May 21, 2013
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NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission, a mission to observe a largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere that powers its dynamic million-degree outer atmosphere and drives the solar wind. In late June 2013, the Interface Region Imaging S… Continue reading
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Researchers have designed a low-cost, long-life battery that could enable solar and wind energy to become major suppliers to the electrical grid. Continue reading
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Solar and wind are growing fast – by 42% and 19% respectively during the past year – but coal has a much larger installed base, so even much lower growth represents a huge number of new dirty power plants that will pollute for decades to come. Continue reading
Share on FacebookMarch 28, 2013
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Researchers have developed a ground-breaking way to make new affordable and efficient catalysts for converting electricity into chemical energy. Their technology opens the door to homeowners and energy companies being able to easily store and reuse sol… Continue reading
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More and more electricity is being generated from intermittent sources of power, such as solar and wind energy. Powerful electric energy storage devices are necessary to level out corresponding irregularities in the power supply. Scientists have recent… Continue reading
Share on FacebookMarch 8, 2013
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Solar and wind power pose a challenge for the U.S. electrical grid, which lacks the capacity to store surplus clean electricity and deliver it on demand. Researchers are developing grid-scale storage batteries, but the fossil fuel required to build the… Continue reading
Share on FacebookFebruary 22, 2013
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The sun and its prodigious stream of solar particles, called the solar wind, can be particularly tricky to model since as the material streams to the outer reaches of the solar system it carries along its own magnetic fields. The magnetic forces add an… Continue reading
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While grid-scale liquid metal batteries might be a more exciting technology, good old pumped hydro storage is one of the ways we can store power from intermittent sources (like solar & wind) or shift supply around (from the night to peak use). Continue reading
February 19, 2013
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During a chance encounter with what appears to be an unusually strong blast of solar wind at Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft detected particles being accelerated to ultra-high energies. This is similar to the acceleration that takes place around dist… Continue reading
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Three NASA scientists teamed up to develop and demonstrate NASA’s first wide-field-of-view soft X-ray camera for studying “charge exchange,” a poorly understood phenomenon that occurs when the solar wind collides with Earth’s exosphere and neutral gas … Continue reading
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This unique wind power solution involves using the heat of the sun to create an artificial wind to power turbines. Continue reading
Share on FacebookJanuary 8, 2013
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The sun ejects a continuous flow of electrically charged particles and magnetic fields in the form of the solar wind — and this wind is hotter than it should be. A new study of data obtained by European Space Agency’s Cluster spacecraft may help expla… Continue reading
Share on FacebookJanuary 8, 2013
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An electric sail (ESAIL) produces propulsion power for a spacecraft by utilizing the solar wind. The sail features electrically charged long and thin metal tethers that interact with the solar wind. Using ultrasonic welding,engineers successfully produ… Continue reading
Share on FacebookFebruary 13, 2012
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Cai Steger, Energy Policy Analyst, New York, Center for Market Innovation
Today, the Obama Administration released its annual budget proposal, outlining spending priorities for the upcoming year. For supporters of renewable energy… Continue reading
July 3, 2011
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Cai Steger, Energy Policy Analyst, New York, Center for Market Innovation The recently released Google/McKinsey clean energy innovation study is a great way to lose a few hours (if, you know, wonky energy analyses are your thing). In it, Google s… Continue reading
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