Credit: CC0 Public Domain The Inflation Reduction Act, signed by President Joe Biden more than a year ago, is a game-changing law that invests hundreds of billions of dollars to…
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Developing a new method for remediation of contaminated wooden structures
Cyclodextrine gels as adsorber material enclose the toxic wood preservatives and completely encapsulate them. Credit: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft In Germany, there are about 3 million buildings that are contaminated with the toxic…
Illinois may be up to bat next to build first Great Lakes wind farm after Cleveland drops project
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Before millions of Americans installed solar roofs, before towering wind turbines became a common sight in Midwestern skies, before electric car giant Tesla rolled out its…
Motivation behind energy-efficient upgrades differs by location
In a survey of more than 10,000 people, researchers found that homeowners’ motivations for making energy upgrades differ regionally. Credit: Shannon Colson | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory With several billion…
‘Urban mining’ offers green solution to old solar panels
Workers push damaged solar panels into a machine to be recycled at the We Recycle Solar plant in Yuma, Arizona. As the world pivots from planet-warming fossil fuels to renewable…
Britain likely to generate more electricity from wind, solar and hydro than fossil fuels for the first year ever in 2023
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There are many milestones to pass in the transition from a high to low-carbon sustainable energy system. There is the first hour without coal, or oil,…
US utilities on track to be 100% renewable by 2060, says study
An aerial view of of the Power County wind farm – Power County, Idaho with Nordex N100/2500 turbines. Credit: Energy.gov Utilities in the United States have pledged to transition to…
New ‘n-i-p’ perovskite/organic hybrid tandem solar cells with efficiencies over 23%
Design of the modified normal “n-i-p” configuration for monolithic 2T-hybrid tandem solar cells devices typically free from complicated processes like atomic layer deposition (ALD) and/or a sputtered interconnecting layer (ICLs)…
