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Berkeley Earth study calculates that air pollution contributes to 1.6M deaths per year in China

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million deaths/year previously estimated from a Huai River study using Chinese air pollution measurements and mortality data. Pollution emission is often localized, they noted, especially in the Beijing to Shanghai corridor where many of the highest PM concentrations also occur. In an analysis of hourly air pollution data (PM 2.5 ,PM

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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

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With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh We are already facing serious ramifications of fossil fuel emissions. kWh average cost of electricity in the United States and globally.

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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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Ireland, South Korea, and Taiwan are among the other countries with bold floating wind ambitions. The steel mill, says Ideol, will be one of the world’s first to replace metallurgical coal with renewable electricity and hydrogen. Chinese turbine giant Mingyang Smart Energy Group is manufacturing a floater with dual 8.3-MW

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