The maintenance required for renewable tech like windfarms can harm the environment. Robots are helping solve that.
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Those who talk down an independent Scotland’s prospects are not factoring in one of its biggest natural resources.
The transition to 100% renewable energy will require a lot of land – mostly in regional Australia. This presents big challenges, and opportunities, for the farming sector.
The best way to reduce the threat to eagles is to locate turbines away from areas that are most often used by the birds.
Black turbine blades seem to reduce bird collisions, but it’s important to know why.
A clean energy transition is vital in Australia, but big projects like Forest Wind must take local communities with them.
Investing billions in refurbishing nuclear generating stations doesn’t make economic sense as the cost of renewables fall dramatically.
Nuclear power isn’t needed to meet Ontario’s electricity needs. And the absence of nuclear power won’t have any impact on emissions in Ontario’s energy sector.
A proposal for 270m tall wind turbines on Robbins Island has ruffled some feathers – but here’s why towering turbines are here to stay.
Research has found that wind turbines decrease property values in Ontario, but only when the community is opposed to their presence.
Robins are a much loved Christmas icon, but wind turbines installed in their habitat are affecting their song, with worrying consequences.
A new study claims that wind turbines kill enough birds of prey that they are effectively an ‘apex predator’.
There are some good explanations for the mismatch between regional support for climate action and the areas where renewable energy is making the biggest inroads.
Scientists have modelled the effects of huge hypothetical energy projects in the desert.
Our energy supply underpins everything we do – so why is it exempt from the fair trade arguments used for food and clothing?
One of America’s original manufacturing giants is scrambling to control how customers digitise its products.
Generating less electricity with fossil fuels could help save lives.
Solar power technology has huge potential for Africa. But there are some barriers.
Large-scale solar and wind tend to push energy prices down, which sounds great as a consumer. But that makes keeping the grid in constant balance harder.
Several states, including Massachusetts and Rhode Island, have developed ambitious renewable energy targets that hinge in large part on getting their power from turbines stationed in the water.
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University
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Professor, Cyber Physical Systems, University of Glasgow
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Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia
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Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering and Faculty Director of The Energy Transition Institute, UMass Amherst
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Senior Research Fellow in Renewable Energy, Australian National University
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Senior Project Manager, Ford School's Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP); Project Manager, National Surveys on Energy and Environment (NSEE), University of Michigan
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Professor, School of Marine Science and Policy, University of Delaware
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Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo
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Research Chair, Indigenous Approaches to Environmental Management, Keele University
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Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Professor Spatial Transformation, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen