As energy demand increases and regulators warn about grid reliability, underground storage may have an important role to play in shoring up the grid and keeping energy affordable.
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Solar power poised for even greater breakthroughs
"Starting over a decade ago, the institute set up hundreds of sunlight sensors across the city state and began continuously measuring irradiance, the amount of sunlight that makes it to Earth as clouds come and go. Those measurements now constitute a massive data record that researchers, and Singapore power generators and grid operators, use to predict solar power output five minutes to seven hours ahead."
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Australian Startup Mimics Trees to Make Cheaper Green Hydrogen
"The machines apply electricity to water and split the compound into its constituent elements of hydrogen and oxygen. It’s quite easy to make an electrolyzer at home that generates small quantities of hydrogen. All you need is two pieces of solid metal, some wire, salty water and a source of electricity."
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Startup raises $26.5 million for vaccine to stop cow farts and burps
"Methane is much more potent than is carbon dioxide, in terms of its trapping atmospheric heat, although it also dissipates down faster."
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Exxon Makes a Long-Shot Bet on Climate Tech. Sizing Up the Costs.
"Unlike many of the climate-related projects Exxon is undertaking, this plant is highly experimental. Exxon has previously said that its low-carbon businesses like biofuels and lithium-mining need to make double-digit returns. Direct air capture, by comparison, is more of a space-age science experiment for now—one that may pay off or fade away. The company isn’t disclosing how much it’s spending on the project."
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How Industry is Addressing Data Centers’ Energy and Water Use
As the use of data centers rapidly expands, the private sector around the world is working to meet the industry’s massive energy and water needs.
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e-Zinc Offers Solution to Long-Duration Energy Storage Challenge
Innovative startups like e-Zinc are paving the way for a more affordable and reliable low-carbon energy future.
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How Shade-Grown Coffee Can Save Our Mornings
In a warming world, coffee production is especially susceptible to drought. However, reforms in growing practices and crop management like shade-grown coffee can save the crop, improve the environment, and keep the world caffeinated.
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The world has (probably) passed peak pollution
"Note that this is not a finger-pointing exercise where rich countries tell poorer ones not to pollute. We’re mostly talking about local air pollution. The negative impacts of pollution are felt by domestic populations. It’s about how we ensure that the poorest countries can gain access to energy, alleviate poverty, and develop while limiting the number of people who die prematurely from air pollution in the process."
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A Yeast-Like Bacteria Can Cut Carbon Emissions While Creating Sustainable Aviation Fuel and Sneakers
"LanzaTech’s approach is to take waste carbon emissions from an industrial site and inject them into a bioreactor with the bacteria. From there, the bacteria digest the gas to produce ethanol and a protein coproduct."
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