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Biden Administration Moves to Unblock Solar Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

And now a just-announced plan from the Biden administration looks set to unstick the logjam, and save those projects and jobs while encouraging more domestic production of solar components. It proposes to do that through three pieces: 1. Many lawmakers were equally enthusiastic.

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Could space-based solar power be future of clean energy?

Inhabitant

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.

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Harvesting water from air with solar power

Environmental News Bits

Researchers have developed a promising new solar-powered atmospheric water harvesting technology that could help provide enough drinking water for people to survive in difficult, dryland areas: They synthesized a super hygroscopic gel capable of absorbing and retaining an unparalleled amount of water.

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Driving on sunshine: Clean, usable liquid fuels made from solar power

Environmental News Bits

Researchers have developed a solar-powered technology that converts carbon dioxide and water into liquid fuels that can be added directly to a car’s engine as drop-in fuel. Read the full story from the University of Cambridge.

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Space solar power project ends first in-space mission with successes and lessons

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story from the California Institute of Technology. A 10-month mission demonstrated three elements of the plan to beam solar power from space to Earth.

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Depleted Groundwater Could Be Refilled by Borrowing a Trick from Solar Power

Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Do We Really Need New Technology to Fight Climate Change?

Union of Concerned Scientists

I was invited to speak at a panel discussion last Wednesday as part of The Economist ’s annual Sustainability Week, titled “What technologies are needed to avert a climate disaster?” True to the theme, I was asked about which technological innovations would be necessary to save our planet. And yet, we aren’t. Clean energy on hold.