Posts from March 14, 2024

• Expanding the bull’s eye of solar development on public lands
  Proposed changes to the US Bureau of Land Management’s Western Solar Plan would clear the way for large solar energy projects to be built across vast tracts of public lands in 11 western states. The proposed amount of land available to the solar industry ranges between 8 acres and 55 million acres, depending on the […]
• Researchers make breakthrough in solar technology with 'stretchable' panels that act like rubber
  Stretchable solar cells that can function under strain have received considerable attention as an energy source.
• When wind turbine blades get old what's next?
  Between 85 and 95% of a turbine's materials, such as steel, aluminium, and copper, can be easily recycled, but the blades are a different matter.
• Hydro Power’s Conundrum: Rising Demand in a Drier Climate
  As the climate crisis increases demand for low-carbon energy, water-driven turbines sit high on the list. 
• Water is life. It’s also energy — whether you like dams or hate them
  The rain and snow that have drenched California and much of the American West over the last few months — at least relative to some of the hellishly dry years we’ve gotten recently — are a blessing not just for water supplies, but for energy.

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