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newscientist.com - Michael Le Page - Canadian wildfires are reducing solar power generation in Europe
Canadian wildfires are reducing solar power generation in Europe
New Scientist

To the many problems caused by wildfires, add reduced solar generation and more use of fossil fuels as a result. A study of the 2023 Canadian wildfires has concluded that drifting smoke caused a 3 per cent drop in solar power generation in both…

newswire.ca - Collective Mining Ltd. - Collective Mining Partners in Solar Energy Initiative to Benefit the Guamal Afro-Colombian Community in Caldas
Collective Mining Partners in Solar Energy Initiative to Benefit the Guamal Afro-Colombian Community in Caldas
CNW

MIAMI, Aug. 4, 2026 /CNW/ -- Collective Mining Ltd. (NYSE American: CNL) (TSX: CNL) ('Collective' or the 'Company') is pleased to announce its participation in Colombia's Comunidades Energéticas ('Energy Communities') initiative through a…

techxplore.com - Sandia National Laboratories - Solar-charged rock bed powers coffee roaster with heat stored for days
Solar-charged rock bed powers coffee roaster with heat stored for days
Tech Xplore

Michael Sweeney roasts coffee beans using energy from the sun at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility at Sandia National Laboratories. Sweeney has been collaborating with Sandia as part of a program to use solar energy to heat his coffee…

abc.net.au - Romy Stephens - Solar costs for business to be slashed under energy scheme expansion
Solar costs for business to be slashed under energy scheme expansion
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Posted Tue 4 Aug 2026 at 10:26pm Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen will announce the expansion of a solar scheme in a bid to slash the up-front cost of installing systems for businesses. Residential solar installations have been hugely…

digitaljournal.com - Dr. Tim Sandle - New model could accelerate development of next-generation solar cells and LEDs
New model could accelerate development of next-generation solar cells and LEDs
Digital Journal

The race to develop more efficient solar cells, brighter displays, and lower-energy optoelectronic devices has increasingly focused on a class of materials known as two-dimensional (2D) perovskites. Scientists have long been attracted to these…

motherjones.com - Kathryn Krawczyk - New York tackles the myth that solar is swallowing farmland
New York tackles the myth that solar is swallowing farmland
Mother Jones

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. In rural areas…

singularityhub.com - Shelly Fan - Heat Is an Orbital Data Center's Greatest Foe. These Tiles Dump It at the Source.
Heat Is an Orbital Data Center's Greatest Foe. These Tiles Dump It at the Source.
Home | SingularityHub

Sophia Space and Caltech want to fold the bulky parts of a space-based data center—solar cells and radiators—into all-in-one tiles with chips. Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, computer chips in a massive data center whirl into…

afr.com - Ryan Cropp, Angela Macdonald-Smith - Bowen taps factory rooftops to power renewables rollout
Bowen taps factory rooftops to power renewables rollout
Australian Financial Review

The Albanese government will adjust one of its key renewables policies to increase the amount of solar power generated on warehouse rooftops, which it says could more than triple Australia's rooftop solar capacity and speed up the green transition.

cbsnews.com - Aimee  Picchi - SpaceX shows strong growth in its first earnings report since going public
SpaceX shows strong growth in its first earnings report since going public
CBS News

SpaceX on Tuesday reported a second-quarter loss of $541 million on revenue of $7.8 billion in its first earnings report as a publicly traded company, offering a window into its performance after executing the biggest ever initial public offering…

globaltimes.cn - Qi Xijia - Record electricity demand in China reflects strong economic momentum driven by AI, EV and more
Record electricity demand in China reflects strong economic momentum driven by AI, EV and more
Global Times

The construction site of a 200-megawatt/800-megawatt-hour shared energy storage power station is seen in Xingqing district, Yinchuan, Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, on August 3, 2026. In recent years, Ningxia has accelerated the…

globaltimes.cn - Sun Langchen - Exclusive: China's newest Antarctic station achieves green energy breakthrough as 50% power supplied by renewables during polar night: station director
Exclusive: China's newest Antarctic station achieves green energy breakthrough as 50% power supplied by renewables during polar night: station director
Global Times

The 'wind-solar-hydrogen-storage' multi-energy complementary system in China's Qinling Station in Antarctica Photo: Courtesy of Qinling Station expedition team members China's Qinling Station, the country's newest Antarctica outpost, has achieved a…

livescience.com - Patrick Pester - Super El Niño may push an already stressed climate ecosystem across a critical threshold, climate change researcher says
Super El Niño may push an already stressed climate ecosystem across a critical threshold, climate change researcher says
Live Science

Forecasters are warning that the ongoing El Niño is likely to become supercharged in the coming months and inject potentially unprecedented heat into our already warming world. El Niño is the warm phase of a multiyear natural climate…

chron.com - Shoals Technologies: Q2 Earnings Snapshot
Shoals Technologies: Q2 Earnings Snapshot
Chron

PORTLAND, Tenn. (AP) — PORTLAND, Tenn. (AP) — Shoals Technologies Group Inc. (SHLS) on Tuesday reported second-quarter net income of $12.1 million. On a per-share basis, the Portland, Tennessee-based company said it had net income of…

smh.com.au - Nick O'Malley - Australia leads the world in rooftop solar, but only on certain roofs. Until now
Australia leads the world in rooftop solar, but only on certain roofs. Until now
The Sydney Morning Herald

The Albanese government plans to push solar power to the rooftops of large businesses, factories and warehouses across Australia's largest cities, as Labor struggles to fill what Energy Minister Chris Bowen calls the “missing middle”…

cbsnews.com - Florida could bar undocumented students from postsecondary career and technical education programs
Florida could bar undocumented students from postsecondary career and technical education programs
CBS News

Florida is looking to block undocumented students from attending the state's postsecondary career and technical education (CTE) programs. The Florida Department of Education is developing rules to adopt enrollment requirements that would make CTE…

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