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Video: Pumped storage could help put more wind and solar on the grid
This article discusses how pumped storage could help put more wind and solar on the grid. The sun doesn’t always shine, and the wind doesn’t always blow. These energy-storage technologies could help get around those limitations.
Managing climate change in part involves rapidly scaling-up wind and solar energy.
But as independent videographer […]
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Mass Audubon Opinion: Birds And People Could Reap Benefits Of Offshore Wind
This article discusses wind farms and birds, and how they can, and do, live together.
President Donald trump recently criticized “windmills” as a source of energy, claiming, “They kill so many birds. You look underneath some of those windmills, it’s like a killing field.” All this while he attempts to […]
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Can these 35-ton bricks solve renewable energy’s biggest problem?
This article discusses whether these 35-ton bricks solve renewable energy’s biggest problem? These giant towers use a very low-tech solution to store energy created when the sun shines or the wind blows so it can be used later.
It’s already cheaper to build a new solar or wind farm than a coal […]
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Study: Wind Farms Can Act Like Apex Predators in Ecosystems
This article discusses a new study that finds that Wind Farms Can Act Like Apex Predators in Ecosystems.
The impact of wind farms on flying species has been well documented, with turbines reducing the number of birds and bats in an area and disrupting migration routes. But a new study finds that […]
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Something New May Be Rising Off California Coast: Wind Farms
This article discusses the California Coast and Wind Farms.
California’s aggressive pursuit of an electric grid fully powered by renewable energy sources is heading in a new direction: offshore.
On Friday, the federal Interior Department took the first steps to enable companies to lease waters in Central and […]
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The Northam administration wants a ‘prominent role’ for Virginia in offshore wind
This article discusses how the Northam administration wants a ‘prominent role’ for Virginia in offshore wind. Can they pull it off?
Virginia is looking to assume a “prominent role” in the developing U.S. East Coast offshore wind industry, in large part by collaborating with neighboring states.
That was the message Virginia […]
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Report: Virginia could be a national leader in the growing U.S. offshore wind industry
This Sierra Club new report released by BVG Associates shows that Virginia’s key decision-makers can help position Virginia as a national leader in the growing U.S. offshore wind industry during the next decade.
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Study: Research shows that wind farms could help divert hurricane rains
This article discusses research that shows that wind farms could help divert hurricane rains. With enough wind turbines, the rainfall from Hurricane Harvey could have been reduced by 20 percent, according to a new modeling study.
The idea of deliberately modifying the weather with wind turbines has been around for decades, […]
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Reports: U.S. Wind Power Is ‘Going All Out’ with Bigger Tech, Falling Prices
This article discusses three new government reports that detail how the wind industry is expanding — offshore and onshore — and the role corporations, technology and tax credits are playing.
Wind power capacity has tripled across the United States in just the last decade as prices have plunged and […]
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Study: How Melting Arctic Ice Could Cook the Tropics
This article discusses how the loss of sea ice from the Arctic Ocean will alter wind patterns and ocean currents, causing changes across the planet.
Every good horror movie needs a sequel, and the follow-up to the real-life 2015 disaster the Blob is coming soon. But this time, the deadly warming in […]
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