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Arizona State Students Develop a Solar-Powered Air Filtration System

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The team worked with the nonprofit Taiwan Fund for Children and Families (TFCF). To improve air quality, burning unrefined coal for heat was banned. Team members plan to continue testing in order to enhance the system, and the group is working with TFCF to develop a local supply chain for the components.

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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 Increases in carbon dioxide concentration along with global surface temperatures are showing a decline in agricultural yields due to climate change. [

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TSMC’s Energy Demand Drives Taiwan’s Geopolitical Future

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The wind blowing in from the Taiwan Strait regularly blasts across Changhua Coastal Industrial Park. On this expanse of reclaimed land outside Taichung, Taiwan’s second largest city, 80 wind turbines, a pair of gas-fired power plants, and 4.3 square kilometers of solar farms generate electricity for Taiwan ’ s grid.

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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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To arrest the accelerating pace of a changing climate, the world needs a lot more clean energy to electrify heating, transportation, and industry and to displace fossil-fuel generation. Ireland, South Korea, and Taiwan are among the other countries with bold floating wind ambitions.

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