A 150-year-old steel mill will be the first in the world to get the majority of its energy from solar power.
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It's not just the high cost of installing solar panels that's putting solar power out of reach for low-income…
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"The world runs on fossil fuels. I mean, how stupid is that?"
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Square, the digital payments firm led by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, is teaming up with blockchain technology provider…
Last summer, powerful winds from a derecho took Iowa’s only nuclear power plant out of commission. Because it was…
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Where I live in Baltimore, utility bills can be a crushing burden. That’s especially true for the city’s low-income…
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Despite being excellent tools for harvesting the free energy the sun is blasting towards our planet all day long,…
Most solar panels capture sunlight from only one side, meaning they can capture more or less of it depending on…
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The 2010s will be remembered as the decade when we could no longer deny climate change.
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Scientists have created something of a reverse solar cell: a tool that generates electricity from the darkness of…
Yeesh. This has not been a good news week for Tesla subsidiary SolarCity. It seems Walmart isn’t the only one claimin…
Reducing air pollution is objectively good. In addition to providing huge public health benefits, new findings show…
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We need a lot more clean energy. And the world is not installing it fast enough.
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The farther you get from the equator, the less effective solar panels become at reliably generating power all year…
From rooftop configurations to utility-scale facilities, solar panels are springing up like popcorn across the…
The Trump administration isn’t about renewable energy, but thanks to the Washington, D.C., city council, it could…
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Boiled down, climate change is a simple math problem. There’s a finite amount of carbon the world can chuck in the…
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An experiment using intense laser pulses has allowed scientists to watch plants produce oxygen from water part of…
Chernobyl is producing power again—though not the kind that triggered a nuclear meltdown 32 years ago. Ukraine is…