Climate Change Is Raising Tensions Along With Sea Levels

Originally published on Nexus Media. By Marlene Cimons “The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bed sheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when their vision cleared, they were holding instead the gun they kept hidden in the bookcase.’’ This passage, from Summer Island, a [&hellip

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The Battle Over Energy Progress Continues

Originally published on Nexus Media. By Courtney St. John and Steve Hargreaves Nobody said the third industrial revolution would be easy. As is often the case with systemic change, it’s hard to see radical progress when you’re in the thick of a transition — and the energy transition is no different. Some players recognize the trend towards [&hellip

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Student Team Builds Solar-Powered Helicopter

Originally published on Nexus Media. By Jeremy Deaton This year we saw a solar-powered plane circumnavigate the globe and a solar-powered boat gear up to do the same. As of last week, we can add to that list of clean energy marvels the first-ever piloted flight of a solar-powered helicopter. A team of undergraduates at [&hellip

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Not Just Illegal, Targeting Solar Facilities With Fees Is Also Poor Policy

Originally published at ilsr.org. Should utilities be able to add special fees on customers that have solar or small wind installations? Not only is it against Minnesota state law, but in our recent comments to the state’s Public Utilities Commission, we explain how one-off fees on customers using distributed generation to cut their energy consumption violates [&hellip

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Open Letter: Why Are You Censoring Science, NRC Chairman Burns?

By Mark Leyse Dear Chairman Burns: You and the Commissioners approved the publication of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s decision to deny proposed regulations on improving evaluations of spent fuel pool fires, provided that the Staff’s draft of the decision was “subject to the attached edits.”[1] But what were the “edits” that you insisted upon? The [&hellip

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One Legacy Of The Rio Olympics Is Enhanced Urban Mobility

Originally published on WRI. By Toni Lindau and Bruno Felin The Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the first South American city to host the modern games, famously faced challenges in the run-up to the event – from construction delays to a polluted venue to worries about the Zika virus and urban crime – many [&hellip

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48 US States Have Wind Projects Under Construction Or In Advanced Development

Originally published on IEEFA. By Seth Feaster, IEEFA data analyst Wind power has rapidly become a significant source of electricity in the U.S., doubling its share of generation in just five years, to 4.9 percent in 2015. The  extremely low cost of wind power, along with cheap natural gas, has put tremendous financial pressure on [&hellip

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