees Fahrenheit-- in order to condense and separate out liquids like butane, ethane and propane from the gas. Posted: June 20, 2023] PA Environment Digest

Natural Gas

Environment Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

A mining company called VenusEnergy is looking to mine cryptocurrencies using energy from renewable sources including windmills and solar panels. Typically, miners want to operate from cool climates because this helps minimise the temperature of the mining farm which, in turn, keeps running costs down.

Fossil Fuels

Columbia Climate Law

JULY 9, 2015

In the classic “ Duck Curve ” scenario, overall grid electricity demand will be low on a relatively cool day due to reduced use of air-conditioning, and solar energy will make up a greater portion of total energy use. In the evening, energy demand suddenly increases when solar power does not function.

Electricity

Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

This is far from the widely touted goal of 100 percent electricity from renewables, and much further from the goal of 100 percent of energy , which includes fuels used for transportation, heating and cooling, and would amount to two to three times more electricity than required today. [17] 49 (2015): 15060-15065; DOI:10.1073/pnas.1510028112

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