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A white box hums at the edge of a Virginia solar field, tucked between rows of dark panels. Lift the lid and the air turns thick…
Binghamton University New York materials scientists fabricated an experimental paper-based wallpaper that generates steady electrical power from ambient indoor humidity. Traditional smart-home sensors require frequent battery…
Two bogs in southeast MA, one in Kingston (Ring Rd) and one in Plymouth (Black Cat), hadn’t been used for years. They were financially unproductive and…
Hay stubble stretches flat to the horizon along a county road in northern Missouri. Overhead, a row of white towers turns against the sky. Then one…
A number of utility projects start with a hunt for some available area. A big open field works well. An empty piece of property works. So…
A wind turbine blade spends about two decades facing straight into the weather, and one narrow strip along its front edge takes the worst of it.…
There is a line of painted panels standing in the grass outside a village in eastern Wyoming. Each one is a slice of a wind turbine…
The road runs straight through spruce forest in central Sweden, past turbine after identical turbine. At one of them, something is missing. A clean white blade…
Mechanical engineers have developed a miniaturized wave energy harvester that utilizes an internal pendulum system. It makes use of the mechanical energy in waves and converts…
Water has been sitting quietly within a lined reservoir located close to Central Point, Oregon. However, things are about to get much more exciting for the…
A green laser line flicks across a cracked solar panel on a lab bench. There is no furnace glowing behind it. There is no tank of…
UC San Diego scientists devised a temporary salt-melting technique to heal defects in solar cell structure during a laboratory production process. Crystal formation occurs through the…
In a yard outside Brooks, Alberta, stacks of expired solar panels sit waiting for somewhere to go. Until this month, the cheapest answer was a landfill.…
A solar panel looks sealed for good. Glass on top, metal on the back, and in between a plastic laminate bonded tight enough to survive a…
Engineers at Florida International University have designed an ultra-thin, dual-purpose solar panel that converts daylight into electricity with an efficiency of 22 percent, then changes polarity…
New York farms are now expected to do two things: grow food and generate electricity. Ground mounted solar usually takes up space that has been cleared…
A retired rooftop panel sits on a warehouse scale, cracked at one corner, its aluminum frame gone chalky with age. Scrap buyers price it as glass.…
A 2.75 inch sphere of ice weighs about 5.6 ounces. Thrown by hand it would sting. Fired down a tube at a steel instrument, it registered 3,252…
Each cell in your body is producing its own power, but we’re not using that. Every beat represents wasted mechanical work that centralized batteries ignore today.…
A stone bridge in the Yorkshire Dales vanished in a single night. Floodwater came down Swaledale carrying boulders and debris. By morning, the crossing over Cogden…
In Central Oregon, a farming irrigation district has taken measures that will see it construct a solar array plant of up to 1 megawatt on the…
A small technological revolution has been developing over the horizon. It is taking shape where rolling hills of farmland meet the wide-open skies. Farmers for generations…
A single steel leg rises out of the North Sea, barely visible below the waves. Every inch of it below the surface is covered in something…
A steel platform stands on three piles in the Cape Cod Canal, just yards from the old railroad bridge. The water underneath it runs fast enough…
The picture most people have of lithium is a hard rock mine or a blue evaporation pond. Nobody pictures a power plant. At the southern edge…
Small towns in the Midwest are finding it difficult to expand renewable energy. The loss of prime agricultural land is creating great economic difficulties for these…
The river at Hanover Pond Dam does not sound like a power plant. It sounds like a drainpipe the size of a school bus. Water spirals…
A large-scale renewable energy installation was put in place above unused stormwater retention ponds at the newly constructed Epic Universe theme park by Universal Orlando Resort.…
Retention ponds sit along high-speed roads across fast-growing modern urban areas. They are designed to do only one thing. They collect rainstorm runoff from all the…
A net comes up heavy in the tailwater below a Missouri River dam. Something large is tangled in the mesh. What the crew lifts out is…
Steam has been rising off the hills north of Santa Rosa for longer than anyone has kept records. Most of the wells up there are old…
An important step has been made in respect to decarbonizing the aviation industry with regard to the construction of an on-site solar power station by London…
Solar farms are often viewed as a choice. A piece of land can either produce food or produce electricity. Researchers at Agrivoltaics at Iowa State University…
Every autumn, something ancient slips down the St. Lawrence River toward the sea. These are the oldest eels in the watershed, finally ready to spawn. To…
The gates were already coming down when the truck was still two thirds of the way across the tracks. A flatbed trailer was hauling a single…
The alarm at the coastal plant came from the water, not the core. Pumps that normally pull in a steady, boring flow of seawater began choking…
Hidden away alongside the Twin Lakes, below the tallest mountain in Colorado, is the Mount Elbert Powerplant, a huge secret power battery. The majority of this…
Modernizing a wind farm means more than just putting up more turbines. Sometimes, old turbines get taken down, and the space gets filled with new turbines…
There was almost nothing to see on the water. No white water, no dark shape breaking the surface, nothing a radar screen would reliably flag as…
In the quest for renewable energy, Avangrid, a provider of clean energy solutions, implemented a novel AI application designed to help maintain wind turbines throughout the…
The Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility in Oregon represents something different. Instead of being a single source, the facility includes all three sources on the same site.…
A square of broken solar panel sits on a lab bench, its glass still stuck fast to a dull sheet of plastic underneath. Nine beakers of…
A crew at Folsom Dam in California cranked open a spillway gate to keep water moving during a scheduled shutdown. The lake behind it sat at…
Vestas signed a significant supply deal for four advanced wind turbines needed for building the new Kapuni wind power plant and integrated hydrogen facility in New…
Many airports rely on a significant amount of electricity each day to maintain runway safety, terminal areas, security systems, communications equipment, lighting, and other operational necessities.…
A crane lowers a cut blade section onto a flatbed in the hills of Ávila province. It turned above the plateau for more than two decades.…
There is an issue facing the energy system of New York that very few people ever know about. Electricity has to be ready the minute somebody…
The sound inside the building is not a flame roaring but a steady mechanical grind. There is no furnace anywhere in sight. A conveyor carries chunks…
The combination of renewable energy production and row-crop agriculture poses unique land management problems for rural communities in the American Midwest. Scientists from the University of…
A forklift lowers its forks too fast and a wooden pallet tips. Glass cracks before the load even settles on the concrete. The panels stacked here…
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