Greta Thunberg Leads Iowa Students In Pop-Up Climate Strike
When Greta Thunberg decided to visit a climate activist friend in Iowa City last week, 3,000 people showed up to greet her.
University of Iowa
Solar Modeling & Monitoring Granularity Boost Efficiency
The days of over-designing and over-building solar power plants to make up for unforeseen generation losses are gone. This is largely thanks to the emerging solar strategy of pursuing every tenth of a percent of system performance by better understanding the impact of equipment specifications, plant monitoring, and maintenance on the Performance Ratio, and therefore on the bottom line.
Crossroads Project: Climate Science & Performance Art (VIDEOS)
Physicist Robert Davies started out his science career working on quantum optics at the University of Oxford in England. His interest in climate change began when he noticed the Environmental Change Institute, right down the road from his lab. Seeing a broad gap between what science knows and what the public … [continued]
Wind Power at Bargain Basement Prices by 2020
Researchers at Iowa State University’s new Wind Energy Manufacturing Laboratory are on a mission to lower the price of wind power down to six cents per kilowatt hour by 2020, and they are taking a somewhat unusual path to get there. Instead of focusing on new wind turbine technology, the … [continued]
