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Tesla Solar and Powerwall will fuel the exclusive, luxurious Panther National community

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Tesla and the new, exclusive, and luxurious Panther National community in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, are partnering to develop the world’s first residential community that offers luxury lifestyle amenities in an energy-efficient, sustainable environment. All of the houses also have a flat roof design. Credit: Panther National.

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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

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Instead, he and others are trying to invent new climate-control technology that doesn’t further exacerbate the dangers facing the planet’s climate. Winners of the 2021 Global Cooling Prize—both heat pumps—reduce cooling’s climate impact by as much as 80 percent. Still, in the U.S.,

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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The other goal, of course, is the system’s ultimate purpose: to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by channeling funds into cleaner technologies. Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: Mitigation.

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LG WashCombo vs. GE Profile heat pump washer-dryers compared, 10 reasons to get either

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In places like Texas, Arizona, and Florida, that’s extra heat for your AC to offset. If you live in a temperate climate and leave your screen door open all year, that’s not a big deal. That’s going to be expensive, particularly in very hot and very cold climates. Then, if you live in hot or cold climates (or both!),

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Why the Next Microgrids Will Be Well Connected

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So, vulnerable communities in Puerto Rico and elsewhere must decide how they will cope with future disasters, intensified by the effects of a changing climate. During prolonged outages, they can provide a cleaner and less expensive alternative to emergency diesel generators. The Adjuntas model is built around solar-powered microgrids.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Oceans, already expanding from warmth and melting glaciers, would rise, increasing coastal flooding; a chain reaction of climate changes is projected to lead to harsher, more widespread droughts and more powerful storms. Lomborg estimates that for every dollar spent, the world will avoid only about two cents of climate damage.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. As Senators Graham, Kerry and Lieberman try to resuscitate the climate change bill by introducing a revised bill in mid-to-late April, twenty-three U.S. Western Climate Initiative (WCI). Representatives Henry A.

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