Posts from March 15, 2024

• Blade tweak boosts vertical-axis wind turbine efficiency by 200%
  Two VAWT blade profiles enhance efficiency by 200% and reduce damaging vibrations by 77%, optimizing turbine performance.
• US DOE publishes report on Commercial Liftoff of Next-Generation Geothermal
  The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released the “Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Next-Generation Geothermal Power” report, highlighting the potential of next-generation geothermal power to transform the U.S. energy landscape.
• US climate law has boosted solar, batteries; hydrogen, other initiatives lag
  The U.S. has doubled the pace of cutting carbon emissions since President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed in 2022, analysts and scientists said, with more than 80 solar, wind and energy storage projects taking advantage of the law's mix of direct payments and tax credits.
• Solar power occupies a lot of space – here’s how to make it more ecologically beneficial to the land it sits on
  As societies look for ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions and slow climate change, large-scale solar power is playing a central role. Climate scientists view it as the tool with the greatest potential to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2030.
• 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 […]

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