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Why Millennials Can’t Bank On Clean Energy Jobs

by Community Manager on ‎10-29-2017 03:35 PM - last edited on ‎10-30-2018 07:30 PM by

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job expected to see the most growth in terms of hiring over the next nine years is an energy-related..According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job expected to see the most growth in terms of hiring over the next nine years is an energy-related..
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Melting Glaciers

by Community Manager ‎12-19-2013 01:52 PM - edited ‎12-19-2013 02:15 PM

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Most of the current models of glacial ice melting (and contribution to sea level rise) focus on ice melting and less than they need to on the process of glaciers falling apart in larger chunks such as ice bergs. Also, current understanding of glacial ice melting due to global warming indicates that the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is more vulnerable to melting over coming decades or centuries than is the Eastern Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS). New research from two different teams seems to provide a major corrective to these assumptions.

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The Real Green Light Bulb

by Community Manager on ‎12-19-2013 01:48 PM - last edited on ‎09-25-2014 11:52 AM by

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As the Canadian comment process finishes, as an American incandescent ban largely finishes on January 1, and as the EU review process also seems to have concluded in its first phase, some concluding remarks to the last series of posts seems apt.

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The Solar Opportunity

by ‎12-19-2013 01:33 PM - edited ‎02-17-2015 10:29 PM

 

 

SolarPanels.jpgThe coming of solar grid parity offers an opportunity for millions of Americans to go solar affordably. But it also means a potential transformation, a democratization of an electricity system long dominated by centrally-controlled utilities and centralized ownership and production of electricity. When solar can undercut grid electricity prices, it may also undercut this 20th century system of centralized ownership, bringing economic sunshine and self-reliance to communities along with solar electricity.

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