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Saildrone: Solar and wind-powered vessel sets sail to map the ocean floor
A Bay Area startup that builds autonomous ocean data collecting vessels launches its largest ship this week, the Saildrone Surveyor
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Can We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
By the end of 2016 in the U.S., over 1 million homes had solar panels, with four times as many installed that year compared to just four years earlier. But if you don't own the roof over your head, or can't afford this kind of upgrade,...
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Britannica Insights: Renewable Energy
Learn how the coronavirus pandemic has changed energy consumption patterns and how these changes might affect renewable energy in this interview with Melissa Petruzzello, Editor of Plant and Environmental Science at Encyclopaedia...
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Tesla CEO Says Solar Understandably Draws Interest Amid California Power Outages
Tesla, has announced a third version of its Solar Roof tile for residential use and as weather conditions threaten traditional power service, like the intentional blackouts California residents are currently facing, Tesla CEO Elon Musk...
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Tesla Downsizes its Solar Business
The company's solar unit, which it acquired two years ago, will reportedly close 12 installation facilities and end its retail partnership with Home Depot. This move is part of Tesla's overall job cuts announced last week, an effort to...
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California's Big Solar Bet
The state became the first in the U.S. to require almost all new homes to implement solar panels, spearheading a push to bring solar energy into the mainstream.
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California's Big Bet on Sunshine
The state became the first in the U.S. to require almost all new homes to have solar panels, part of an effort to get half the state's electricity from renewable sources by 2030.
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Solar power: the next generation
Scientists are working on an exciting new material called perovskite – a light sensitive crystal which could revolutionise solar power. In just a few years its power conversion efficiency figure is nearly on a par with traditional...
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America's First Town Built on Pot
Cannabis company American Green recently purchased the town of Nipton, California for $5 million dollars, but what will it be used for? Matt Gray, CEO of HERB, explains how the company will build a cannabis-infused water system,...
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Making electricity affordable
A number of states are teaming up with the U.S. government to bring solar power to low-income households
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Remote off-grid community goes solar
Colville Lake, N.W.T., is the first town in Canada to be powered by a hybrid system of solar power, and batteries charged by the sun
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Solar Impulse 2's smooth flight across the Pacific
If humankind was a little bit wiser, solar power would be the energy for the world to go into the future, says pilot Bertrand Piccard
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Solar-powered wonder
Steve D’Souza reports on the historic 117-hour flight by Solar Impulse
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Made In Connecticut: ‘Bring Your Life’ with bike and roof rack carrier Thule
The Thule Group of Sweden has had operations in Connecticut for more than 30 years.
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Dutch students test-drive the world’s first off-road solar vehicle in Morocco
The two-seater, road-legal ‘Stella Terra’ model is powered via solar roof panels and has a 630 km range on a sunny day.
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Federal budget includes plan for clean energy grid
This week’s federal budget revealed the Liberal Party's plans to provide clean energy from coast to coast. But making that a reality will be a massive undertaking, logistically and politically.
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Green energy: Guyana's newfound wealth funding solar projects
Guyana is undergoing an energy boom after huge oilfields were discovered off its Atlantic coast.
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Solar Cars May Be Here Sooner Than You Think
Dutch startup Lightyear is working on producing the first solar-powered car. Lightyear's Founder and CEO of Lex Hoefsloot joined Cheddar News to discuss. “If you ask customers why they're not driving an electric car today, then very...
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Solar-powered fridge helps off-grid communities in Kenya store vaccines
Kenyan engineer Nora Magero is one of the minds behind VacciBox, a solar-powered portable fridge designed to store and transport COVID-19 vaccines to remote populations.
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The three-wheeled solar-powered electric car its Tunisian designer hopes will change city driving
The founder and CEO of Bako Motors, hopes his device could provide a greener, cheaper alternative for his city’s residents.
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Is New Delhi on track to become the world’s first fully solar-powered metro?
Setting an ambitious goal, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is planning to meet its energy requirements from clean solar energy.
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Behind the Growth of Renewable Energy in the U.S. Over the Decade
Emma Searson, an author on the just-released Renewables on the Rise report and the director, 100% Renewable Campaign at Environment America, joined Cheddar to discuss the rapidly growing renewable energy sector. Between 2011 and 2020,...
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This Dutch scale-up is creating a solar-powered alternative to electric vehicles
Dutch scale-up Lightyear is harnessing solar energy as an alternative source of power for its ultra-efficient vehicles.
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Lightyear to Deliver Solar Powered Electric Car by June 2022
Lightyear is looking to overhaul the electric car industry with a solar-powered vehicle. CEO Lex Hoefsloot joined Cheddar to provide some insight into how the technology will actually work. He noted that other companies are attempting to...