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Before someone gets snarky, please be aware that Las Vegas is a world leader in recycling and reusing water. Rainfall is captured in flood basins, goes through water purification and wetlands, then flows back into Lake Mead to be reused.…

Solar PV is half the price of coal and gas in many countries. This trend will accelerate. Unsubsidized solar will become the dominant and cheapest form of power worldwide. Interestingly, solar is more expensive in dinosaur countries like ours where…

MidAmerican Energy is replacing motors and blades in hundreds of wind turbines in Iowa. They say the upgraded turbines will last 20-30 years and will generate substantially more power. When the four year process is completed, their customers will get…

Wind turbines in Ireland will store power in batteries to be released when needed. The turbines and batteries are from GE. Microsoft has agreed to buy 15 years worth of power for use by its data centers. This is a…

Stand-alone biomass plants that create electricity from sawdust, logging and lumbering scrap, and other plant waste can have a difficult time being profitable. However, in Maine and other areas, the logging industry depends on selling their scrap to biomass plants…