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California is Throttling Back Record Levels of Solar

by James Temple

(MIT) – Without big changes, the oversupply of renewables will stall efforts to overhaul the power sector. Californians are enjoying a sunny summer, which means the state’s solar farms and rooftop... Read more →

Nuclear Power’s Cloudy Future in the Era of Climate Change

by Kristofer Labowski — 5 days ago

(Thomson Reuters) – When people think about renewable energy, they picture solar and wind farms or vast lakes captured behind solid concrete walls waiting to unleash its energy in the form of carbon free electrical generation. All of... Read more →

Complete Energy Democratization Is Coming

by Aoi Senju — 7 days ago

(Medium) – Decentralization eventually comes to every industry. Phones used to be regulated by the federal and state government, but with the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the industry was decentralized, and anyone was allowed to create... Read more →

Demand Shock; Closing the Open Door with a Thin Red Line

by Eric J. Vettel — 7 days ago

(The American Energy Society) – The historical characterization of the United States in the 1920’s as “roaring” and worry-free is almost but not perfectly accurate. It is true that seemingly overnight the Great War’s unprecedented... Read more →

Semiconductor Nanostructures for Flying q-bits and Green Photonics

by Dieter Bimberg — 7 days ago

(De Gruyter) – The discovery, development, and use of novel materials and technologies were decisive for the development of civilizations across the last ten thousand years. In the past, “new” materials were based on chemical engineering... Read more →

Green Chemistry in Mineral Processing

by Alejandro Alarcón, Carlos Segura, Carlos Gamarra, Juan Carlos F. Rodriguez-Reyes — 7 days ago

(De Gruyter) – The leaching of valuable metals from mineral ores is the basis of several extractive economies around the world, but the strategies employed often need to rely on dangerous compounds such as cyanides. However, “greener”... Read more →

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