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Obama-era 'clean energy' solar power plant still uses fossil fuels - and kills thousands of birds annually
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! This is part 2 of a series on California's troubled Ivanpah Solar Power Plant in the Mojave Desert. SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – More than a decade after it opened, an Obama-era taxpayer-backed…
EDF closes financing for Israel's biggest solar energy field
EDF has closed the financing for construction of Israel's biggest solar energy field. The field will cover 3,000 dunams (750 acres) and produce electricity with a capacity of 265 megawatts at the lowest price ever in Israel: NIS 0.06.5 per kWh. The…
From Coal to Solar: China's sunken mines power a Green Revolution: Lessons for Sri Lanka
In a striking symbol of the global energy transition, vast stretches of once-abandoned coal mines in China have been reborn, not as relics of an industrial past, but as shimmering hubs of renewable energy. What were once scarred landscapes…
Village is 'island' amidst solar panels as rk
People living in a Welsh rural village fear becoming an 'island' after ministers approved doubling solar farm capacity across the nation. Latest UK government data indicate a green light for 65 new solar parks in Wales, including two being built…
Scientists turn plastic waste into clean hydrogen fuel using sunlight
A recent study led by Adelaide University PhD candidate Xiao Lu examines how solar-powered systems can convert waste plastics into hydrogen, syngas, and other industrial chemicals. This approach could help create a more sustainable, circular…
Pixxel, Sarvam Collaborate On Orbital Data Centre Satellite: Details
Pixxel and Sarvam are joining forces to launch an innovative orbital data centre satellite, Pathfinder, bringing AI processing to space and revolutionising data analysis. Pixxel and Sarvam are collaborating to build an orbital data centre…
Pixxel, Sarvam to launch India's first orbital data centre satellite for AI training
5 min read New Delhi Make us preferred source on Google As space-based computing gains steam, India could see its first homegrown large language model (LLM) trained in orbit as early as this year. Space-tech startup Pixxel on Monday, May 4…
A.P. plans 33 model fire stations in Amaravati for enhanced safety
The A.P. State Disaster Response and Fire Services department is planning to construct 33 model fire stations in Amaravati seed capital for providing foolproof protection from fire mishaps. “As many government buildings, residential…
Best Solar Stocks To Watch Today - May 3rd
Megatrends Still Matter: 3 Growth Stocks for the Next 10 Years First Solar, Solaris Energy Infrastructure, Enphase Energy, Nextpower, and Sunrun are the five Solar stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Solar stocks…
ESP32 Hosts SolarPunk Message Board
Solarpunk is sometimes thought of as the “good ending” to cyberpunk– there's technology, but it's community-focused instead of in the hands of evil conglomerates, and– if the name doesn't give it away– renewably…
2 Stocks That Should be on Your Radar as the Iran War Shifts Global Energy Markets
The war with Iran is creating one of the biggest energy supply disruptions in decades. Roughly 20% of global oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) had moved through the Strait of Hormuz before the war. With that now down to a trickle due to its…
Transform Your Home into a Smart Energy Private Grid
If your latest electricity bill made you wince, you're not alone. U.S. electricity rates have risen 21% in five years, from 14.92¢/kWh in 2022 to 18.05¢/kWh in 2026. At least 242 electric and natural gas utilities have already implemented…
Madagascar plans 46 solar projects totaling 932 MW
Madagascan state-owned electric utility and water company Jirama and the country's rural electrification development agency – ADER – have signed a total 46 memoranda of understanding for new solar projects in Madagascar. The…
Pixxel, Sarvam partner to build India's first orbital data centre satellite; launch eyed by Q4 2026
Spacetech start-up Pixxel has partnered with Sarvam AI to develop what they claim will be India's first orbital data centre satellite, marking a push to take AI compute infrastructure beyond terrestrial limits. Under the partnership, Pixxel will…
'Must not hold back on AI adoption for fear of job loss'
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence are expanding capabilities across understanding, prediction, and creative work, even as concerns around safety, fairness and transparency persist, Manish Gupta, senior director at Google DeepMind, said in…
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