Energy and Climate Change

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Rural Roundtable: Climate Change

What is the biggest threat climate change poses to rural communities?

Local Government Can Boost Solar, Electric Car Sales at the Same Time, Denver Area Finds

Colorado has found a way to boost solar panel installations and electric car sales at the same time, and now it’s looking to spread the idea cross the country.

Recycling Tech Gadgets Requires Innovation

"The bottle or can you drank from will soon become another bottle or can. E-waste is much more complicated."

The scientist who first warned of climate change says it’s much worse than we thought

Hansen is still worried that the rest of us aren’t worried enough.

Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries

"We’re in danger of handing young people a situation that’s out of their control."

Here’s how to develop clean energy on tribal land

Unfortunately, what many young indigenous people see is that our elected tribal leaders fail us by allowing the fossil fuel industry to continue to exploit our land and people.

Grid Defection Isn’t a Reason to Fight Distributed Energy–It’s a Reason to Embrace It

Distributed generation is making it easier to shift capital investments away from traditional generation and toward assets with better long-term return potential.

Startups have figured out how to remove carbon from the air. Will anyone pay them to do it?

All three companies talk about a hypothetical future in which CO2 will be harvested from the sky and transformed, using renewable energy, into low-carbon fuels.

Alternative Infrastructure: Electrified Roads

The concept is no different from trains travelling along a charged track. While any real-world implementation is a long way off, the TEV team is building a trial road for a lower estimated cost per mile than traditional highway.

Hydrogen for fuel-cell vehicles made from wind energy in Japanese test

One of the big questions surrounding hydrogen fuel-cell cars is how to produce the hydrogen used to power them.