Steve Hanley, Author at CleanTechnica

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Battery Storage Boom Brings Free Electricity To Australia

Grid scale and residential Battery storage in Australia has increased so much the energy regulator will supply free electricity next month.

The US idiocy in Iran will lead to massive demand destruction for fossil fuels, which are now too unreliable to survive.

Data center. Photo by Dennis Schroeder, NLR.

People in southeast New Mexico are concerned about a data center that will add 10 million tons of carbon emissions to the air.

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Illinois has become the first Great Lakes state to pass legislation designed to curb the discharge of plastic pellets into the environment.

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Bicycles lower pollution levels in cities and free up urban space, but at the expense of private automobiles.

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Many parts of the world are sweltering in record heat, but research shows people don’t want to hear about the causes.

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SpaceX plans to go public next month. Will new investors see substantial gains or covering Elon’s losses from his misadventures?

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An Post, the national postal service of Ireland, has achieved its carbon reduction plans three months early.

Meta data center. Eagle Mountain, Utah

Opposition to AI and the enormous data centers it will need in the future is growing in the US, as people begin to see the risks.

A wind farm in Guangling County, Shanxi, China. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Clean energy myths abound, but Earth.org has five strategies for countering disinformation that have proven effective.