wind power
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10 Wind Energy Stock Photos That Make Me Extremely Uncomfortable
Imagine you’re searching for a photo or illustration about everyone’s favourite topic: renewable energy. How can you best convey the possibilities and challenges of the clean energy transition and the promise of wind energy? Could it be… with a shirtless man holding a tiny wind turbine?
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Could the World Ever Run Entirely on Renewable Energy?
This week’s question — could the world ever run entirely on renewable energy? — is shadowed by a much larger one: Namely, will politicians and powerful forces of delay like Big Oil ever allow the world to run entirely on renewable energy? For the most part, we have put that larger question aside for this…
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The Real Reason for Texas’ Rolling Blackouts
Texas is really going through it right now. More than four million people are still without power in Texas Tuesday morning after a serious winter storm jacked up energy prices across the U.S. and froze key infrastructure in the state. Like clockwork, reports of frozen wind turbines in Texas have given conservatives a new scapegoat…
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Wind Farms May Actually Warm The US, Controversial Study Finds
Climate change? Bad. Wind farms to fight climate change? Maybe… also bad? That’s the weirdly veiled and instantly controversial conclusion of two new papers out on Thursday in Joule and Environmental Research Letters. The twin papers look at how wind power could create localised warming and how much energy wind farms produce. The results show…