Columbus, OH

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!. When it comes to solar and wind power generation, the old quip goes: “What are you gonna do when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow?” Energy storage and returning power to be used by neighbors has always been part of that plan, but like all good disinformation, it’s a simple half-truth that’s easy to repeat.

The Dark Side Of Reflecting Sunlight To Solar Farms At Night

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Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!. New Report Shows Coal Plants Earned $1 Billion for Running While Wind Was Available, Cheaper in MISO Territory. Adding to a growing field of research, the new report, The Consumer and Environmental Costs from...

New Report: Coal Plants Earned $1 Billion For Knocking Cheaper Midwest Wind Offline

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!. We are pleased to announce that we have just released a new dataset of decommissioned wind turbines that have been confirmed as dismantled. The decommissioned turbine dataset can be downloaded in Excel format from the LBNL webpage here. Variable definitions and related information are available in the USWTDB codebook, available at the same link.

USWTDB Announces New Decommissioned Turbine Dataset

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!. The Intertubes lit up this week with reports that the EV startup Rivian has already received more than 100,000 pre-orders for its new R2 mid-sized SUV, but that’s not the only news the company is eager to share. Earlier this week Rivian also took pains to point out that renewable energy is front and center in its plans to create a holistic zero emission driving experience for its customers.

Have Some Renewable Energy With Your Rivian R2 Pre-Order

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!. Mercedes-Benz put up a 3% stake in the EV battery cell manufacturer Farasis Energy all the way back in 2020, working the sustainability angle as well as performance. Now all that hard work is beginning to pay off. Farasis has just announced the results of an accelerated testing schedule, leading the company to claim that a battery pack deploying its cells will last 1 million miles, while ending up with 70% capacity after 15 years. Take that, haters.

Million-Mile EV Battery Bet Pays Off For Mercedes-Benz

Lancaster County, PA

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Fans of Frisco's Chicken were left reeling as the beloved Peruvian-style eatery announced the closure of all its locations in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The chain, known for its delicious food and strong community values, posted a heartfelt note on its doors, informing customers of the devastating news.

Favorite Chicken Chain Suddenly Closes All Stores, Heartfelt Message Found on Doors

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NASA scientists have just identified mysterious shapes flying above the Earth but, don’t worry, this doesn’t mean that aliens are about to strike.Using an imaging instrument called the Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD), the experts uncovered strange X and C shapes, which have been cropping up in surprising places at surprising times.The researchers found the structures dancing around the ionosphere – the area where Earth’s atmosphere meets space – and say that the discovery could help improve radio communications and space weather forecasts.The ionosphere – which sits around 50 to 400 miles (roughly 80 to 644 kilometres)...

NASA scientists discover strange structures hovering above Earth

Primary school geography paints such a neat picture of the world.It tells us, for example, that there are seven continents on Earth, but the truth is far more complex.Researchers are constantly encountering lost landmasses that constitute important pieces in the puzzle of our planet’s geological past.Now, a whole new continent has been found lurking beneath the icy waters of the northern Atlantic Ocean.The discovery was made around the Davis Strait, a large stretch of water located between Canada’s Baffin Island and Greenland.The strait was formed millions of years ago when the tectonic plates between the two islands shifted, reconfiguring the...

Scientists have just discovered a brand new continent

Cyprus, an island country in the Mediterranean, is renowned for its sparkling white-sand beaches and turquoise waters. But those beaches are at risk of disappearing within mere decades. What's happening?. Cyprus Mail reported on the alarming news, quoting Cypriot scientist Dr. Giorgos Zittis from the nonprofit research center the Cyprus...

Scientists issue warning after half of nation's beaches expected to vanish in next 50 years: 'These efforts can be stepped up'

Editor's note: This article was originally published on April 25, 2022. It has since been updated. 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 two decades, soaring from about 760 billion tons per year in the 1990s to more than 1.2 trillion tons per year in the 2010s. Meanwhile, a second, NASA-backed study on the Greenland ice sheet found that at least 74 major glaciers that terminate in deep, warming ocean waters are being severely undercut and weakened.

What would the Earth look like if all the ice melted? The answer is terrifying.

New York City, NY

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Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

Seas might seem endless but they have waterfalls, rivers, and gigantic blobs for long stretches beneath them which often go undetected. Scientists have found a massive blob in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean which stretches from the tip of Brazil to the Gulf of Guinea, near West Africa, reported Live Science. It is a water mass that has been discovered for the first time in the Atlantic. The researchers published this discovery in the journal, "Geophysical Research Letters" on October 28, 2023.

Scientists finally discover huge 'missing' blob of water in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!. There are different ways to show or simply notice that the US electric vehicle market is growing fast. Rapid EV sales growth, counting the EVs we see on the street as we drive to work or the store, how full EV charging stations are. Going further, Electrify America has shared some charging stats from 2023 that demonstrate rapid EV uptake — or, at least, rapid growth of EV charging on its network, but that really does imply the former as well.

Electrify America Shows Rapid Growth in the US Electric Car Market

The world's oceans are in hot water, and it's not just because of Earth's overheating. The world's oceans are confronting a "triple threat" of extreme heating, oxygen loss, and acidification. As reported by the Guardian, this alarming trend, driven by human activities such as pollution and deforestation, has escalated dramatically in recent decades.

New research uncovers troubling 'triple threat' facing the world's oceans: 'The impacts of this have already been seen and felt'

South Carolina State

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The mantis shrimp is one tough customer. Beautiful and deadly are two words you don’t typically use to describe shrimp, but the mantis shrimp is definitely in a class of its own; earning a reputation as the ‘savage boxer of the sea’ and one of the most fearsome creatures in the ocean. And, they're right at home here in South Carolina.

Savage Boxer of the Sea: The Deadly Beauty of Mantis Shrimp

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover inadvertently crushed a rock while exploring a sulfates-rich area — and revealed a treasure of glinting, yellow crystals. And according to the space agency, it's unlike anything the rover has come across so far. Instead of sulfur-based minerals, which have been discovered several times already in the area, the cracked-open rock turned out to be pure, elemental sulfur.

NASA Scientists Startled When Mars Rover Drives Over Rock, Cracking It and Revealing Glinting Crystals Within

Chicago, IL

Foodie in Chicago

Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

For years, astronomers have been using the extremely steady flashes of light emanating from pulsars, the highly magnetized remains of dead stars that spin like cosmic lighthouses, to keep time on an atomic level of accuracy and observe gravitational waves. But there are fleeting moments when these highly regular pulses...

Massive, Mysterious Objects Detected Floating Through Deep Space

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Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have put forward a new theory regarding the 5,200 mysterious craters on the seafloor off the coast of Big Sur, California. Knewz.com has learned that the collection of craters, known as the Sur Pockmark Field, covers an area almost the size of the city of Los […]

MYSTERY: Scientists Investigate Cause of 5,200 Craters Discovered off the Coast of California

Virginia State

Ronkonkoma, NY

The New York Post reveals that two men who died in a plane crash at MacArthur Airport were from Virginia. The men had been visiting friends in Long Island and were returning home when the tragedy occurred.

Life partners from Virginia have been identified as the victims of a New York plane crash

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Bonkers “Wall Of Floating Wind Turbines” Not So Bonkers After All

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Bonkers “Wall Of Floating Wind Turbines” Not So Bonkers After All

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