NEW YORK - Even as activists continue to face opposition-and even disdain-from climate deniers for attempting to raise awareness about the danger our planet is in, mounting scientific data shows that the world's ice is melting at a rapid pace. According to a study published earlier in 2021, global ice loss has increased rapidly over the past
NOVI – On the Nov. 27 episode of MITech TV, Kwafo Adarkwa, director of public affairs at ITC, discussed the changing energy landscape as it relates to the electric grid today and in the future. Adarkwa emphasized that while our energy landscape is heading in the right direction, we must be prepared to invest in
NEW CUYAMA, Ca. - On a 20-acre parcel outside the tiny Southern California town of New Cuyama, a 1.5-megawatt solar farm uses the sun’s rays to slowly charge nearly 600 batteries in nearby cabinets. At night, when energy demand rises, that electricity is sent to the grid to power homes with clean energy. To make
BEIJING - I’ve found plenty of fun and strange EVs for this Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column, but the electric houseboats have always been some of the most outlandish. This time though, the houseboat actually looks like something that you could conceivably live in. Largely surrounded by glass walls, the houseboat helps
LONDON - More than 30 million homes in Europe could meet all their energy needs using rooftop solar panels alone, according to a new study. Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany found that more than 50 per cent of Europe’s 41 million freestanding homes could have been self-sufficient in 2020 using just solar and
SEATTLE - It looks nothing like a typical "fan on a stick" wind turbine, but this oval track with evenly spaced wing blades could be an enormously disruptive addition to the renewable energy mix, since it slashes the cost of wind power to unprecedented lows. Wyoming's Airloom Energy has come out of stealth mode with
NEW YORK - Top scientists say the world’s ice sheets are melting more rapidly than expected and that world leaders must ramp up their climate ambitions to avoid a catastrophic rise in sea levels. A report released Thursday from the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative, a network of policy experts and researchers, pleads with world leaders
BRIGHTON – EV Charging POD has been developing stationary Natural Gas and Propane powered charging stations that allow Electric Vehicle owners to charge their EVs without plugging into the electrical grid. Now founder Steve Bratic has introduced a truck-mounted mobile charging platform that can fast-charge more than 20 EVs at a time. He also sells
LANSING - Democrats' huge clean energy package, requiring utility providers to rely 100% on "clean energy" in the next 17 years and empowering Governor-appointees to certify commercial wind and solar projects, has passed both the Senate and House. All but one bill in the seven-bill package – SB 277, which allows farmers with protected land
ANN ARBOR—One of the goals outlined by the Biden administration's National Climate Task Force in 2021 was to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to 50%-52% below 2005 levels by 2030. Now, a University of Michigan study investigates one of the strategies to achieve this goal, which is to increase new vehicle sales to 50% electric
