A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine tackles a controversial question: Is solar geoengineering – an approach designed to cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight …
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A group of powerful Republican senators who alleged that Chinese companies are using forced labour in Xinjiang region, has introduced a legislation to prohibit federal funds from being used to …
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A decade ago, a small electric vehicle startup died. But now it’s back from the dead — and so is the government program that helped kill it. This zombie company, …
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Apple announced Wednesday that it’s building a big battery storage project at a Northern California solar farm it spearhead in 2015. But what the company didn’t share is that the …
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Peanut butter and jelly. Hall & Oates. Now there’s a duo that could literally and figuratively be even more powerful: solar panels and canals. What if instead of leaving canals …
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Seven ‘Alien Space Rocks’ May Pass Through Our Solar System Every Year And We Need To Intercept One
Illustration of Oumuamua. In 2017, astronomers discovered an object in the Solar System which seemed … [+] out of place. Its orbit is highly hyperbolic, not parabolic, which implies it …
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Solar stocks have been popping recently and for good reason. According to the International Energy Agency, in the next 10 years solar output will create a surge in the renewable …
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You Need To Re-Learn Our Solar System. Welcome To ‘Farfarout,’ Now Officially Its Most Distant World
This illustration imagines what the distant object nicknamed “Farfarout” might look like in the … [+] outer reaches of our Solar System. The most distant object yet discovered in our …
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Goals of green energy, empowerment, social welfare reflected in solar manufacturing unit launched by women’s self-help group in Wardha
A VILLAGE in Deoli tehsil of Wardha district combines top socio-economic goals of green energy, women empowerment and welfare of backward communities at one go. A group of 217 women …
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Visakhapatnam: The Andhra Pradesh government has finalised tenders for the setting up of solar plants to generate 6,400MW across 10 parks in the state on Thursday. Four parks are coming …
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Workers photographed walking past a section of solar panels at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai on March 20, 2017. STRINGER | AFP | Getty Images BMW …
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Who knew inverters were a big deal? Inverters attach to solar panels and change direct current into alternating current, allowing connections to the grid. While that sounds mundane, inverters can …
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Board ready to provide support to establish 75,000 plants for consumers: official The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) expects to achieve solar power generation to the tune of 1,000 MW …
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Mercury is about to reach its “greatest eastern elongation.” getty Have you ever seen the Solar System’s smallest planet with your own eyes? An inner planet that pings around the Sun …
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Kochi: Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL), which became the worlds first solar-powered airport in 2015, on Sunday added another feather to its cap, commissioning two floating solar power plants in …
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This data looks nice and linear. That means that the inner and outer planets orbit at a constant rotational rate (which is expected). The angular velocity is defined as the …
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Ten times longer than the Grand Canyon, and three times as deep, the Valles Marineris (The Mariner Valley) cuts through the surface of Mars. This grandest canyon in the Solar …
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As priorities shift, world’s largest cement firm inks $3.4 billion deal to focus on solar, green roofs
LafargeHolcim’s logo displayed at its offices in Switzerland, September 2019. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cement maker LafargeHolcim has agreed to buy specialist roofing company Firestone Building Products …
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Some of the oldest known meteorites might just explain how water came to Earth. Gizmodo reports that scientists have discovered evidence carbonaceous chondrites, a group of meteorites from the formation …
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A meteor from the Geminid meteor shower on December 12, 2009 above Southold, New York. Photo: STAN HONDA/AFP (Getty Images) Meteorites that formed in the earliest days of the solar …
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It is absolutely safe to eat, drink, and carry out your daily activities during an eclipse. Parts of Chile and Argentina will witness on December 14 a total solar eclipse, …
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This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates …
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It’s A Big Year For The Solar System. Here’s When You Can See Saturn, Jupiter, Mars And Venus With Naked Eyes
The planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. getty Did you see the “Christmas Star?” December 21’s rare (and somewhat auspicious?) celestial event saw Jupiter and …
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New year means CES, which means new TVs. LG already announced it’ll launch a line of QNED 4K and 8K screens with mini LED backlighting, and now Samsung revealed its …
