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  • California Is Showing How a Big State Can Power Itself Without Fossil Fuels

    June 27, 2024 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    The California-based startup Magrathea Metals is producing magnesium with renewable energy to make the process less expensive and material-intensive. The company aims to make the more environment-friendly metal competitive with steel and aluminum.

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  • Tidal kites: New technology harnessing ocean energy

    June 25, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Faroe Islands

    The renewable energy technology company Minesto developed tidal kites that generate electricity from ocean tides. The machines are attached to the seabed and pushed through the water in a figure 8 pattern. The movement spins a turbine that generates electricity.

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  • The Smart, Cheap Fix for Slow, Dumb Traffic Lights

    June 07, 2024 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Google’s Green Light project uses data from internet-connected vehicles and navigation apps to adjust the timing of traffic lights to be more responsive to real-world traffic patterns. The project is already in operation in several cities — from Hamburg to Seattle — and data in those cities suggest the system yields a 30% decrease in stop-and-go traffic at intersections.

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  • 'Valuable and largely overlooked': Interest in virtual power plants grows

    April 07, 2024 |

    Utah News Dispatch |

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    Response Location: United States

    Utility companies across the United States are using virtual power plants to meet electricity demand, access backup power, and lower the electric bills of participants. To make these power plants work, the utilities use energy from the battery storage systems of customers who have home solar arrays.

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  • Light at the End of the Tunnel

    March 26, 2024 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    Communities in the United States are slowly replacing small culverts that alter the flow of streams and block the paths of migratory fish species with wider culverts and bridges, allowing the ecosystems to recover.

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  • Wildlife Crossings Can Mend a Landscape

    February 21, 2024 |

    Sierra Club |

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    Response Location: Netherlands

    The Netherlands built nearly 3,000 wildlife crossings over and under roads, railways, and waterways to reduce habitat fragmentation, allowing wildlife to roam freely without becoming roadkill.

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  • How communities worldwide are working to solve the water crisis

    February 02, 2024 |

    WBUR |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Communities around the world are developing innovative technological solutions to the growing water crisis. In California, for example, the Orange County Water District runs a wastewater recycling plant that purifies the water enough to be released back into the underground aquifer that supplies drinking water.

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  • Lab 4.0: Transformando la formación de ingenieros hacia la Revolución Tecnológica

    January 15, 2024 |

    La Tercera |

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    Response Location: Chile

    El Laboratorio 4.0 incorpora tecnologías avanzadas como la inteligencia artificial, la realidad virtual y la Internet de las cosas (IoT) para aumentar la educación de futuros ingenieros con el aprendizaje interactivo y la resolución de problemas. Los estudiantes del Laboratorio 4.0 se gradúan con mejores posibilidades de conseguir empleo.

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  • Tidal power: What's holding it back?

    January 14, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: South Korea

    Researchers in South Korea and Ireland are harnessing the power from the up, down, and side-to-side motions of ocean tides as a source of renewable energy.

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  • Las energías renovables compartidas que dinamizan el entorno rural

    December 18, 2023 |

    Revista Haz |

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    Response Location: Spain, Castile and León

    En 2018 nació la primera comunidad energética rural de España. La iniciativa ahora se está expandiendo a otros municipios que no solo busca el ahorro de costes energéticos, sino también revitalizar los pueblos y luchar contra la despoblación.

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