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Solar panels blamed for spate of fires on school roofs across England
Solar panels have sparked a spate of fires on school roofs, raising fears over Ed Miliband's plan to install hundreds more. Concerned town hall officials have switched off 80 of the systems on classrooms across Suffolk after three separate blazes…
Reshoring Solar Manufacturing For Energy (National) Security
Texas leads the nation in solar electricity generation The Trump administration has made it a national imperative to reshore manufacturing and technology development. Nowhere is that more evident than Texas where new investments in manufacturing…
Kim Smith: New electricity rates threaten Bermuda's clean energy future
Solar panel owners, especially owners of smaller arrays, are being unfairly penalised by new Belco rates, says the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce (Photograph supplied) The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce is deeply…
Our largest solar and battery storage project ever
Today, alongside local leaders, community members, and our partners at Cypress Creek Energy, we broke ground on what will be the largest solar facility in the United States — Steel River Energy Center in Mississippi County Arkansas. While…
The Download: Claude's inner workings, and the future of world models
Aside from having a PhD in computer science, Will has spent a lot of time digging into what we can say about how AI models work. I spoke with him about what we should take from Anthropic's new (and typically quirky) research. Here's what he had to…
How China Is Winning Friends and Influencing People
On the traffic-snarled streets of Hanoi, taxi drivers taking a break between rides watch Chinese microdramas—feature-length stories divided into addictive 90-second clips—on their phones. Some commuters zip past on Chinese-made Yadea…
How China's poverty alleviation efforts are transforming Africa
Local farmers harvest Juncao, the specially cultivated grass used for growing mushrooms, in Zanzibar, Tanzania, last September. Image: EMMANUEL HERMAN / XINHUA China's decades-long efforts in lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty…
DCC founder calls for 'CRH-like ambition' as he steps up anti-sale campaign
DCC founder Jim Flavin has urged the board to aspire to build a CRH of the global energy solutions industry as he stepped up his campaign against a sale of the group, as two US private equity firms circling the business face a bid deadline on…
Batteries charge ahead as data centres fuel gas turbine costs: CSIRO
Australia's top science agency has found batteries are now cheaper at supplying peak demand for power than gas. The CSIRO's annual GenCost report notes insatiable demand for gas-fired power from US data centres is driving up turbine costs. At the…
The US Economy Cannot Grow Without Renewables
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA—After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, US President George W. Bush called on Americans to go shopping. While some people claimed at the time that Bush was encouraging irresponsible spending (a criticism that gained…
Knowledge Nugget | SpaceX's latest launch raises a question: What powers satellites?
6 min read New Delhi Make us preferred source on Google Take a look at the essential concepts, terms, quotes, or phenomena every day and brush up your knowledge. Here's your knowledge nugget for today. SpaceX has successfully launched what is being…
Prediction: These 32 Things Will Make Your Outdoor Space Your Favorite Part Of Your Home
Promising review: ' I have used these lights in the yards of each of the houses I have lived in, and they work great. In my previous home, I just put them up with industrial-strength outdoor Velcro on the vinyl fence, and they stayed put for two…
Natural Light is giving one fan a giant solar-powered beer cooler and $15,000 in beer money
Natural Light has unveiled a new backyard creation that uses solar power to keep beer cold during the hottest days of summer. Dubbed the CoolShed, the walk-in cooler is designed to function as a fully built backyard shed that uses rooftop solar…
Jaipur, Ahmedabad inspire Bengaluru's ₹5-crore heat-resilience pilot project
As summers grow hotter in Bengaluru, the city is turning to lessons from some of India's hottest urban centres. Drawing from heat-resilience measures adopted in cities such as Jaipur and Ahmedabad, the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) will build…
Amid new US tariff plan, Centre bars import of goods using forced labour
“The Central Government may, from time to time, specify, by notification, the goods whose import shall be prohibited under this paragraph, having regard to the findings of such enquiry or such other material as it may consider appropriate.
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