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Solar panels on storage units: Illinois is going all in on this no-brainer
Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Krzysztof…
Solar panels in Ireland: Could now be the time to cut your rising electricity bills?
According to the Dutch TTF natural gas futures, natural gas was trading at €59 per megawatt hour (mWh) this week, while prior to the outbreak of the war between the US and Iran it was trading at €31. There was a reprieve towards the…
A new California factory opened this spring to make solar panels with a perovskite crystal layer far thinner than silicon, and the physics ceiling it clears had stood since the 1960s
Walk past any rooftop or field-scale solar project in America and you're looking at essentially the same technology the industry has shipped for decades: a slab of silicon that turns sunlight into electricity. The panels got cheaper, the…
A $1.5 billion factory in Michigan is slicing silicon into slivers less than a millimeter thin, and the five-step chain it just completed for the first time in nearly a decade that lives inside every solar panel on your roof
Every solar panel sitting on an American rooftop looks like a single finished product. It has a frame, a sheet of glass and a grid of dark cells that turn sunlight into electricity. What almost nobody sees is what had to happen before assembly: a…
Solar demand prompts calls for local manufacturing
Growing demand for solar power in Africa's largest economies is driving governments to strengthen local manufacturing of components for panels. But China's dominance of the supply chain means those ambitions could take years to materialize, energy…
The Biggest Garbage Heaps in Human History
So much for the lies about clean, renewable, sustainable energy. Where will all the trash go? Daily news feeds present applause lines, and numerous movies include framing shots with wind turbines – blatantly or subtly promoting the…
China's green revolution and what it means for the world
China has been the world's biggest polluter since 2006, but in recent years, it has emerged as a clean energy superpower. Huge swathes of China – from the mountain plateaus of Tibet, where the sun shines brighter in the thin air, to the…
Stokies 'driven crazy by cooing pigeons' demand council action
Families living on a Stoke-on-Trent street say their lives are being made a misery by pigeons. Residents in William Rushton Road, Smallthorne, are fed up with the noise, dust, and excrement from dozens of pigeons breeding and living underneath…
Extended storage yard in latest Stockton Council planning bids
72 Oxbridge Lane, Stockton, TS18 4HN: One-storey side extension; 94 Oxbridge Avenue, Stockton, TS18 4QB: One-storey wrap-around side and back extension; 20 Westmoreland Grove, Norton, TS20 1PA: Certificate of lawfulness for a dormer extension to…
China Completes 582-Tonne Magnet For 'Artificial Sun', Eyes Fusion Power By 2030
China aims to lead future energy markets, mirroring its solar and EV success. China has completed and tested a giant 582-tonne superconducting magnet for its next-generation nuclear fusion project, a development that could strengthen its ambition…
So much solar: Digging into the list of every us power plant that went online this year
Utility-scale solar leads by a mile, followed by batteries. Fossil fuels, not so much. It's been a wild first half of the year in the U.S. power sector, with announcements of gigantic natural gas power plants and some long-awaited renewable energy…
SEG Solar opens 4 GW Tomball factory; previously announced third facility would push total to 10.6 GW
SEG Solar opened a new 4-gigawatt solar module assembly plant in Tomball, Texas on August 7, marking one of the largest single-facility additions to American solar module manufacturing capacity in recent years. At the grand-opening ceremony, the…
How a Sudanese refugee became a head teacher in a Chadian camp
Adre, Chad – Sahra remembers growing up in el-Geneina, the capital of Sudan's West Darfur state, determined to outperform the boys in her class. After sitting her national examinations in 2005 and 2006, she decided she wanted to become a…
Minnesota's Low-Grade Iron Ore Could Become a Surprisingly Good Semiconductor
Iron ore mined in Minnesota could have an unexpected future beyond steelmaking. Scientists have discovered that relatively low-purity ore from the state's Iron Range can be turned directly into semiconductor-quality pyrite, potentially providing a…
Corrupt DoT head took oil money for reality TV show during oil price spike (update)
Sean Duffy, whose transportation expertise comes from being a contestant on the reality TV show Road Rules, is going back to his roots and filming a reality TV show while on the job. But, as is fitting for the corrupt cabal he's a member of, he's…
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