Polystyrene Foam Can Be Gasoline With Some Help
Styrofoam – or closed-cell extruded polystyrene (XPS) foam if you want to be precise – is one of those materials that is both super versatile for packaging and insulation, but also a me…
Up Where the Air Is Clear
In Paris, I Take a Ride on C1, Europe's Longest Urban Cable Car Line
The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperature record.
Revolutionary Sand Battery Heats Finnish Town Using 2,000 Tonnes of Soapstone | - The Times of India
Discover how a small Finnish town utilizes a giant sand battery, made from 2,000 tonnes of crushed soapstone, to heat homes and reduce fossil fuel dependence during harsh winters.
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Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys
High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought
Solar is crushing gas growth worldwide, a new report finds
Solar added 17 times more electricity than gas in 2025 as countries shift toward cheaper, safer renewable power, according to Ember.
Shade Infrastructure Planning | UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation
Annexing the Future – Olympia Time
EVs Always Beat Combustion Emissions Performance
A pervasive story is that electric vehicles (EVs or BEVs) are actually dirtier than combustion vehicles if charged by a fossil fuel-based electricity grid. A new study reaffirms others that show, a…
The Undeniable ROI of Community Parks and Green Spaces - Trust for Public Land
What is the value of a park? - LSE European Politics
Wellbeing data suggests the monetary value of a park to residents of urban areas can be put at around €119 per resident, in any given year.
Why Your Neighbor’s Solar Panels Might Raise Your Power Bill
Vibes tell us solar is a win for the environment and the energy grid. But does rooftop solar negatively affect those without it?
We Mapped Rural Data Center Development – and Opposition. Here’s What We Found. | The Daily Yonder
Washington, D.C.’s metropolitan area has long hummed with data centers. The region, which encompasses much of Northern Virginia, has become known as Data
De-carbonization Is a Coordination Problem — and Private Markets Can't Solve It — Brief Ecology
Melanie Brusseler, US Program Director, Common Wealth
They’ve puzzled scientists for more than a century — and they’re almost everywhere in WA
More than 1,000 species of lichen grow in Washington. All of them offer a window into profound biological cooperation.
Illinois put community solar on a 150-year-old coal mine
For 75 years it produced coal. Now, this Illinois site generates community solar for local homes and businesses.
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Electric Vehicles Shall Prevail
US policy toward electric vehicles abruptly changed in 2025, rapidly winding down the sales incentives which had previously been in place an...
Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it
Repair Cafes are part of a new brand of anticonsumerism. The cafes and other efforts try to offer an alternative to mass-produced, disposable goods that have dominated the economy for the last half-century.
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A truck-mounted nuclear reactor that runs for decades without refueling is being tested in China
The project is led by Wu Yican at the Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology, who has described the system as a first-of-its-kind mobile nuclear unit. "Our...
Forget Lithium: a British Plant Is Banking Renewable Power as Frozen Air at 196 Below, in Tanks That Hold Their Charge for Weeks and Are Built to Last Half a Century
When people talk about storing renewable energy, they usually mean lithium. A wall of cells, a Tesla Powerwall bolted to the garage, a field of containers
Here's How Regulations Accidentally Killed Small Trucks in America
We used to have small trucks. Now, there's just the Ford Maverick. What happened?
Be Your Own Oil Company With Desktop Fischer-Tropsch Process
Plastics, oil, petrol– the modern world is entirely dependent on hydrocarbons. The good sources are slowly running low and supply is increasingly complicated by geopolitical factors we really…
While the world fights over oil, China just flew a 7.5-ton unmanned cargo plane powered by a megawatt-class hydrogen turboprop, climbing to 984 feet, covering 22.4 miles at 137 mph, and landing 16 minutes later with the engine running smoothly the whole way
China tests a hydrogen powered cargo plane, hinting at a future of cleaner flights without relying on fossil fuels.
RS-485 Sprinkler Control: Scaling Irrigation Across The Farm
Building your own sprinkler system controller isn’t that difficult on the face of it, but what happens when your system starts to grow, adding more distant areas? To tackle this, [Vinnie] leveraged…
Rare-Earth-Free Solar Cells Could Lower Costs and Boost Accessibility
Scientists have developed flexible, lightweight solar cells that do not rely on scarce and expensive elements. Using a perovskite semiconductor and microgroove embossing, this could reduce costs and expand solar adoption in low-income regions.
In Puerto Rico, an Innovative Water Treatment System Fortifies a Community - Inside Climate News
Researchers believe the portable system, the first of its kind in Puerto Rico, can be an essential resource for places that have long lacked reliable access to clean drinking water.
How Giant Tanks Of Fluid Could Help Support The Power Grid
If you’ve been paying any attention to the renewable energy space, you’ll know that generation isn’t really the problem anymore. Solar panels are cheap, and wind turbines are ever…