List of Renewable Energy articles
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Workers install electric wires at the Khazir refugee camp west of Erbil on Nov. 21, 2016. How to Keep the Lights on in Kurdistan
Caught between the United States and Iran, Iraq is facing deep energy insecurity. In Kurdistan, the solution may be solar power.
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The sun sets at the Summer Palace in Beijing on Oct. 8, 2005. China Is Winning the Solar Space Race
The United States should be leading on the energy of the future—but it keeps blowing its chances.
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A view of an 800-hectare solar farm in Pirapora, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, on Nov. 9, 2017. (Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images) Brazil Was a Global Leader on Climate Change. Now It’s a Threat.
Jair Bolsonaro’s government could roll back decades of progress on clean energy and reducing deforestation.
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Steam and exhaust rise from different companies on a cold winter day on January 6, 2017 in Oberhausen, Germany. The Paris Accord Won’t Stop Global Warming on Its Own
The world needs a new alliance of green economic powers to create a low-carbon economic zone.
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The reflectors at the PS10 solar tower plant sit at Sanlucar la Mayor outside Seville on April 24, 2007 in Seville, Spain. (Denis Doyle/Getty Images) Can’t Stop the Shining
Solar power is the world’s most promising clean energy solution, but governments must abandon outdated policies for it to succeed.
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Surrounded by miners from Rosebud Mining, US President Donald Trump (C) applauds after signing the Energy Independence Executive Order at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Headquarters in Washington, DC, March 28, 2017. President Donald Trump claimed an end to the "war on coal" Tuesday, as he moved to roll back climate protections enacted by predecessor Barack Obama. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) Is the Paris Climate Agreement Dead?
Trump’s new enviro-rollback seeks to undermine the landmark accord, but an America First energy plan might not mean pulling out entirely.
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PINGTANG, CHINA - MAY 07: (CHINA OUT) Aerial view of the construction site of a Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) on May 7, 2016 in Pingtang County, Guizhou Province of China. The dish-like telescope, as large as 30 football fields, will be completed in September 2016. Innovations: Can China’s Super-Sensitive New Telescope Talk to E.T.?
Plus, a sub that stays dry, a B2-inspired battery, and a DNA scanner that catches poachers red-handed.
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The Pollution Pain Of Rare Earth Village Rare-Earth Market
By monopolizing the mining of rare-earth metals, China could dictate the future of high-tech.
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CLAIRE TVAC - Hot Innovations: Why the Future of War Might Look Like Vegas
A naval laser light show, a cactus-inspired hydrogen car, and a new way to keep space clean.
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Kushner_image1-FULL copy1 The Coldest Case
Eugene Mallove gave up everything to pursue the holy grail of nuclear energy. Did it cost him his life?
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GettyImages-462133600_2_960 Saudi Arabia in the North Sea
The chilly waters of northern Scotland have become the testing ground for the next generation of green energy. If the engineers can pull it off.
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India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate and western Gujarat state Chief Minister Narendra Modi (2nd L) interacts with India's Madhya Pradesh state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan (2nd R) after offficiating the solar energy plant at Bhagwanpura, Diken district Neemuch, some 480 kms from Madhya Pradesh' state capital Bhopal, on February 26, 2014. Modi inaugurated the solar energy plant which is spread over 1,000 acres of land. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images) Is India Ready to Be a Solar Power Leader?
Modi dreams of a renewable revolution. But with his government’s reliance on foreign investment, shoddy infrastructure, and crippling red tape, that dream could be over before it begins.
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impulse Solar-Powered Plane Flies Over the Pacific in Potentially Record-Breaking Flight
If Swiss pilot André Borschberg makes it, the trip will be both the longest distance a solar-powered aircraft has ever flown and the longest time a pilot has ever spent in the air on a solo flight.