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businessinsider.com - Lloyd Lee - Elon Musk's solar ambitions have shifted from powering homes to powering Tesla's AI era
Elon Musk's solar ambitions have shifted from powering homes to powering Tesla's AI era
Business Insider

About a decade ago, Tesla entered its solar-for-homes era with its contentious acquisition of SolarCity. Now, Tesla's solar dreams are taking a different shape as the company enters its AI era. Tesla has inked two long-term agreements to purchase…

abc.net.au - Nathan Morris - Solar is cheap, but building enough of it can be difficult
Solar is cheap, but building enough of it can be difficult
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Posted Thu 30 Jul 2026 at 4:53am Australia is a world leader in rooftop solar, but is not building enough utility-scale solar to power industry, according to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). Construction and labour costs remain a key…

redstate.com - The Heartland Institute - Coal Still Dominates Wind and Solar, and Will for the Foreseeable Future
Coal Still Dominates Wind and Solar, and Will for the Foreseeable Future
redstate.com

Rumors of coal's demise have been greatly exaggerated. For the past decade, liberal policy wonks and the mainstream media have celebrated the forced closure of numerous coal plants. The media's claims to the contrary, most of the closed coal plants…

theguardian.com - Natricia Duncan - Caribbean bears brunt of £43bn climate-fuelled damage to developing islands
Caribbean bears brunt of £43bn climate-fuelled damage to developing islands
The Guardian

Caribbean nations suffered $53.2bn (£40bn) of damage from climate-fuelled disasters between 2000 and 2024, research into the cost of the climate crisis to developing small islands has found. The figure is more than 90% of the total $57bn in…

theguardian.com - Graham Readfearn - Australians value batteries and EVs, but renewables industry must earn trust of regions, summit told
Australians value batteries and EVs, but renewables industry must earn trust of regions, summit told
The Guardian

Organised campaigns against wind and solar energy have proved “extremely effective” in undermining community support for renewable energy but enthusiasm for electric vehicles has jumped following Donald Trump's attack on Iran…

newswire.ca - LONGi BC Technology Powers Two World-Leading Solar Racing Teams at the 2026 Elektrek American Solar Challenge
LONGi BC Technology Powers Two World-Leading Solar Racing Teams at the 2026 Elektrek American Solar Challenge
CNW

XI'AN, China, July 29, 2026 /CNW/ -- LONGi is strengthening its commitment to innovation in solar mobility by supporting two of the world's leading solar racing teams at the 2026 Elektrek American Solar Challenge (ASC), one of North America's…

forbes.com - Chuck Brooks - Space's Exponential Tech Moment And The Need To Secure It
Space's Exponential Tech Moment And The Need To Secure It
Forbes

Futuristic background with flying object and stars. Vector EPS10 We are living at a turning point in human history. The high frontier of space is no longer a far-off place only accessible by a select few elite projects and governments. It now…

grist.org - Austin Corona - China's solar industry is losing money. The country is doubling down anyway.
China's solar industry is losing money. The country is doubling down anyway.
Grist

Cheap, abundant Chinese solar panels have become essential to decarbonizing the global energy system. Without them, the world's clean energy transition would have arguably been slower and more expensive. But China's solar manufacturing industry now…

kbs.co.kr - Lee Promotes S. Korea-Brazil Cooperation on Civil Aircraft, Supply Chains, K-Beauty
Lee Promotes S. Korea-Brazil Cooperation on Civil Aircraft, Supply Chains, K-Beauty
KBS

President Lee Jae Myung, who is in Brazil on a state visit, has identified next-generation civil aircraft, critical mineral supply chains and K-beauty as promising areas for cooperation between the two countries. At a roundtable attended by…

knowridge.com - The Conversation - How Next-Generation Photovoltaics Could Contribute to Electricity Storage
How Next-Generation Photovoltaics Could Contribute to Electricity Storage
Knowridge Science Report | Inspiring science news

Due to the falling price and manageable size of silicon solar cells, the sight of solar panels on household rooftops has become familiar. However, solar energy, like many other sustainable forms of energy, is intermittent. At peak times, such as on…

bloomberg.com - The Editorial Board - Orbital Data Centers Are a Crazy Idea. Go For It.
Orbital Data Centers Are a Crazy Idea. Go For It.
Bloomberg

Why not just build them in space? As data centers face rising costs, strained resources and growing political opposition, a number of entrepreneurs — Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Eric Schmidt — have raised the possibility of processing and…

techcrunch.com - Zack Whittaker - US government bans new foreign-made humanoids, robot dogs, and solar inverters, citing risks to national security
US government bans new foreign-made humanoids, robot dogs, and solar inverters, citing risks to national security
TechCrunch

The Trump administration is banning the import of new foreign-made humanoid robots, robot dogs, and power inverters, citing an “unacceptable” threat to national security. The move largely affects imports from China, which currently…

chron.com - Timothy Malcolm - Family friendly Houston brewery closes after 10-year run
Family friendly Houston brewery closes after 10-year run
Chron

This has been yet another trying year for Houston area brewers, and especially for those north of the Interstate 610 Loop. Joining the likes of Southern Star Brewing and Fire Ant in the brewery graveyard is 10-year-old City Acre Brewing. City Acre…

thehindu.com - The Hindu Bureau - Solar plant set up to help SCCL subsidiary APHMEL save on its energy bill
Solar plant set up to help SCCL subsidiary APHMEL save on its energy bill
The Hindu

Chairman and Managing Director of Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) Buddhaprakash Jyoti virtually inaugurated the 300 Kilowatt (Kw) solar power plant established at the Andhra Pradesh Heavy Machinery & Engineering Limited (APHMEL), a…

foreignaffairs.com - America's Surprising Energy Advantage
America's Surprising Energy Advantage
Foreign Affairs Magazine

The clean energy transition has entered a new phase. Ambitious net-zero emission pledges made over the past decade have fallen glaringly short of their goals. But the rise of artificial intelligence—and the proliferation of data centers to…

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