Nickel-Mining Plants To Juice EV Battery Supply Chain
A new, plant-based source of nickel could help spare the EV battery supply chain from the burden of environmental impacts related to mining.
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Video: A Solar Leader Emerges In Rural Iowa
It seems counter-intuitive that a conservative farming community in southeastern Iowa is home to some of the most expansive solar generation in the US. But that’s exactly what’s happening in the area served by Farmers Electric Cooperative, the rural utility whose enterprising leader, Warren McKenna, saw renewables as a gateway to economic vitality.
Rooftop Farms by Cityscape Farms
No matter how great the idea, making a business from an urban garden is no easy task. Just ask Mike Yohay, founder of San Francisco-based Cityscape Farms, which provides urban greenhouse systems for agricultural production with low water use.
‘Plantagons’, New Vertical Farm Design, May Provide Produce for Future Cities
Vertical farm concepts for the urban environment are not new, but now, a Swedish-American architectural design company (Plantagon) seems to have solved once of the biggest challenges of urban vertical farming: the need for uniform, sufficient natural light to provide even growth of vertically-farmed plants.
World's Largest Solar PV Farm in Italy Soon
US solar energy company SunEdison has announced final plans to build the largest photovoltaic (PV) power plant in the world,.. in Italy. [social_buttons] SunEdison’s new solar PV farm will be a 72MW farm in the northern Italian province of Veneto near the town of Rovigo. It has just received final … [continued]
Wow, China IS Serious About Clean Energy!
Obama said just the other day that “the nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy,” and I got into a little discussion about the rivalry between Obama and the President of China, Hu Jintao, on this topic. I thought I would … [continued]
China Launches Its First Chicken Manure-Biogas Plant
In the race to implement new energy sources, farms have an advantage: lots of manure. A large chicken farm north of Beijing is taking advantage of this fact by using its chicken manure to generate power and heat. And this isn’t just a small-time farm—the 3 million chickens on the … [continued]
