Energy and Climate Change

http://www.thedrive.com/news/3208/uc-irvine-accidentally-invents-a-battery-that-lasts-forever

Unlike the most common rooftop solar systems, self-supply systems connect to batteries and do not send excess power to the grid.

Leading utilities are looking at how to make money from self-consumption service offerings, not just the sale of more electrons.

There are many policies that could expand deployment of energy storage, but this approach is one of the most potent because it mandates utilities install a certain amount of capacity, rather than just incentivizing it.

No one in Missoula has done more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over a lifetime than Loken.

Glenvill’s new plans for suburb YarraBend is hailed as the most environmentally sustainable development in the country, with homes inbuilt with EV charging, solar roofs, Tesla batteries, and more.

Sistine Solar’s rooftop panels are designed to match house exteriors for more appealing installations.

New research by University of Montana forest landscape ecology Professor Solomon Dobrowski shows that organisms will face more hardships as they relocate when climate change makes their current homes uninhabitable.

Deserts will reappear particularly in Nebraska, but also in eastern Montana, Wyoming and Arizona, northern Texas and Oklahoma. As dust and sandstorms turn day into night across thousands of miles of former prairie, farmsteads, roads and even entire towns will be engulfed by sand."

Depending on how they’re "programmed," these bioreactor walls will be able to take in inputs such as grey water, carbon dioxide, sunlight, algae, bacteria and nutrients, and in turn produce resources like "polished" water, oxygen, electricity, heat, biodegradable detergents, biomass and biofluorescence.