Glass Wings Blog: Power

A Power Grid Long Enough to Reach the Sun Is Key to the Climate Fight
“Absolutely world leading:” Why Australia is leading the charge away from baseload power
Affordable nuclear? Dutton’s plan would add nearly $1,000 a year to the power bill of a family of four
Affordable Solar Power is Increasing Electricity Access for Malawi’s Households
Analysis: Solar surge will send coal power tumbling by 2030, IEA data reveals
Another US funding cut threatens human rights in North Korea - and hands more power to a dictator
As the ‘digital oligarchy’ grows in power, NZ will struggle to regulate its global reach and influence
Australians blame wind, solar for high power bills as media campaigns take hold
Australia’s power and gas companies want Coalition to retain Labor’s 2030 climate target
Austria, Denmark, Lithuania: Which EU countries have committed to decarbonise power by 2035?
Barcelona Is Turning Subway Trains Into Power Stations
Baseload power generators not needed to guarantee supply, say science and engineering academies
Big batteries to shore up power in 20 Victorian tourist towns
Bright Green Futures Ep 18: The Power of Hope
Building nuclear power plants in Australia could cost double CSIRO predictions, energy experts warn
California Is Showing How a Big State Can Power Itself Without Fossil Fuels
Can wind propulsion technology really help power modern ships?
Canola oil producer switches on 2.8 MW solar farm to power its crushing plant entirely with PV
The charity shop fashion tastemaker on preloved’s stylish power
China flexes its media muscle in Africa – encouraging positive headlines as part of a soft power agenda
China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week
China's self-developed airship harvests wind power at record height
Clean-up of Indian coal-fired power plants ‘could have saved 720,000 lives’
Coalition claims of a nuclear power renaissance in UK further expose its shameless policy con
The Coalition wants nuclear power. Could it work – or would it be an economic and logistical disaster?
Coalition’s Canavan forgets he’s backing nuclear, calls for new coal power as election looms
Companies turn obsolete satellite antennas in Swiss Alps into highly efficient power sources: 'Ideal as solar energy systems'
Could a Landfill Power Your Home?
Couple hand building hemp house in Victoria in pursuit of tranquillity and cheaper power bills
Court Rulings Give States New Power to Protect Groundwater
CSIRO spin-off raises record amount to fund solar heat and power tech, get industry off gas
Cuba’s power grid collapse reveals the depth of the country’s economic crisis
The Curative Power of Quieter Cities
‘The day it goes wrong? We won’t know about it … ’: life next door to a nuclear power station
Daytime wholesale power prices are heading to zero – isn’t that good news?
Dealer lecturing addicts? Australia backs coal power ban but continues to sell the stuff
"The Dispossessed" at 50: Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘anarchist utopia’ was an anguished response to war. Its political power endures
Do artists have a duty to speak truth to power? Jordan Prosser’s "Big Time" believes the future is ours to make
Does the Coalition’s case for nuclear power stack up? We factcheck seven key claims
Dutton wants a ‘mature debate’ about nuclear power. By the time we’ve had one, new plants will be too late to replace coal
Dutton’s dumping of climate target would be a disaster for power prices, families and business
EcoFlow’s Power Hat is a floppy, phone-charging solar panel for your noggin
Eraring deal signals death of baseload power in Australia, and Dutton’s nuclear fantasy
EV owners turn to their batteries on wheels to power homes amid Alfred blackouts
Floating solar project converts former gravel pit into 20 MW power generating pond
Floating solar tech that harvests clean power and water heads to Australia under new deal
Flour power: the campaign to get real bread to more people
Flower power: lavender oil for longer-lasting sodium-sulfur batteries
From waste to power: how floating solar panels on wastewater ponds could help solve NZ’s electricity security crisis
Germany may take another 50 years to find final repository for waste from shuttered nuclear power
Getting fresh water from renewable power
Gila River Indian Community turns on power for first ever solar-over-canal project
Global status report highlights parlous state of nuclear power sector
Great News for Clean Power and Storage
Green power: young environmentalists look to shake up Panama’s politics
Hurricane forecast points to a dangerous 2024 Atlantic season, with La Niña and a persistently warm ocean teaming up to power fierce storms
In a first, a solar microgrid will directly power an industrial plant
In Kyrgyzstan, creeping authoritarianism rubs up against proud tradition of people power
‘Incredible Things Are Possible’: The Power and Potential of New York’s Public Spaces
'Indoor solar power' could replace disposable batteries and charger cables with photovoltaic strips
Is it a cost-of-living election or a nuclear power election? Peter Dutton can’t have it both ways
It’s time to give Australian courts the power to break up big firms that behave badly
‘Kamala IS brat’: how the power of pop music has influenced 60 years of US elections
The Kevin Kelly interview: The power of “radical optimism”
Labour’s ‘rooftop revolution’ to deliver solar power to millions of UK homes
Last coal power station in UK shuts down, brings coal era to end after 143 years
“Last ditch:” Australia’s richest woman takes on local environment laws in Canada coal power play
Malaria vaccine rollout shines light on value of renewable power
Manufacturing crisis: the challenge of Trump 2.0’s ‘power in chaos’ for other democracies
Megawatt charging stations able to re-power electric trucks within regulatory rest breaks
More coal and gas, less renewables: what a nuclear power plan for Australia would really mean
Most of the world has long feared US power. Now its allies do too.
The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with Political Scientist Erica Chenoweth
The new car batteries that could power the electric vehicle revolution
New study shows building code reform is crucial to cutting power bills
No power bill for 10 years for wool mill that switched to renewables
No room for nuclear power, unless the Coalition switches off your solar
No, you’re not that good at detecting fake videos – 2 misinformation experts explain why and how you can develop the power to resist these deceptions
Nuclear power in Australia is a really bad idea. The ban ensures that is all it is
Nuclear power makes no sense for Australia – but it’s a useful diversion from real climate action
Nuclear power plan puts thousands of farms in “radiation alert zone”
Nuclear power struggling to maintain current level of stagnation, let alone achieve any growth
NZ’s big chill was an early winter warning: power should be subsidised for struggling households
Our beef with ‘Big Meat’: the power perpetuating Australia’s live export trade is at play elsewhere
People power: seven grassroots conservationists who are ‘saving the world’
Peter Dutton says nuclear power plants “burn energy.” No they don’t
Peter Dutton’s “always on” nuclear power is about as reliable as wind and solar – during a renewables drought
Petroleum drilling technology is now making carbon-free power
Physicist MV Ramana on the problem with nuclear power
Planes, trains and monster diggers: The vehicles pushing the limits of electric power
Political power in Australia is still overwhelmingly male. But beneath the despair, there’s reason for hope
Power cuts in Ukraine after Russia’s biggest drone attack yet
Power from flower: Albanian farm plants suck EV battery metal from soil
Power makers: First Nations leaders take intensive renewable energy training course
The Power of Cozy Management Simulation Games
‘Power of music’: steel pan bands foster joy and resilience at Trinidad and Tobago carnival
Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions. Nobody knows what to do about it
Pristine rainforest, 'dirty' power: The diesel vs solar energy debate raging inside the Daintree
Putin has no successor, no living rivals and no retirement plan – why his eventual death will set off a vicious power struggle
Remarkable photos expose folly of the location of Snowy’s Hunter gas power plant
Russia targets Ukraine’s power grid in biggest missile strike in months
The Secret Power Plants Revolutionising Zero-Carbon Heating and Cooling in Cities!
Solar above, batteries below: here’s how warehouses and shopping centres could produce 25% of Australia’s power
Solar bus shelters deliver clean power for electric transport
Solar charts record growth to overtake coal in EU power mix, send fossil fuels to 40-year low
Solar doesn’t need a toxic “friendship” with nuclear power
Solar power is booming in Brazil. Can it be a boom for all?
Solar power is turning the tide on energy inequality in the Amazon
Solar power poised for even greater breakthroughs
Solar power: Printed flexible solar achieves efficiency record
Solar Power’s Giants Are Providing More Energy Than Big Oil
Solar-leader Chile got 63% of its power from renewables in 2023
Stories Over Tea: The Power of Reminiscence Therapy
Tilling the Floodplain: How Farmers Embrace the Power of Floods
Too good to be missed: An entire school electric bus fleet is sending power the grid
UK Labour to double onshore wind, triple solar power, and quadruple offshore wind by 2030
Ukraine receives nearly 6,000 solar panels to power hospitals
Universal basic income: ‘The power to say no and the freedom to say yes’
US power grid added battery equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors in past four years
Vertical, all-black solar system seeks to power through the winter snow
Victoria networks want to be first to own and install EV kerbside chargers on their power poles
“We’re making history:” Ørsted shuts last coal-fired heat and power plant
What ancient farmers can really teach us about adapting to climate change – and how political power influences success or failure
What lies beneath: the growing threat to the hidden network of cables that power the internet
When it comes to power, solar is about to leave nuclear and everything else in the shade
Will We Ever Get Fusion Power?
Wind and solar power half the cost of coal and gas, one-third the cost of nuclear, says Lazard
With a million home batteries, we could build far fewer power lines. We just need the right incentives
World First! THIS Is How You Power Electric Flight!
The world’s largest battery electric ferry is being built in Australia: What will power it?
‘You have power, or you don’t:’ Ukraine’s energy crisis drives power decentralization
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