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Google to begin selling maps data to companies building solar products, hopes to generate $100 million in first year

Environmental News Bits

Google is planning to license new sets of mapping data to a range of companies to use as they build products around renewable energy, and is hoping to generate up to $100 million in its first year, CNBC has learned.

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How Much Land Would it Require to Get Most of Our Electricity from Wind and Solar?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Critics of wind and solar routinely raise concerns about how much land would be required to decarbonize the US power sector. And when wind and solar projects are responsibly sited, the environmental and public health impacts would be far less harmful than those from extracting, producing, and burning fossil fuels.

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PennEnvironment Releases Online Map Highlighting Renewable Energy Projects In Every County Across PA

PA Environment Daily

On April 11, PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center unveiled a new interactive map highlighting one renewable energy or energy efficiency project in each county of the Keystone State, showing the vibrancy and growth of the clean energy sector across Pennsylvania. Click Here to visit the map.

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Illinois Has No Time to Waste in Building Its Carbon-Free Electricity Future

Union of Concerned Scientists

CEJA also sets out procurement requirements for clean energy by the Illinois Power Agency and funding for communities to build solar installations and make repairs and efficiency improvements in homes and buildings. For example, below are two screen shots of maps provided by PowerGEM. Warmer colors represent more significant overloads.

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Speaking of Water: “How Do We Consider Mass Resettlement Of The World Population?” With Parag Khanna

Circle of Blue

And he’s also author of Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization. JCG: First, I think I’m really interested in your fascination with maps and with both human and physical geography. PK: And we don’t make maps that properly represent the intersection and overlapping of these layers.

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Africa in 2050

Legal Planet

We will need to reorient our mental maps of the world: in thirty years, one in four human beings will live in sub-Saharan Africa. Much more can be done, given that, “with an abundance of solar, wind, and geothermal resources, African countries already have a comparative advantage in renewables.”.

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Dear Oil and Gas CEOs: Here’s How You Should Spend Those Record Profits

Union of Concerned Scientists

Meanwhile, annual reports show corporations are pushing ahead with plans to expand production, betting on new technologies to somehow make it all okay in the future. Further, these efforts are focused on carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, and biofuels—technologies that aim to stash carbon emissions away, not reduce their production.