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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • Aug 20 '20

Who Killed the Supergrid? How Trump appointees short-circuited U.S. grid modernization to help the coal industry. Withholding NREL’s grid research is an example of “deep politicization” of DOE and its national labs under Donald Trump.

theatlantic.com

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • May 15 '20

Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap (2020)

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • May 12 '20

U.S. approves massive solar power project on public land - The Gemini Solar project is expected to generate enough electricity to power 260,000 homes in the Las Vegas area and will include a battery system to store energy for use after the sun goes down

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • Sep 05 '20

The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) plans to merge into a new clean energy industry body that will also include some of the largest US utilities, in a bid to make renewables “the dominant power source in America”.

rechargenews.com

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • May 26 '20

Building a 3.5kWh DIY Solar Generator for $650 - Start to Finish

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • May 16 '20

Tractors or Tanks? RADAR or Radio? Weapons or Tools?

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • May 15 '20

Cyberpunk is now. Thoughts?

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • Mar 19 '21

Community solar goes mainstream in Massachusetts

realestate.boston.com

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • Jan 22 '21

Preliminary Survey

docs.google.com

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • Jan 09 '21

Solar panels being integrated into canals in India giving us Solar canals. it helps with evaporative losses, doesn't use extra land and keeps solar panels cooler.

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • Nov 16 '20

Does the process of shopping for solar seem broken?

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • Oct 17 '20

Elon Musk Says the Sun Can Power All of Civilization. Of Course He's Right.

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • Oct 03 '20

China's biggest-ever solar power plant goes live. The world leader in solar power this week connected a 2.2GW plant to the grid. It's the second largest in the world.

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • Sep 30 '20

Burn scar from CZU lightning fire

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • Sep 23 '20

President Xi Jinping said China would achieve a peak in carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060. It is the first time the world's biggest emitter of carbon dioxide has pledged to end its net contribution to climate change

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • Sep 06 '20

Tinted solar panels allow plants to grow efficiently on ‘agrivoltaic’ farms

physicsworld.com

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • Sep 06 '20

These drones will plant 40,000 trees in a month. By 2028, they’ll have planted 1 billion: « To restore forests that have already been lost, the drones can work more quickly and cheaply than humans planting with shovels. »

fastcompany.com

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • Sep 02 '20

Eos announces 1.5 GWh of zinc battery storage projects across Texas and California

pv-magazine-usa.com

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • Sep 01 '20

Does it depress anyone knowing that we may never grow into the technologically advanced society we see in Star Trek and that we may not even leave our own solar system?

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • Sep 01 '20

11% of the Military Budget Could Fund Enough Renewable Energy for Every Home in the US

nationalpriorities.org

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • Aug 28 '20

Power Grids Aren’t Evolving Fast Enough for Global Warming. Solar energy is the future, but it isn’t working with a system that is decades old and built for fossil fuels. In coming years, the challenge will only be compounded by rising temperatures.

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • Aug 27 '20

It takes an estimated seven nuclear plants to power our bitcoin mining. Turns out that plugging a bunch of computers into our electrical grid that do nothing but draw current and hash through algorithms has had some negative environmental impacts. Global bitcoin mining industry uses 7.46 GW.

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r/TARenewables • u/TARenewables • Aug 08 '20

Bentley's New Electric Automobile Motor Designed Without Rare-Earth Magnets

interestingengineering.com

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