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Muirhall Energy Unveils the UK’s Largest Subsidy-Free Onshore Development at Newly-Completed Crossdykes Wind Farm

Independent Scottish renewable energy developer Muirhall Energy has unveiled the country’s largest subsidy-free onshore wind farm following the completion of Crossdykes in Dumfries and Galloway.

8 Oct 2021

Sasol Announces Lead Role in Feasibility Study for the Boegoebaai Green Hydrogen Project

The Boegoebaai "green hydrogen" development has been designated a Strategic Integrated Project in the South African National Development Plan and is located in the Namakwa Special Economic Zone.

8 Oct 2021

New Thermal Energy Storage Methods Using Hot Sand

An innovative new energy storage technology that uses hot sand is being developed as an alternative in the field of renewable energy technologies. That feeling of hot sand on the soles of your feet is what sparked an investigation around the ability of sand to absorb and retain heat, giving rise to new thermal energy storage processes.

By David J. Cross 7 Oct 2021

Ice Core Records Reveal Past Human Impacts on the Environment

Several years ago, while analyzing ice core samples from Antarctica's James Ross Island, scientists Joe McConnell, Ph.D., and Nathan Chellman, Ph.D., from DRI, and Robert Mulvaney, Ph.D., from the British Antarctic Survey noticed something unusual: a substantial increase in levels of black carbon that began around the year 1300 and continued to the modern day.

7 Oct 2021

WHOI Senior Scientist Receives Grant for Ocean Current Research

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution senior scientist of physical oceanography, Dr. Young-Oh Kwon, and WHOI adjunct scientist, Dr. Claude Frankignoul, have received a new research grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections Program, funding their research project focusing on western boundary ocean currents and their correspondence with the atmosphere in relation to modern day climate.

7 Oct 2021

Experts Warn About the Growing Levels of Eco-Anxiety

Levels of eco-anxiety - the chronic fear of environmental doom - are growing, particularly among children and young people, and are likely to be significant and potentially damaging to individuals and society, warn experts in The BMJ today.

7 Oct 2021

Researchers Assess the Electricity Generation Potential of Rooftop Solar Photovoltaics

The first detailed global assessment of the electricity generation potential of rooftop solar photovoltaics technology has been conducted by researchers at MaREI, the SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine in University College Cork, in collaboration with international research partners.

7 Oct 2021

ULEMCo to Convert Aircraft Tow Vehicles to Hydrogen Combustion Hybrid

ULEMCo kick-off of collaboration which will extend the adoption of hydrogen fuel in another specialist vehicle type: airport ground support vehicles.

7 Oct 2021

Texas Droughts Were More Severe and Lasted Longer than Thought Earlier, Finds Study

One of the worst droughts ever experienced by Texas occurred in 2011. The dry, arid conditions caused over $7 billion in crop and livestock losses, pushed power grids to the maximum, triggered wildfires, and decreased reservoirs to hazardously low levels.

7 Oct 2021

Large Scale Solar Parks can Have a Cooling Effect on the Surrounding Land

Scientists using satellite technologies have discovered for the first time that large scale solar parks have a cooling effect on the land surrounding them.

6 Oct 2021

Powerful Tool Models Carbon-Sequestration Tax Incentives in the U.S. Power Sector

The Biden administration has made reducing CO2 emissions a policy priority. Although debate continues over how much to reduce and how quickly, it seems unavoidable that the power sector will face growing pressure to deeply reduce its CO2 emissions.

6 Oct 2021

Hidden Potential of High-Efficiency Solar Cells Revealed

One of the greatest challenges of solar cells is the Shockley-Queisser limit, the assumption that there is a fundamental limit to the amount of energy a solar cell can absorb and convert into usable energy.

6 Oct 2021

Scientists Review Methodological Approaches Used in Quantitative Climate Migration Literature

Quantitative empirical studies exploring how climatic and other environmental drivers influence migration are increasing year by year. PIK scientists have now reviewed methodological approaches used in the quantitative climate migration literature.

6 Oct 2021

United Nations Program to Address Sustainability Issues in Cities

The growing population stress, climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution are some of the challenges faced in the rapidly growing cities across the globe.

6 Oct 2021

Inland Flooding Responsible for Damage and Deaths from Tropical Storms, Finds Study

A professor from Indiana University Bloomington has published a new paper on tropical cyclone precipitation extremes. The study offers data on inland flooding that could assist communities to be better prepared for the high amounts of rainfall caused by storms like Hurricane Ida in the United States.

6 Oct 2021