Wind Energy is a Key Wedge in the Fight Against Global Warming

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Wind farms reduce green house gas emissions in the overall electrical grid on close to a 1:1 basis. Typical grids produce 800 g of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) per KWh generated by their mixes of fossil, nuclear and renewable generation, and wind energy displaces virtually all of that. It’s difficult to imagine the mindset in which one would assert that black is white and that wind energy actually increases greenhouse gas emissions or does not reduce them

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Wind Energy is a Key Wedge in the Fight Against Global Warming 

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Students Discover Method for Developing Clean Hydrogen Fuel

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A pair of Rutgers University–Camden students has found a new family of functional materials for the production of clean hydrogen fuel through photocatalysis, a process that uses sunlight or ultraviolet light to drive chemical reactions.

See on www.camden.rutgers.edu

Back to the future: are we about to crack energy fusion?

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Limitless renewable energy from nuclear fusion has been “30 years away” for several decades, but now experts believe they’re finally closing in on a self-sustaining reaction

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Back to the future: are we about to crack energy fusion?

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Athletes to use hydrogen fuel vehicles at 2020 Olympics

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Hydrogen fuel has become quite popular in Japan, having established a relatively strong foothold in the past. The 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster increased

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Athletes to use hydrogen fuel vehicles at 2020 Olympics

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17 Emerging Energy Technologies That Will Change The World

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From space-based solar panels to micro-nuclear reactors.

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17 Emerging Energy Technologies That Will Change The World 

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As nuclear power dies, solar rises

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Denis Hayes and Scott Denman say on this Earth Day, we celebrate the true dawn of the Solar Age and decline of the Atomic Age of nuclear power

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As nuclear power dies, solar rises

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When It Comes to Solar, the Market Is Making Environmentalism Easy

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The price of this renewable energy source is now competitive with older, dirtier alternatives—and getting cheaper by the day.

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When It Comes to Solar, the Market Is Making Environmentalism Easy

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Student Research Leads to Method for Developing Clean Hydrogen Fuel

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Recycling waste materials into new products is a common method for sustaining a green environment, but it isn’t only limited to reusing old cans, plastics, and paper.  In chemistry, scientists use discarded materials to create renewable sources of energy.

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Student Research Leads to Method for Developing Clean Hydrogen Fuel

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It’s Not Just Wind Turbines and Oil Spills—Solar Power Kills Birds, Too

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It’s Not Just Wind Turbines and Oil Spills—Solar Power Kills Birds, Too
National Journal
In California’s Mojave Desert, a solar-energy plant is causing birds to burst into flames and fall out of the sky, like tiny fighter jets.

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It’s Not Just Wind Turbines and Oil Spills—Solar Power Kills Birds, Too 

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Solar Panels & Their Toxic Emissions

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Solar Panels & Their Toxic Emissions
CleanTechnica
Last year Robert Lundahl and I co-wrote an article about a California PV solar factory that is not disposing of their solar panels once their lifespan expires.

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Solar Panels & Their Toxic Emissions

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