Electric cars could reach cost parity with conventional cars by next year

Are you eager to get your hands on a new electric vehicle, but the price is too steep? You’re in luck – electric cars will likely reach cost parity with vehicles that have internal combustion engines by next year, and electric vehicles could be cheaper that gas by as soon as 2025, according to a new report by USB. The...

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Do Green Spaces Have to Gobble Up a Ton of Energy?

The U.S. Green Building Council reports that green LEED-certified buildings consume 25% less energy. While this is a vast improvement over traditional structures, it is still excessive, considering the initial construction cost and maintenance. For LEED-certified buildings to be a worthwhile investment, they need to be more energy...

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COP-21, World Renewable Energy, and World Trade

This article describes five major items regarding the adequacy of COP-21 requirements: a survey of historic temperatures of the past 420,000 years; the status of the world renewable energy; the impact of COP-21 CO2 emission reduction measures on the US economy; and the US leaving COP-21. MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy...

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China unveils train that travels on ‘virtual tracks’

City public transportation systems typically rely on a mix of trains and buses. But what if the two could be combined? Chinese company CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive recently debuted a trackless train that could ease traffic and emissions in urban centers. The Autonomous Rail Transit (ART) uses sensors...

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New ultrathin material for splitting water could make hydrogen production cheaper

UNSW Sydney chemists have invented a new, cheap catalyst for splitting water with an electrical current to efficiently produce clean hydrogen fuel. The technology is based on the creation of ultrathin slices of porous metal-organic complex materials coated onto a foam electrode, which the researchers have unexpectedly shown is highly conductive of electricity and active for splitting water. "Splitting water usually requires...

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Vivint Solar Secures New $100 Million Financing For Residential Solar Deployment

Vivint Solar, a well-known name in the US solar market for its expanding market penetration and perpetual financial struggles, has landed another round of financing, securing $100 million in new tax equity commitments from two repeat investors for the development of 70 megawatts of residential solar energy systems. The US residential solar provider primarily makes the news for one of two reasons — either it is coming...

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Utility CEO Says Paris Pullout Changes Nothing, Clean Energy Still The Future

A big part of alleged president Donald Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate accords was a desire to continue sucking up to the disaffected coal miners in America’s Rust Belt. But the chief executive of American Electric Power, which produces more electricity from burning coal than any other utility company in the US,...

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