Biden Pledges $1.5 Billion to Fight Climate Change, Deforestation. GOP Seeks to Gut IRA
President Biden pledged $1.5 billion for international climate and deforestation funding on Thursday.
President Biden pledged $1.5 billion for international climate and deforestation funding on Thursday.
Scientists have created solar roofs for greenhouses, but these aren’t just any solar panels. A team from UCLA developed semi-transparent organic photovoltaics with added stability, so plants within the greenhouse can still receive sunlight while the solar panels harvest energy to power other components of the greenhouse. In a greenhouse setting, solar panels could help […]
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the availability of $450 million through the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) for clean energy projects — like solar farms — on current and former mining sites, a White House press release said. There are about 17,750 mine land sites in the U.S. covering 1.5 million acres. These […]
Oil prices rose by more than six percent on Monday after Saudi Arabia and other oil producing nations announced a surprise production cut of 1.15 million barrels per day from May through December. The announcement, coming a little more than a year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent energy prices skyrocketing, is another example of […]
According to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), electricity generation from renewable sources surpassed coal and nuclear in the U.S. for the first time last year. The increase in renewables was driven primarily by solar and wind, which made up 14 percent of the country’s electricity in 2022, reported The Associated Press. Six […]
A team of scientists have developed a robot, called SynRobo, to help care for a variety of plants growing beneath solar panels. The robot is designed to sow, prune and harvest crops, even in densely planted areas without interfering with nearby plants. The robot is designed to work with a Synecoculture system, which is a […]
The Battery Data Genome (BDG) project aims to compile as much technical data about renewable batteries as possible. Similar to the Human Genome Project (HGP), the BDG is led by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Argonne and Idaho Laboratories as well as researchers in Europe. The process would capture data about batteries from battery […]
Decisions made this decade will largely determine whether world leaders can limit global warming to 1.5 or two degrees Celsius of warming below pre-industrial levels and avoid the increasingly more drastic impacts of the climate crisis. That’s one key takeaway from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Synthesis Report of the findings gathered in […]
European solar companies disapprove of local content rules in the European Commission’s proposed Net Zero Industry Act that effectively limit Chinese imports, saying the rules will make the transition to clean energy more difficult. The rules require governments to reduce public funding and consumer subsidies for renewables projects if companies import a particular product from […]