Today’s Solutions: December 11, 2024

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New Belgium Brewing Co. hopes you hate the taste of their new ale

New Belgium Brewing Co. is making strong statements about climate change that other businesses may find hard to swallow—perhaps just as hard to swallow as their new, limited-edition beer, Torched Earth Ale. New Belgium brewed Torched Earth Ale from drought-resistant grains, dandelion weeds, and Read More...

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New blade design has the potential to reduce wind energy costs

As an increasing amount of evidence suggests, the world could be powered entirely by renewables a soon as 2050. But to make sure that happens, we need to continue to develop new, innovative designs that will streamline the transition to clean energy. That’s exactly what a team of scientists in Read More...

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Re-Wind wants to build things using old wind turbine blades

While a rapidly growing wind energy industry is a positive sign for our transition toward carbon-free energy sources, there is a disadvantage to all this growth: more waste. The blades on wind turbines only have a lifespan of about 20 years, so older decommissioned wind turbine blades from early Read More...

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Kite-like device harnesses the wind to generate renewable energy

When you think about wind power, chances are the first thing that comes to mind are the giant wind turbines that are among the key harbingers of the green energy transition. It turns out, however, that there are also other ingenious ways we can harness wind power. A German startup, for instance, Read More...

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How black paint can drastically reduce bird deaths at wind farms

Politicians who lobby against the renewable energy industry often use the death toll of birds at wind farms as a way to argue against wind energy. But apparently, there’s a simple solution to reduce the number of deaths that happen at the blades of wind turbines: black paint. According to a Read More...

Texans will catch the first gl

Texans will catch the first glimpse of residential wind power this July 4th

What if you could produce wind energy from the comfort of your backyard? Well, that might soon be possible thanks to a new product made by Iceland renewable wind power company IceWind. In the town of Port Aransas Beach, Texas, IceWind’s Texas-based investor will show off a demo of the tiny Read More...

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North Dakota’s largest power station is ditching coal for wind energy

Coal energy can’t seem to catch a break these days. In the past month, we’ve shared stories about both Sweden and Austria closing the last of their coal-fired power plants. All the while, the US has seen renewables overtake coal as America’s leading power source for a record-breaking 40 days Read More...

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Global wind energy capacity hits all time high; it grew by a fifth last year

The past year was a good one for renewables as the world’s wind power capacity grew by almost a fifth in 2019, boosted by a boom of wind farms in China and the US. The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) found that wind power capacity grew by 60.4 gigawatts, or 19 percent, compared with 2018, in Read More...

Denmark got a record-breaking

Denmark got a record-breaking 47% of its electricity from wind power in 2019

Even if wind energy can’t provide power 100 percent of the time, it can still provide a bulk of the energy needed annually to power a country. A testament to that is the nordic country of Denmark, which hit a huge renewable energy milestone in 2019 as nearly half of its electricity came from wind Read More...

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Google is predicting wind patterns a day in advance so grids can rely on it more

Wind power has become increasingly popular, but its success is limited by the fact that wind comes and goes as it pleases, making it hard for power grids to count on the renewable energy and less likely to fully embrace it. While we can't control the wind, Google has an idea for the next best Read More...