Energy and Climate Change

Simply put, bitcoin is slowing the effort to achieve a rapid transition away from fossil fuels. What’s more, this is just the beginning. Given its rapidly growing climate footprint, bitcoin is a malignant development, and it’s getting worse.

The School Board recently voted to seek a $192,000 renewable energy grant to install solar panels atop four elementary schools — Emily Dickinson, Morning Star, Hyalite and Meadowlark.

Google’s "captain of moonshots" details the internet giant’s wackier attempts to generate, store and use energy.

The competition seeks biomimetic innovations (products, services, or systems) that address any aspect of climate change adaptation, mitigation, and reversal in any sector of the economy.

Pine Island and Thwaites are among the continent’s biggest and fastest-melting glaciers – and they could unleash 11 feet of sea level rise if they collapse.

Could actually replace around 10 percent of coal utilized for electricity generation.

As if graphene wasn’t versatile enough already, researchers at the University of Arkansas have now found a way for the two-dimensional material to be used as a source of clean and potentially unlimited energy. By tapping into the random fluctuations of the carbon atoms that make up graphene sheets, the scientists can generate an alternating current strong enough to indefinitely power a wristwatch.

Graphene is a lattice of carbon just one atom thick, and its incredible strength and conductivity of electricity and heat mean it might soon start cropping up in everything from light bulbs to dental fillings, microphones, motorbike helmets, water filters, smartphone screens and even heat-dissipating shoes

"The only Idahoans who are not impacted by climate change are those who don’t use water, electricity, eat, breathe, recreate, rely on the forest endowment for their children’s education," Hardesty said at the Idaho Climate Summit.

MIT researchers create material for a chemical heat "battery" that could release its energy on demand.

"This is Idaho – we know how to work together and we know how to solve problems," said Heather Kimmel of the American Lung Association. "We can identify solutions that will protect Idaho’s economy, Idaho’s water, Idaho’s land, Idaho’s health, and Idaho’s future for generations to come."