Soon Tesla owners will be able to check solar roof and powerwall status, as well as manage settings via an in-car app. Elon musk went on a bit of a Tweetstorm again recently, and out of it came some new information. Being that Musk believes that eventually most customers will also go solar, and invest
Renault has launched a smart energy system, which looks to make use of second-life EV batteries for domestic and commercial energy storage. Partnering with Powervault, the system will undergo trials with customers who already have solar panels installed. A total of 50 units will be involved in the trial, which will involve eligible M&S Energy
The end of the Oil Age is within sight. Everyone who follows the news should be able to see this by now, although people have vastly different ideas about the timeline. Consultancies, investment analysts and think tanks around the world produce a constant stream of predictions about the future impact of new technologies on the
Simple calculation[s] as to the impact on electricity demand as we progressively switch over to electric cars. National Grid estimates up to 7% increase in electricity demand by 2040 for EVs There are around 30 million cars on the road today [1]. National Grid’s Future Energy Scenarios 2016 presents 4 scenarios – in the most
The sound made by 100 tonnes of steel and carbon fibre rotating 400 feet overhead is surprisingly understated. Each whoosh of the 260 foot blades spans an area the size of the London Eye and generates enough electricity to power the average British home for 24 hours. There are 32 of these 8MW turbines in
AS MUCH as half the Great Barrier Reef may have died in the back-to-back bleachings over the past two years. But the head of the authority in charge of the reef says the actual extent of damage is tricky to calculate because some parts are growing well. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority believes
[The NY Times] went to Antarctica to understand how changes to its vast ice sheet might affect the world. Ice sheets flow downhill, seemingly in slow motion. Mountains funnel the ice into glaciers. And ice flowing from the land into the sea can form a floating ice shelf. Glaciers in certain areas have been undercut
No seeds were lost but the ability of the rock vault to provide failsafe protection against all disasters is now threatened by climate change It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in
Cleaner Than Ever: Latest Numbers Show Electric Vehicle Advantage Is Growing
OAKLAND, CA (May 31, 2017)—Everywhere in the US, driving electric is cleaner than driving a typical gasoline-powered car. That’s truer now than ever before, and the advantage electric vehicles have over comparable gasoline cars is only continuing to increase. New analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) shows that in 70 percent of the
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