Space Solar Race Heats Up, Now With Flying Data Centers
Space solar technology has created the conditions for launching data centers into orbit, taking advantage of ultra-low energy costs and opportunities for expansion.
Space solar technology has created the conditions for launching data centers into orbit, taking advantage of ultra-low energy costs and opportunities for expansion.
The US startup Quino aims to demonstrate that its new flow battery platform can repurpose former oil tanks for wind and solar energy storage.
Recently I took a stroll through the implications of Canada’s anti-greenwashing improvements delivered through the truth in advertising provisions of Bill C-59. Originally, it merely caused all oil and gas firms and their lobbying and propaganda groups to magically disappear their entire social media presence and large parts of their … [continued]
In the middle of 2024, I documented the remarkable disappearance of claims of environmental virtue from the websites and social media of Canadian oil and gas companies and the lobbying groups they employed. Overnight, the degree of factual accuracy on their public sites went up by a remarkable amount. Why? … [continued]
Let’s just say it: the building industry is responsible for some 40% of the world’s carbon emissions. That’s enormous! Energy positive through low wattage bulbs? Be serious. Huge building industry carbon emissions result from many sources: constructing a building, its years of usage, and dismantling after the building has reached … [continued]
December has been absolutely packed with big cleantech stories. The solar power and electric vehicle markets keep growing fast, evolving, and even surprising. To be honest, when I write these weekly and bi-weekly news highlights, there are ends up being far more big and noteworthy news than I expect. It … [continued]
ClearPower, the maker of a PV insert for windows was designated a top pick among new technologies by Architectural Record magazine.
Boston startup re-invents millennia-old firebricks for 21st century renewable energy storage and industrial decarbonization.
New SMR technology or not, researchers have thrown cold water on the idea of launching the nuclear energy industry into Australia.
AI enabled robots are everywhere, from self driving cars from Waymo to machines that install solar panels quickly and cheaply.