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🧬 The Sahara is greening, and this could (re)shape our climate 🌱
The mere mention of the Sahara often conjures an image of an unchanging, inhospitable desert fixed in its aridity. And yet, ...
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Why Is Covering the Sahara Desert with Solar Panels a Very Bad Idea?
The Sahara desert plays a crucial role in global climate regulation. A study published in Nature examined the potential ...
China tames ‘sea of death’ desert’s shifting sand with giant solar wall, trees
The Taklamakan Desert in China is now surrounded by a 1900-mile green belt to prevent sandstorms and protect local ...
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Why aren’t there solar-powered cars?
Solar cars exist. The best place to see them is the World Solar Challenge, a race that's held every two years in Australia ...
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Solar and storage projects make headlines, but will they survive? (Interview)
On today’s episode of Quick Charge, we’ve got big solar breaking ground all over, despite the incoming administration’s supposed lack of love for home-grown clean energy. Our guests today ...
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Typical family farm 'would have to spend 159% of its profits for a decade to pay inheritance tax', says rural land group
A typical family farm would have to put 159% of annual profits into paying the new inheritance tax every year for a decade and could have to sell 20% of their land, according to new analysis.
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Packed house as Henderson County Fiscal Court considered 2-year moratorium on new solar farms
The meeting centered around discussions about implementing a two-year moratorium on new solar farm permits and the broader impact of green energy projects in the county. Many in attendance expressed ...
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China’s 3 GW solar plant with nearly 6,000,000 panels to power millions of homes
The Mengxi Blue Ocean Photovoltaic Power Station is also special because it hosts the first large-scale outdoor solar testing base in the Gobi desert, helping China gather more data on setting up ...
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China’s 3GW Gobi Desert solar farm can power 2 million households
China just connected its largest single-capacity solar farm built on a former coal mining area, which is in the Gobi Desert, to the grid. The Mengxi Blue Ocean Photovoltaic Power Station ...
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‘Utterly shameful’: Lives and land destroyed by solar and wind farms
telling MPs that lives and land were being destroyed by the rollout of solar and wind farms, pumped hydro projects and high-voltage lines. She joined other speakers including South Burnett mayor ...
Sydney Morning Herald20d
World’s biggest renewables hub planned for Australian desert
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Plans for a $100 billion wind and solar project – the biggest of its kind – in the Australian desert have raised hopes that US ...
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Commentary: Floating solar farms may be key to Singapore’s clean energy future
SINGAPORE: If all goes to plan, Batam’s Duriangkang reservoir will be home to the world’s largest floating solar farm and supply Singapore with low-carbon electricity in a few years.