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Smokey the AI

Cars That Think

Power companies trim trees and inspect lines on a regular—if not particularly frequent—basis. However, the frequency of these inspections has changed little over the years, even though climate change is causing drier and hotter weather conditions that lead up to more intense wildfires. Multiple power utilities, including.

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Torrance Enviro Commish - From Curious to CringeWorthy

Creative Greenius

She talked about the ability of a Torrance solar co-op to sell excess solar power back to the grid - even though that kind of feed in tariff doesn’t exist in Torrance and in fact exists in only one city in the United States - Gainsville Florida. But we ARE in a serious climate crisis and we have made those commitments.

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Why the Next Microgrids Will Be Well Connected

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The winds had barely died down when electric-power specialists and others began calling for a radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s electricity networks, one that would emphasize renewable energy, distributed generation, and, critically, microgrids. A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

Green Car Congress

several genes that allow the plant to use light more efficiently, increase its carbon uptake, and divert more energy to the. light energy. uptake, and optimized light utilization. University of Florida, Gainesville. Production of Terpene Biofuels in Pine The University of Florida project will increase the production.

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