Tag: Renewable energy
How to have an all-renewable electric grid
David Timmons, University of Massachusetts Boston
The main solution to climate change is well known – stop burning fossil fuels. How to do this is...
Jamaica leads in Richard Branson-backed plan for a Caribbean climate revolution
Masaō Ashtine, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus and Tom Rogers, Coventry University
After hurricanes Irma and Maria tore through the Caribbean in 2017,...
What makes natural gas bottlenecks happen during extreme cold snaps
Sarah Ryan, Iowa State University
When temperatures in Minneapolis fell to 27 below zero during the January 2019 polar vortex, the Xcel Energy utility urged...
Utilities are starting to invest in big batteries instead of building...
Jeremiah Johnson, North Carolina State University and Joseph F. DeCarolis, North Carolina State University
Due to their decreasing costs, lithium-ion batteries now dominate a range...
What Green New Deal advocates can learn from the 2009 economic...
Joseph Aldy, Harvard Kennedy School
Congressional Democrats have introduced a “Green New Deal” proposal that calls for a 10-year national mobilization to curb climate change...
The public health benefits of adding offshore wind to the grid
Jonathan Buonocore, Harvard University
New plans to build two commercial offshore wind farms near the Massachusetts and Rhode Island coasts have sparked a lot of...
Why the offshore wind industry is about to take off
Matthew Lackner, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Erin Baker, University of Massachusetts Amherst
There are only five wind turbines operating in U.S. waters today. But...
Are public objections to wind farms overblown?
Jeremy Firestone, University of Delaware; Ben Hoen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Joseph Rand, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
While most surveys suggest that the public...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
