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Crews Race to Restore Power After Hurricane Matthew
2016-10-12 15:59:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Hurricane Matthew has since left the U.S. Southeast Coast, but power and tree crews are still at work finishing up the initial power restoration job, even as flooding threatens progress in some areas. read more
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Kentucky race may alter Clean Power Plan fortunes
2015-05-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: For many supporters of the Obama administration's landmark proposal to cut greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants, Kentucky is an example of the plan's viability. Even though the state is a major producer and consumer of coal, Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear's administration thinks it can develop a plan to comply with U.S. EPA's proposed mandates. But the state's posture is likely to change after this year's gubernatorial election. Every major candidate in today's gubernatorial primary...
Ready, Set, Power UpCan U.S. Win Race to Create a Superbattery?
2015-02-15 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Ever since the Italian count Alessandro Volta invented the first electric battery in 1799, scientists have sought to ramp up its performance. Even though we have sent a robot to Mars and split the atom, it has proved surprisingly difficult. Now a global race is on to create a battery powerful enough to run an electric car 300 miles (483 kilometers) on one charge. The prize is a market worth as much as $300 billion annually. From his office in Washington, D.C., Steve Levine, author of The Powerhouse:...
Wind Power Developers Race Clock to Secure Subsidy
2013-12-26 02:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: As the rest of the world prepares to toast the new year, the wind industry is hard at work on its own year-end tradition, rushing to make sure projects qualify for an important subsidy before it is set to vanish at the stroke of midnight on Tuesday. Developers are signing deals, ordering equipment and lurching ahead with construction starts to qualify for a tax credit that is worth 2.3 cents a kilowatt-hour for the first 10 years of production. This month, giant turbine-makers like Vestas and Siemens...
Race: The Power of an Illusion
2013-01-01 00:24:13| PortlandOnline
California Newsreels 3-part documentary about race in society, science, and history.
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