By Jess Shankleman and Hayley Warren June 17, 2017 Read the original article Here Solar power, once so costly it made economic sense only in spaceships, is becoming cheap enough that it will push coal and even natural-gas plants out of business faster than previously forecast. That’s the conclusion of a Bloomberg New Energy Finance […]
By Mikey Rox June 15, 2017 Read the original article Here Solar power has advanced leaps and bounds over the past couple decades, and those grid panels that harness the power of the sun and turn it into energy are everywhere. It’s not uncommon to find at least one house in your neighborhood that has […]
By Ryan Maye Handy June 13, 2017 Read the original article Here When oil prices tanked two years ago, hundreds of Pecos County workers lost jobs working at oil and gas companies in the prolific Permian basin. Last year, the rural county lost around 20 percent of its $2.5 billion tax value. But the unemployed […]
By Louis Medina June 12 2017 Read the original article Here Electricity is energy. Fuel is energy. Food is energy. Manpower is energy. All those forms of energy are essential to the running of Community Action Partnership of Kern’s Food Bank, whose food distribution poundage increased by more than 50 percent, from 9 million in […]
Animation. Cutesy romantic plot line. Futuristic setting. Feel-good ending- this movie is set up as something entertaining for the kids to watch, but ends up being just as engaging for every age. Then again, as a movie produced by Disney & Pixar, that’s about par. Yet the message is rather unique for their style of […]
By Rich Demuro June 12 2017 Read the original article Here A company called Zero Mass Water has created a special solar-like panel that creates clean, drinkable water from the air. You can now install them on your home or office. I’ve drank a lot of water from bottles, but it was never created like […]
By Bret Fanshaw June 8, 2017 Read the original article Here WASHINGTON, DC – A new analysis released today by SEIA/GTM Research shows that solar remains a growing part America’s energy mix so far in 2017, accounting for 30 percent of new energy capacity installed. California, North Carolina and Arizona rank as the top three […]
By LiLi Tan June 6, 2017 Read the original article Here For geometry teacher Walt Hickey, the thought to use solar panels in homeless encampments was a piercing revelation that started a student revolution. Inside Interlake High School’s metal shop, Hickey is showing students bit by bit how to design, wire and build solar panels. […]
By Jason Daley June 7 2017 Read the original article Here Last week, workers switched on a solar energy plant capable of producing 40 megawatts of power, which floats on a manmade lake in China’s Anhui province near the city of Huainan, reports Sarah Zheng at the South China Morning Post. The array is the largest […]
By Reuters June 6, 2017 Read the original article Here NEW YORK — The U.S. military’s biggest base on American soil has begun drawing nearly half of its power from renewable energy, days after President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of a global agreement to fight climate change. Fort Hood, in Texas, has shifted […]