Tag: energy
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World’s Largest Fully-Operational Solar Plant Opens in Arizona
from inhabitat.com: Somewhere between Yuma and Phoenix, Arizona on a desolate stretch of 2,400 acres of land, construction was just completed on the world’s largest fully-operational solar-power plant. Known as Agua Caliente, the renewable energy plant can generate 290 megawatts at peak capacity – which is enough to power 230,000 homes and is comparable to…
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Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise Imperils Our Future
from postcarbon.org: Richard Heinberg speaks on his newest book, covering the short-term nature of the recent North American oil boom and the financial bubble that supports it. Heinberg covers the implications of the 2016-2017 peak in unconventional output by providing essential information for any community facing the false promises of companies planning to extract realit.
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China Takes the Plunge in Getting Power From the Sea
from stratrisks.com: A race is under way to unlock one of the world’s biggest untapped sources of clean energy – the ocean – with China emerging as an important testing ground. That could heighten competition with Western companies down the line, especially if Chinese businesses begin using technologies developed with joint-venture partners to expand rapidly.…
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World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency
Credit: Fraunhofer ISE from phys.org: German Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center Berlin announced today that they have achieved a new world record for the conversion of sunlight into electricity using a new solar cell structure with four solar subcells. Surpassing competition after only over three years of research,…
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Demonic Sound Came From Fukushima Plant
Carl Pillitteri was one of 38 Americans at the Fukushima plant when the earthquake hit. Pillitteri describes what he heard as “demonic” sounds and relates the stark fear he felt inside the turbine building that day. What is interesting and puzzling, Pilliteri, a nuclear technician could not pinpoint source of sounds in interview on PBS…