Posts from March 16, 2024

• Renovated Microsoft Campus Set to Use Geothermal Energy to Heat/Cool Millions of Sq Ft. of Office Space
  It’s been four years now, but Microsoft’s Redmond campus modernization is almost finished. The massive 72-acre rebuild includes dozens of hopefully planet-saving designs and features, but none are more impressive than the Geothermal Energy Center (TEC).
• The solar eclipse is a critical test for the US power grid
  US solar power has more than doubled since the last eclipse. What will happen during this one?
• 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.
• What do wind turbines mean for US property values?
  Wind turbines have been the target of wild misinformation from Donald Trump’s lies that they kill whales to pseudomedical claims about “wind turbine syndrome”.
• 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.

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