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Solar power is growing rapidly in virtually every country around the world, as costs continue to fall each year.

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T&E calls for a temporary tax on oil companies’ super-profits. Oil majors are set to make a €24 billion¹ windfall from European drivers off the back of the latest conflict in the Middle East, a new T&E tracker shows². Oil companies have already made €1.3 billion in excess profits, the ... [continued]

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Every few years, a chemistry paper wanders out of the lab, passes through a university press office, gets dressed up by a science news site, and lands on social media as if humanity is one strained molecule away from solving energy storage. The latest example is Molecular Solar Thermal storage, ... [continued]

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Ten new EV fast chargers will be installed along travel corridors in Indiana. They will be located at three sites: Battery Innovation Center – An advanced battery research facility JJ’s Travel Plaza – A fueling destination located along US 31 The Beef House Restaurant and Dinner Theatre – A fueling ... [continued]

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Energy industry analysts are warming that $200 a barrel oil is possible if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed into April.

The post $200 A Barrel Oil? — Bloomberg Says It’s Possible appeared first on CleanTechnica.

For decades, there was no record of Andrena rehni exisiting in the US. In 2018 it was found in Maryland and five years later I found it in New York State

I’ve loved insects ever since I was a kid and spent summers looking for them. My mum would always tell me that from the age of one – even before I could walk – I would happily sit outside, watching ants and trying to follow them back to their colony.

As an adult, I take people out to meadows with nets to catch insects and take a close look at them. It’s about trying to cultivate a childlike curiosity that people have lost or forgotten in daily life.

Fossil-fuel burning at Ohio facility could burn longer, leaving Middletown residents to face environmental risks

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It was just a few months after moving from Louisville to Middletown, Ohio, four years ago that Vivian Adams’s six-year-old daughter’s asthma problem worsened.

“My daughter was born prematurely so she already had lung issues,” she says, “[but] it’s gotten worse. She stays sick and coughing and can’t breathe. She’s had to go on everyday medication for her asthma, plus she has a rescue inhaler.”

‘Precious ocean life is being pushed to the brink,’ say campaigners, arguing that overfished marine areas are ‘protected only on paper’

Almost 40% of England’s seas are designated as marine protected areas. Their purpose, the government says, is “to protect and recover rare threatened and important marine ecosystems … from damage caused by human activities”.

And yet in the four years to 2024, trawlers using vast nets, including those that scour the seabed, caught more than 1.3m tonnes of fish within them, according to official figures that campaigners say show they are “little more than lines on a map”.

Another week has flown by, and it’s time to review and reflect on the top cleantech stories of the week. Here’s a hint: it’s about batteries, batteries, batteries. And also a bit of solar, a bit of fossil fuel war, and a bit of EV stuff. Let’s take a stroll. ... [continued]

The post New BLUETTI Fridge Storage System, EV Battery Innovation Updates — Top Stories of the Week appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Argentina has been the Latin American EV laggard for as long as I’ve been following the regional transition: it was the last country to surpass 0.1% market share, then one of the last to get to 1%. It also had almost zero presence from the region’s most popular brands, with ... [continued]

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Nationwide reforms aim to standardise collections and expand food waste recycling to tackle stagnating rates

Recycling rules across England have long been inconsistent – but that will change from Tuesday when the government’s Simpler Recycling legislation comes into effect.

Repowering old wind farms with new turbines can extend the useful life of the site, add more capacity, reduce the number of turbines, or all three.

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Home to one of the world’s largest deposits of freshwater, the Great Lakes region will soon host next-generation generators – just as prices are being hiked across the US

Submersible hydroelectric technology deployed across the Great Lakes could become a key cog in clean energy efforts, supporters say, amid surging electricity demand and costs.

Home to one of the largest deposits of freshwater on the planet, the Great Lakes region has on its shores some of the largest cities in North America in Chicago, Toronto, Montreal and Detroit, where electricity demand is growing. While none of the five Great Lakes have significant tides or currents to fuel hydropower, several of the waterways that link the lakes do.

The unintended consequence of South Africa’s fuel crunch may be doing what the prevailing local environment that lacks supportive policy and incentives has long struggled to achieve: pushing more motorists to consider electric vehicles over diesel. In the absence of incentives for battery-electric vehicles (BEV) and in a year which ... [continued]

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Government told to focus on transition to mix of wind, solar, tidal and nuclear energy

More drilling in the North Sea would do nothing to improve the UK’s energy security, former military leaders have said, as a new analysis finds no fossil fuel importer is safe from chokepoints in the global supply chain.

The government should focus on a rapid transition to a mix of wind, solar, tidal and nuclear energy to ensure the UK’s future security, the former military leaders told the Guardian, as well as a programme of energy efficiency and a “major renewal” of the electricity grid.

As the clocks go forward and the UK enters British summer time, the Guardian photographer Sarah Lee has been trying to distract herself from gloomy world news by focusing on the miracles of springtime and coming of longer days

Holkham, Norfolk: They’re noisy and boisterous and should by rights should be breeding in Siberia, not eastern England. But I’m delighted they’re here

Barnacle geese in Norfolk still surprise me. In my childhood, tiny numbers from the Siberian population visited, but only in the cruellest spells of winter. Even though I know that they breed in Norfolk now, seeing 700 of them over Holkham Park today is oddly jarring.

I hear them first, as I tiptoe past an angry pair of cheese-beaked greylags to admire a cherry plum in bloom. I register their breathy, barking calls. Ah yes, the barnacles are back.

The great naturalist, who is about to turn 100, is still surprised by wildlife in his new series about British gardens. But not every pet owner will be happy with his top tips

Whenever David Attenborough speaks, the world listens – so his latest BBC programme, which heralds the broadcaster’s 100th birthday, is bound to attract attention.

Secret Garden, which features five different UK gardens, might not be what people normally expect from Attenborough, says the show’s series producer, Bill Markham, as “there’s no lions and tigers”.

By now, some of the initial buzz following Donut Lab’s CES announcement about its first production solid-state battery has subsided, and doubts it’s real have subsided. The company announced the “I Donut Believe” series, consisting of weekly third-party test results. The purpose and intention of the program was explained by ... [continued]

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Starmer to convene major energy industry and insurance figures to draw up emergency plans amid continued blockade of strait of Hormuz

Rachel Reeves will warn G7 nations they must move faster on clean energy to insulate economies against global price shocks from oil and gas as she and the energy secretary Ed Miliband meet G7 finance and energy ministers on Monday.

Keir Starmer will also gather major energy industry and insurance figures to thrash out what emergency measures might be needed to contain the continuing crisis from the blockade of the strait of Hormuz.