Renewable Energy
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Environment
Environment USAHow Solar Panels Get Recycled – and Then Last for 1,200 Years (Yes, 1,200!)
An American solar panel manufacturer has developed its own technology to disassemble and recycle old panels, recovering up to 90% of the material inside, thus focusing on a circular approach to the waste problem.
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Environment
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Environment
Environment USASioux Tribe Builds Wind Farm, Names it “Breaking of the New Day”
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is developing a wind farm on its reservation in the Dakotas in the USA. They have named it Anpetu Wi - “the breaking of the new day” - in the Lakota language. It is the first tribal-owned public power wind farm.
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Environment United KingdomUK’s Biggest Pension Fund Pulls Money out of Carbon Industries, Shifts to Renewables
The government-backed National Employment Savings Trust (NEST), UK’s biggest pension fund, intends to stop investing in companies involved in coal mining, oil from tar sands and arctic drilling.
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Environment
Environment USAMore Coal Mines Close Than Open Worldwide, as Countries Go for Renewables
For the first time on record, more coal mines shut than opened on a global scale over the first six months of a year. That's according to the Global Energy Monitor, an American research and advocacy group that tracks fossil fuel development.
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Technology
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Environment
Environment DenmarkThis Country Will Be Able to Provide Electricity from Wind to 7.7 Million Homes
A historic climate agreement in Denmark will quadruple the country’s total offshore wind energy capacity by 2030 – allowing it to generate enough electricity to meet the demand of 7.7 million European homes.
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Environment United KingdomEnergy for 200,000 Homes From the World’s Largest Liquid Air Battery
An energy storage company is building the world’s largest liquid air battery, due to be operational in 2022, that could store renewable energy for weeks with the ability to power up to 200,000 homes for five hours.
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Technology
Technology GermanyThis Thing Floats in the Ocean and Makes Power
A German startup has developed a maritime platform that can generate off-grid renewable energy from waves, wind and solar sources. Its special power: a modular design, offering flexibility unique from other offshore wave energy conversion developments.