The emergence of renewable energy sources and the decarbonisation of the grid will require new energy storage facilities in the coming years to provide flexible energy and capacity. In addition to increasing shares of solar and wind power in the electricity mix, the US will see increased installation of energy …
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Amid a heat wave in the West, California’s largest solar state, it is struggling with power problems and keeping its electricity grid stable as demand increases. And in the coming sustainable future, those power outages could just be a sign of things to come. Energy consumers in California were warned …
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Not all glaciations are equally brutal. In the most extreme glaciation events known to science, ice spreads from Earth’s polar regions and spreads to lower latitudes, literally reshaping the face of the planet. Evidence of such epic transitions can be found in the geological record, most recently in formidable glaciations …
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It is common knowledge that the Sun is the center of the Solar System. Around him, planets orbit, along with a thick asteroid belt, a few meteor fields, and a handful of far distant comets. But that is not the whole story. “Instead, everything orbits around the center of mass …
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In the early days of the Solar System, baby Earth may have taken much less time to form than we previously thought. According to an analysis conducted in February 2020, there is evidence that most of the Earth took only 5 million years to come together, several times longer than …
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