Enlarge / Kites could make it possible to build wind farms on land that isn’t windy enough for conventional wind turbine towers. Peter Cade | Getty Images reader comments 121 with 78 posters participating Share this story Any kid who’s ever flown a kite has learned the lesson: Once you can get the kite off ..
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Aurich Lawson / Getty Images reader comments 101 with 76 posters participating Share this story Texas is now entering its third day of widespread power outages and, although supplies of electricity are improving, they remain well short of demand. For now, the state’s power authority suggests that, rather than restoring power, grid operators will try ..
reader comments 105 with 50 posters participating Share this story Earlier this year in the US, energy generation from wind, solar, and hydroelectric dams combined to top coal generation for over two months straight. This was the product of spring peaks in renewable generation and reduced electrical demand during lockdowns, but those events were layered ..
reader comments 67 with 44 posters participating Share this story Once renewable sources of electricity meet or beat the costs of fossil fuel generation, everything changes. With the immediate financial benefit just as clear as the long-term environmental benefit, utilities turn their attention to how to make it work rather than debating whether it’s worth ..
Enlarge / Wind turbines near Palm Springs, Calif. reader comments 90 with 61 posters participating Share this story More and more people are finding themselves with a new neighbor: a commercial electricity-generating system. As electricity grids move from centralized fossil fuel plants to decentralized renewables, the world is switching from fewer, larger plants to more, ..
Enlarge (credit: Germanborrillo) Wind energy has been identified as having an important role to play in the world’s move towards a low-carbon future. But due to short-term planning rules, it may not have as big a part as it could in the UK’s own sustainable energy generation. To date, when most UK wind farms were ..