Real Climate

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

An enhanced understanding of climate change has been a force behind the growth in solar panels, wind power, and electric cars. One example is this video produced for the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NAS).

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Inhabitant

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Tobias Trübenbacher, a design student from Berlin, has created a wind-powered lamp post that uses an integrated wind rotor to generate energy and a motion detection system to create an insect-friendly light spectrum.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The country recently announced that its Egyptian New and Renewable Energy Authority and the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company have approved a major wind power project, developed by a company based in a country hostile to phasing out fossil fuels; Saudi Arabia. GW of wind power installed, the 1.1

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 27, 2022

While a wind-powered cargo vessel may seem like a 19 th Century idea, the Grain de Sail may be a herald of a greener future rather than a nostalgic nod to the past. Building more vessels that travel at this slower speed regardless of using wind power or conventional engines will also lead to quieter oceans and less air pollution.

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Yale E360

APRIL 20, 2023

Escalating construction costs, the rise of solar and wind power, and mounting public opposition have led to a precipitous decrease in massive new hydropower projects. Experts say the world has hit “peak dams,” which conservationists hail as good news for riverine ecosystems. Read more on E360 →

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Seamans, the man President Gerald Ford had entrusted to deal with the energy crisis of the 1970s, didn’t think wind power had much of a future. In 1975, at the dedication of an experimental turbine in Ohio, Seamans opined that wind would never account for more… Read more → Read the full story in the New York Times.

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Yale E360

MARCH 16, 2023

Faced with embargoes of Russian oil and gas, Europe ramped up production of solar and wind power, got serious about energy conservation, and tweaked policies to speed its green transition. Despite fears of increased emissions, the EU remained on track to meet its climate goals. Read more on E360 →

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Yale E360

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Numerous companies are developing technologies, such as large kites, that can harvest wind energy up to a half-mile above ground. While still in its nascent stages, airborne wind power could potentially be used in remote locations or flying from barges far offshore. Read more on E360 ?.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 26, 2023

Additionally, a patent-pending service vessel facilitates offshore turbine maintenance, eliminating the need for towing to shore.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 19, 2022

Having won rights to develop wind farms off the coast of Scotland, Shell, Total, and BP are set to invest more in wind power than in oil and gas drilling in the North Sea in the years ahead, the latest evidence of oil majors changing tack on renewables to better navigate the energy transition. Read more on E360 ?.

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Scientific American

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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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Yale E360

MAY 4, 2021

Eversource Energy, New England’s largest utility, markets itself as a company that strives for carbon neutrality and invests in offshore wind power.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Does it finance coal or wind power, deforestation or ecological recovery? Follow the money. Whatever politicians promise, what matters is where investment goes.

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Wind was Spain's leading source of electricity in 2021, El País reported. In total, renewables accounted for 47 percent of power generation this year, up from 30 percent a decade ago. Roughly half of 2021's renewable energy came from wind power, with 10 percent coming from solar and the remainder from hydropower and other sources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

To ensure the wind industry upholds environmental justice and stewards its raw materials, many companies are replacing balsa with other materials. For example, LM Wind Power has minimized balsa in its blades, substituting in synthetic plastic PET and PVC foams. Click the links below for answers: How Are Wind Turbines Made.

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Yale E360

MAY 18, 2021

In a new report , the International Energy Agency is calling for an immediate end to new investments in fossil fuel supply projects such as pipelines, the rapid adoption of renewable energy such as solar and wind power, and a large-scale research and development program to develop future technologies, including advanced batteries, producing energy (..)

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Inhabitant

DECEMBER 9, 2022

government has auctioned Pacific coast offshore wind power sites. For the first time, the U.S.

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Inhabitant

JUNE 18, 2021

This portable wind-turbine weighs less than three pounds and fits in your backpack.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

Treasury and the IRS are right to propose clear rules for solar- and wind-powered electricity generation. The power sector transition will overwhelmingly rely on the buildout of solar power and wind power. Today, I draw attention to just a subset of issues raised in our submitted technical comments: 1.

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A Greener Life

MAY 22, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The Economy Minister of France has targeted a huge offshore wind development capacity expansion. Bruno Le Maire outlined the French government’s strategy for deploying 45 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind power by 2050. This is an increase of 5 GW from the 40 GW target unveiled last year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

The progress in the numbers The new numbers are from the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA), which collects data from power plant operators from across the country. Solar power increased the most among renewable electricity sources in percentage terms, up 24 percent. It supplied 10.5 percentage points).*

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A series of wind power projects in Romania is set to increase the country’s wind power capacity significantly. The three confirmed projects will increase Romania’s wind power capacity by 609 megawatts (MW). Several other wind power projects are in the planning stage, but none have yet been confirmed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The results include two developers cancelling their offshore wind power contracts with states and utilities, another cancelling two projects altogether, and hesitation elsewhere. The good news-bad news balance, though, would seem to tip decidedly in favor of a whole lot more offshore wind.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 30, 2023

A wind farm in South Wales, UK. By Anders Lorenzen Data from its national grid operator, the National Grid , have concluded that 2022 was a record year for wind power in the UK. The data shows that the output of UK wind farms onshore and offshore continues to increase; in 2022 they produced a record 26.8%

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 16, 2023

This alignment ensures a steady supply of wind power to customers in Arizona and California during peak demand hours when renewable energy supply is traditionally low.

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Scientific American

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The overall picture of Earth’s health is grim, although there are bright spots: solar and wind power are on the rise, and deforestation has slowed

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Surplus wind power can be used to heat up water in flooded mines – a test of the idea is being planned in Scotland in 2024

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

I sometimes ask students to guess what state produces the most wind power. It’s not as if the state’s extensive use of wind power is just a historical fluke, either. The state will soon get more power from renewables than natural gas. They’re always shocked to find out the right answer: Texas.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 24, 2024

by Christopher Niezrecki, UMass Lowell America’s first large-scale offshore wind farms began sending power to the Northeast in early 2024, but a wave of wind farm project cancellations and rising costs have left many people with doubts about the industry’s future in the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2025

An electrolyzer powered by electricity with the average carbon intensity for the US grid (roughly equal to that from a gas plant) could produce hydrogen with a carbon intensity that is 70% more than that of SMR-produced hydrogenand more than 45 times what low-carbon options would produce. Is green hydrogen carbon-free?

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

During the 2010s, wind power went from 1% of generation to 20%. This is a holdover from the 1930s, when Nebraska was a highly progressive state. The elected board members who run these utilities did little or nothing about renewables until the past decade. That has changed quite quickly.

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Physics World

JULY 8, 2022

Energized sky: “Solar wind power”. My favourite entry is the image above taken in Finland by Esa Pekka Isomursu and called “Solar wind power”. It shows a wind turbine illuminated by an aurora, giving the illusion that the two entities are interacting. Courtesy: Esa Pekka Isomursu).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

The 18 projects approved by MISO in Tranche 1 address reliability needs in the Upper Midwest while helping ensure utilities can transition from older, more expensive-to-run coal plants to cleaner, affordable wind and solar power. Source: MISO. What’s in it for Michigan?

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021. Climate policy has been boosted by dramatic changes in the economics of clean energy. Perhaps the most important development of the past decade has been the dramatic decline in the cost of renewables. Rooftop solar costs in 2020 were a third of what they had been in 2010.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Carbon removal project developers Return Carbon and Verified Carbon are collaborating on a direct air capture facility that will run entirely on wind power, a feat the pair called a first for the sector on Thursday.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 20, 2024

As the electricity grid continues to evolve with more solar and wind power displacing coal and natural gas, an EV school bus purchased today will get even cleaner over its lifetime. Over its lifetime, a gasoline, diesel, propane or natural gas school bus will be responsible for more than 800 metric tons of global warming pollution.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 5, 2023

A cargo ship vessel has been outfitted with wind power technology, bringing wind propulsion to commercial shipping for the first time. The vessel, Mitsubishi Corporation’s Pyxis Ocean, is chartered by Cargill and outfitted with two Bar Tech Wind … Continue reading First cargo ship with wind-powered technology sets sail

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