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Spaceflight is like backpacking. If you can’t restock supplies like food and water along the way, how far you can travel is limited by how much you can carry. And in space, you also have to worry about having enough fuel for your spacecraft and breathable air for your crew.
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http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/07/using-sunlight-to-make-spaceship-fuel-and-breathable-air
Initially, trains in the Netherlands were set to run entirely on renewable energy by 2018.
However, it seems officials have been able to beat that goal by an entire year. As of the first of January this year, all public transport trains are being powered by renewable energy, namely from wind power.
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“Stephanie Gutierrez, co-founder of Hope Nation LLC, explores hows effective community wealth building in Native communities depends on an active process of cultural translation.”…
Read the entire article here: https://democracycollaborative.org/community-wealth-building-a-lakota-translation
As part of a strategic alliance, BASF and Norilsk Nickel aim to meet growing demand for battery materials for electric vehicles.
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https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/10/23/basf-to-build-battery-material-factory-in-finland/
The 30 MW/30 MWh Ballarat Battery Energy Storage System, the first big battery brought online in the state of Victoria, has been officially commissioned by the Victorian Labor government, as the first of the two grid-scale batteries that will provide support to the state’s grid by the start of this summer Down Under.
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https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/10/24/australia-unveils-another-big-battery/
Swedish battery supplier Northvolt has announced plans for a manufacturing plant in Gdansk, Poland. The company says that the plant will have an initial capacity of 10,000 battery modules per year and will begin production in 2019.
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https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/10/24/northvolt-to-open-battery-assembly-plant-in-poland/
IREC has released its National Shared Renewables Scorecard to give insight into various states programs.
Read more here:
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2018/10/30/distributing-knowledge-on-distributed-community-solar-energy/
Duke Energy has filed for lessor certification in North Carolina, in hopes to start leasing solar to the state’s largest nonresidential customers.
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This latest edition of Nico Johnson’s SunCast podcast brings you one of the most interesting and effective communicators in clean energy, Lisa Ann Pinkerton.
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New research from institutes at the London School of Economics has found a significant gap between what countries declared they would be doing in compliance with the Paris Agreement, and what they have translated into national law three years later. As officials from around the world will flock to Poland next month to negotiate the implementation pathway of the Paris Agreement, this and other new studies draw a dark picture of current performance.
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https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/10/29/just-16-countries-on-track-for-climate-goals/
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