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Harvard team finds large-scale US wind power would cause warming that would take roughly a century to offset

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Extracting energy from the wind causes climatic impacts that are small compared to current projections of 21 st century warming, but large compared to the effect of reducing US electricity emissions to zero with solar. They find that large-scale wind power generation would warm the Continental United States 0.24 degrees Celsius.

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MITEI study finds hydrogen-generated electricity is a cost-competitive candidate for backing up wind and solar

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A team at MITEI (MIT Energy Initiative) has found that hydrogen-generated electricity can be a cost-competitive option for backing up wind and solar. California draws more than 20% of its electricity from solar and approximately 7% from wind, with more VRE coming online rapidly. —Drake Hernandez.

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Florida has no wind turbines but it’s going to ban them anyway

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Sunbather, Daytona Beach, Florida (1985) by Library of Congress is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 Florida legislature is about to ban offshore wind turbines in state waters, which wouldn’t be put there to begin with, to protect the beaches. That’s why Florida has no wind farms – either onshore or offshore. But they don’t. Absolutely.

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Arctic-ready version of Nissan Ariya EV unveiled for Pole to Pole expedition

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During this adventure aiming to kick off this March, the Ariya will need to cope with extreme terrains and environments, including ice fields, deep snow, steep mountain climbs and inhospitable desert dunes. One further innovation is the portable, renewable energy unit that will be used to charge the Ariya in the polar regions.

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Opinion: Reinventing fuel-based power for a more secure and resilient grid

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It is, however, a challenge that is being made all the greater as we continue to decentralize power generation with more distributed, variable and inflexible sources, such as wind and solar. Increasingly, wind and solar are replacing fossil fuels as our principle source of energy.

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New UK energy strategy pushes new nuclear; up to 8 additional reactors

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The Energy Security Strategy plans also include: Offshore wind: a new ambition of up to 50GW by 2030—more than enough to power every home in the UK—of which up to 5GW should be from floating offshore wind in deeper seas.

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Researchers demonstrate efficient electrochemical reduction of CO2 to C2+ alcohols

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Here, we demonstrated a rational strategy to synthesize the Cu catalyst under a CO-rich environment to induce the growth of defect-rich sites that are best for the adsorption of CO. A and B) Cu-DS catalyst synthesized under a CO-rich environment favors high coverage of *CO intermediate and promotes alcohol production. (D

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