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fastcompany.com - Adele Peters - Want free solar panels? This startup can help
Want free solar panels? This startup can help
Fast Company

Building a large solar farm typically takes years, thanks to permitting and grid connection delays. But a startup called Resilience Energy is rolling out a faster way to add clean energy: It pays to install solar and batteries across a network of…

independent.co.uk - Jeff Meyer - How to get more from your solar panels on sunny days
How to get more from your solar panels on sunny days
The Independent

When the sun is shining, your solar panels could be generating much more electricity than your home needs at that moment. The question is what happens to the excess. If you have a battery, it can be stored for later. If you have an export tariff…

earth.com - Luis Arrais - Underwater solar panels could make remote parts of the ocean easier to monitor
Underwater solar panels could make remote parts of the ocean easier to monitor
Earth.com

Seawater takes the red out of sunlight in the first few feet, then the orange. By 33 feet (10 meters) down, only a dim blue-green light is left, and a rooftop solar panel is designed to capture wavelengths that seawater has already filtered out. A…

arstechnica.com - Financial Times - 'Offensively cheap': Solar power is looking up
'Offensively cheap': Solar power is looking up
Ars Technica

In the badlands of Chakwal, in north-central Pakistan, Bestway Cement is transforming plots of dry earth and olive and peach groves into a forest of solar panels. Its efforts will add 6.34 megawatts of generation capacity by the end of the year…

smh.com.au - Caitlin Fitzsimmons - 'Moving at light speed': Plug-in solar and batteries are coming to Australia
'Moving at light speed': Plug-in solar and batteries are coming to Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald

Apartment residents could soon be able to buy plug-in batteries to store cheap or free power produced during the day to use in the evening even without solar panels. The plug-in home batteries for energy storage are part of reforms that would also…

autoguide.com - Albert Garcia - Volkswagen Unveils Mission Efficiency With 400-Plus Mile Range
Volkswagen Unveils Mission Efficiency With 400-Plus Mile Range
Autoguide

Volkswagen is revisiting extreme aerodynamic design with the debut of the Mission Efficiency, a teardrop-shaped 2+2 concept coupe that reimagines the spirit of the 2013 XL1 hyper-mile car for the modern electric era. Built on the MEB+ platform that…

theverge.com - Andrew J. Hawkins - Volkswagen's slippery new EV breaks a bunch of efficiency records
Volkswagen's slippery new EV breaks a bunch of efficiency records
The Verge

Mission Efficiency has a drag coefficient of just 0.158, making it the most aerodynamic road-approved vehicle in the world. Mission Efficiency has a drag coefficient of just 0.158, making it the most aerodynamic road-approved vehicle in the world.

cbsnews.com - Angelica  Leicht - What a Fed rate hike could mean for gold and silver prices
What a Fed rate hike could mean for gold and silver prices
CBS News

Gold and silver investors have had to contend with some sharp price moves so far in 2026. Gold, for example, surpassed $5,500 per ounce early this year, but has since retreated significantly from that record high, with the price of gold sitting…

euronews.com - Jonathan Benton - There won't be any cities on the Moon any time soon, scientists say
There won't be any cities on the Moon any time soon, scientists say
Euronews.com

Science fiction has long given us depictions of humans living on the Moon. In recent years, as technological advances have continued at pace, space entrepreneurs have started making plans for how they could actually do it. However, a new study…

space.com - Martin Elvis - No cities on the moon - there isn't enough water, scientists say (op-ed)
No cities on the moon - there isn't enough water, scientists say (op-ed)
Space

The discovery of water at the poles of the moon has inspired speculation about whether we can build there – cities, industrial neighborhoods, places where people work and live. But is there enough water, and can we use it efficiently enough?

theguardian.com - Julie Bourdin - A spoonful of sugar: how South Africa's weigh-and-pay shops are tackling 'poverty tax' head on
A spoonful of sugar: how South Africa's weigh-and-pay shops are tackling 'poverty tax' head on
The Guardian

Every morning, on her way to the laundry shop she runs in Johannesburg's Alexandra township, Tsholofelo Mphela stops at a bright yellow shipping container to buy a few spoonfuls of sugar. Inside, shelves are lined with large jars of beans, rice and…

prospect.org - Hannah Story Brown - The EPA's Dark Embrace of the AI Industry
The EPA's Dark Embrace of the AI Industry
The American Prospect

The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. Since his nomination, Lee Zeldin, the head of Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency, has…

electrek.co - Reinette LeJeune - Anker solar HomeKit-ready Wall Light Cam S4 launch deal, Anker SOLIX extends power station sale, Monarc e-bike bundles, more
Anker solar HomeKit-ready Wall Light Cam S4 launch deal, Anker SOLIX extends power station sale, Monarc e-bike bundles, more
Electrek

Leading our Monday Green Deals this week is the launch deals on Anker's new HomeKit-ready and solar-charging Wall Light Cam S4, with the 2-pack bundle down at $400, for example. Right behind that, we have Anker's extended SOLIX Hurricane-Ready…

nypost.com - Andrea Palladino - Volkswagen debuts 'world's most efficient' EV - here's when drivers can get behind the wheel
Volkswagen debuts 'world's most efficient' EV - here's when drivers can get behind the wheel
New York Post

Volkswagen has its foot on the gas and is fully charged ahead in the efficiency race. Volkswagen has unveiled Mission Efficiency, a new electric vehicle (EV) prototype that has already set three world records. The concept model breaks records for…

hoodline.com - Jo Marquez - Lincoln Inn DeKalb Seeks $25K City Grant for Solar Roof
Lincoln Inn DeKalb Seeks $25K City Grant for Solar Roof
Hoodline

The owner of The Lincoln Inn at Faranda's in downtown DeKalb is asking the city for $25,000 to help cover a sweeping approximately $375,000 roof and solar panel overhaul at the restaurant's Grove Street building. Bill McMahon applied for the…

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