The United States could achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 with a $600 billion investment, according to a professor’s sneak preview of a Princeton University study due out this fall.
That’s less than a third of the cost so far of the federal…
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Nuclear proponents are not ready to concede that nuclear power has been priced out of the U.S. electricity market, but they are increasingly looking at other uses for reactors and other places to sell them.
“I find a lot of the companies are being…
It’s clear enough from the discarded masks and gloves polluting landscapes and the ocean that many humans have not grasped the environmental message of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Now we must become more proactive to avoid another pandemic and address…
It’s a good thing you’re wearing your mask.
Most of the dust motes floating in homes are plastic microfibers, scientists say, that have no business in our lungs.
“If you think, for example, of a sunny day, and you’re inside your house,” said…
Private banks should administer government loans for innovative energy technologies, just as they issued the government’s emergency pandemic loans, former Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday.
Many businesses are reluctant to borrow from the…
Prowling at the top of the food chain, sharks maintain the balance of the ocean ecosystem. Without them, lesser predators would deplete herbivorous fish that modulate the abundance of plant life.
Yet an estimated 100 million sharks are killed each…
Coral reefs routinely host a quarter of the ocean’s biodiversity, and at some point more than half of fish species spend time on a reef. Those fish go on to feed hundreds of millions of people, but back at the foundation of the food chain, corals are…
The most efficient energy storage technology may be as close as the nearest hill, according to former Energy Secretary Steven Chu, and almost as old.
“It turns out the most efficient energy storage is you take that electricity and you pump water up a…
While scientists have succeeded at restoring some coral reefs, humans alone can’t save all the reefs that are dying across the globe, a NOAA reef restoration manager said this month.
Even in the best of conditions, human divers can spend only three…
Wind farms have traditionally made less money for the electricity they produce because they have been unable to predict how windy it will be tomorrow.
“The way a lot of power markets work is you have to schedule your assets a day ahead,” said Michael…
