Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 333 with Synthetic fuel promises to put gasoline back in our future. Motorsport will be using it in 2026, and European Union law is using it as a stay of execution for the combustion engine. Advertising promises that a future without fossil fuels doesn’t need to be one ..
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Enlarge / DUNKIRK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES – 10/09/2016: A NRG-owned coal-fired energy facility that plans to convert to a natural gas facility. reader comments 82 with 60 posters participating Share this story Today, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia vacated the Trump administration’s attempt to take a minimalist approach to ..
reader comments 87 with 41 posters participating Share this story When it comes to strategies for slowing the effects of climate change, the idea of reducing wasted energy rarely gets a mention. But our recent Nature Climate Change article makes the case that reducing wastage in the power sector, focusing specifically on the grid, can ..
Enlarge / Matching electricity supply with demand can become more challenging with high levels of renewable energy. reader comments 161 with 76 posters participating Share this story The rapidly increasing amount of intermittent power sources on the electrical grid raise questions about how best to make sure a variable supply gets power to consumers when ..
Enlarge / In December 1750, Benjamin Franklin theorized that electricity could be used to tenderize meat, and tried to electrocute a turkey to prove it. reader comments 48 with 30 posters participating Share this story In households across the U.S. today, people are busily preparing the traditional turkey for their Thanksgiving feast—usually in an oven, ..
Enlarge / Livestock production has become one of the United States’ largest sources of particulate pollution. reader comments 105 with 50 posters participating, including story author Share this story Many economic activities create what are called “externalities”: costs that aren’t accounted for in their products but are paid for by society at large. Pollution is ..
Enlarge / Wind turbines near Palm Springs, California. reader comments 141 with 75 posters participating Share this story A remarkable thing happened in the US in April. For the first time ever, renewable electricity generation beat out coal-fired electricity generation on a national level, according to the Energy Information Agency (EIA). While renewable energy—including hydro, ..
reader comments 16 with 13 posters participating Share this story A federal judge in Arizona dismissed a lawsuit that sought to force the state’s major water supplier to continue buying power from the Navajo Generating Station (NGS), a 2.25 gigawatt (GW) coal-fired power plant in Arizona. NGS is the largest coal plant west of the ..
reader comments 44 with 31 posters participating Share this story A view of the new Tesla Powerpack installation in Osaka. 42 Powerpacks deliver 3.5 megawatts and 7 megawatt-hours of power. A detailed view of the Kintetsu railway. Kintatsu Railway On Wednesday, Tesla announced that it had installed a bank of 42 Powerpacks at a train ..
Enlarge / Wind turbines spin as steam rises from the cooling towers of the Jäenschwalde coal-fired power plant. reader comments 91 with 47 posters participating Share this story The International Energy Agency (IEA) released a report on Monday saying that in 2018, “global energy-related CO2 emissions rose by 1.7 percent to 33 Gigatonnes.” That’s the ..