Enlarge / An offshore wind farm in the UK. (credit: Dave Hughes) After years of delays, the federal government has approved what will be the third offshore wind project in the US—and the largest by far. Vineyard Wind, situated off the coast of Massachusetts, will have a generating capacity of 800 Megawatts, dwarfing Block Island […]
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Enlarge (credit: VCG / Getty Images) On Monday, the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley Lab released a report entitled “Halfway to Zero,” referring to a goal of a zero-emission US electric grid. The report’s headline claim is a bit bogus, in that we’ve not cut our emissions in half relative to any point in […]
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Enlarge / Sights like these may be more common in the US before long. (credit: Nathan Stirk / Getty Images) On Monday, the Biden administration announced a major effort to kickstart the offshore wind industry in the US. While offshore installations have been booming in Europe, the US is still limited to a single, small […]
Enlarge / Lots of California’s water delivery system is exposed to the air. (credit: NSF) A major factor driving the growth of solar power in the US has been the economics of large, utility-scale solar projects. The scale of plants ensures that their developers can buy components in bulk; use larger, more robust hardware; and […]
Enlarge / A future green jet fuel? (credit: Picture Alliance/Getty Images) For many applications, liquid fuels remain the most practical energy supply—applications like aircraft and large ships being obvious examples. It’s possible to avoid using fossil fuels for these applications, since there are many ways of producing biofuels. But we can’t produce biofuels at a […]
Enlarge / Miraculously, the video at issue did not accuse wind turbines of causing cancer. (credit: Pictures Alliance / Getty Images) Our editor-in-chief obviously hates me. That’s the only conclusion I could reach after he asked me to watch an abysmal attack video targeting renewable energy—a video produced by a notorious source of right-wing misinformation. […]
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Expand (charge: TLPOSCHARSKY / / Flickr) Renewable energy costs have dropped to the stage at which, for a lot of Earth, solar and wind energy is now less expensive than fossil fuel-generated power. However, the variability of the power sources might make handling them in an electrical grid hard –an obstacle which can precise prices […]