Joachim Seel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Bentham Paulos, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Will Gorman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory America’s electric power system is undergoing radical...
Transportation has been the focus, due to Tesla’s rise, but houses and commercial buildings are next When Tesla was still just an oddball upstart, there was...
“If we are finally going to start taking the IPCC’s findings seriously, it follows that we must begin advancing far more aggressive climate stabilization solutions than...
net-zero by 2050 was a joke, but nobody’s laughing Attitude matters. Imagine that in the run-up to the 20xx Olympics your country declared: we will strive...
Reducing fossil fuel use is important, but it’s more important to increase zero carbon energy production Increasing sustainable energy production is possibly the most important goal...
In the global effort to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, achieving a “100% renewables” electricity system is considered ideal. Some Australian states have committed...
Off the Massachusetts and New York coasts, developers are preparing to build the United States’ first federally approved utility-scale offshore wind farms – 74 turbines in...
Stacy Morford, The Conversation To most people, a solar farm or a geothermal plant is an important source of clean energy. Scientists and engineers see that...
Richard B. (Ricky) Rood, University of Michigan Global warming doesn’t stop on a dime. If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still...
Sam Wenger, University of Sydney and Deanna D’Alessandro, University of Sydney Large-scale deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods is now “unavoidable” if the world is...
To most people, a solar farm or a geothermal plant is simply a power producer. Scientists and engineers see far more potential. They envision offshore wind...
Scientists at a laboratory in England have shattered the record for the amount of energy produced during a controlled, sustained fusion reaction. The production of 59...
The head of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres warned governments, calling out for “immediate, rapid and large-scale” cuts to greenhouse gas emissions in order to curb...
A Sense of Urgency is Only the First Step This year’s Earth Day will be a little different than last year. Because of social distancing precautions,...