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Solar for New York schools
8+ hour, 11+ min ago (266+ words) WAMC Solar for New York schools The Schoharie Central School District, located in the heart of New York’s Mohawk Valley, recently transformed a former hayfield into a one-acre solar installation. The system is rated at 749 kilowatts of power. The project…...
Vehicle-to-Grid and Vehicle-to-Home
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (349+ words) Electric cars store large amounts of energy in their battery banks that is used to drive the car. But in principle, parked electric cars could be used as mobile energy storage networks. The energy in cars could be given back…...
Heat pumps on the rise
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (282+ words) Heat pumps are highly efficient all-in-one heating and cooling systems. Ordinary furnaces burn fuel to produce heat. Heat pumps move existing heat from one place to another using electricity and refrigerant. A heat pump can act as heater in the…...
Catskills’ largest proposed solar project draws environmental and ethical concerns
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (1319+ words) The solar developer, RWE, has filed its application with New York state to build a 200-megawatt solar energy and 100-megawatt battery energy storage facility in Sullivan County. If approved, the project would be the largest permitted utility-scale solar project in…...
Lithium colonialism
2+ week, 1+ day ago (193+ words) According to a recent study, socially and economically vulnerable communities are bearing the brunt of the lithium boom. Nearly two-thirds of lithium projects are located in vulnerable counties: tribal lands and places where people in poverty and people of color…...
Taxing electric cars
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (257+ words) WAMC Congress is considering a bill that would establish an annual fee to be paid by owners of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid cars. The purpose is to have owners of these vehicles pay their fair share of the cost…...
Giant solar projects
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (333+ words) The largest electric power plant in the world is the Three Gorges Dam in China, that has a capacity of 22.5 gigawatts. The largest in the US is also a hydroelectric plant: the Grand Coulee Dam that has a capacity of…...
Electric cars in the rest of the world
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (304+ words) The Environmental Protection Agency – whose name is now become rather ironic – has proposed deregulatory actions to delay compliance deadlines for emissions standards. These regulations that were designed to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, and hydrocarbons from…...
A solar geoengineering company
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (228+ words) A company developing solar geoengineering – blocking radiation from the sun to cool the planet – recently revealed its recipe for the particles that would be released into the atmosphere. Stardust Solutions, founded in 2023, has received $75 million from investors and has applied…...
A boom in used electric cars
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (186+ words) Americans still buy far more new EVs than used ones, but the gap is beginning to close. Used EV sales jumped by 34% in 2025 compared with the prior year. EVs made up about a tenth of new vehicle sales in the…...