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Joshua Tree National Park Announces Closure After Trees Destroyed Amid Shutdown
Maintenance and sanitation problems also reported 18 days after government shutdown furloughed the vast majority of park staff. Volunteers helping tourists at the Joshua Tree National Park in California. A day after this story was published, National Park Service announced…
Hydrogen Train on Track for 2022 Arrival in UK
Alstom and Eversholt Rail have unveiled the design of their new gas-powered train, which has been codenamed ‘Breeze’ Alstom and Eversholt Rail have unveiled the design of their new hydrogen-powered passenger train. The train, codenamed ‘Breeze’, will be a conversion of…
Waste-To-Energy Test Plant Takes out the Trash in Rio
The test facility produces enough biogas each month to power a fleet of 1,000 cars. Rio de Janeiro is taking out the trash with a new pilot waste-to-energy plant. The City Company of Urban Cleaning (Comlurb) has built a test facility capable…
Dubai Is Busy Embracing Solar Energy
If there’s one resource that Dubai has in abundance, it’s sunshine. Not surprisingly, the city, set in a sun-drenched desert, has set out to exploit that inexhaustible resource for clean energy generation. The United Arab Emirates, to which Dubai belongs,…
World’s Largest Solar + Battery Plant Unveiled in Hawaii
Hawaii has a new, game-changing tool in its renewable energy arsenal. Power producer AES Corporation and the not-for-profit Kaua’i island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) unveiled what’s claimed to be the world’s largest solar-plus-storage peaker on the island of Kauai on Tuesday, the Lāwa’i Solar and Energy Storage Project. This is…
Uganda Celebrates Completion of 24MW Solar Farm
The $25 million Kabulasoke Solar Power Park has completed vital critical commissioning tests. Uganda is celebrating the completion of a new 24MW solar farm in the south of the sub-Saharan nation. The $25 million (£19.6m) Kabulasoke Solar Power Park, which has…
U.S. Carbon Emissions Spiked 3.4% in 2018, Second-Largest Increase Since 1996
Carbon emissions in the U.S. experienced a sharp upswing in 2018, despite a record number of coal-fired power plant closings, according to new data. An analysis released by the research firm Rhodium Group Tuesday shows that emissions rose by 3.4 percent last year—the…