August 9th, 2020 by Tina Casey Coal power plants in the US have been retiring at an average clip of 10 gigawatts per year as the clean energy transition takes hold. That may sound impressive, but it’s not nearly quick enough, considering that climate change is already buffeting the Earth. The pace has to pick
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Waymo engineer Paul Roales says he’s doubling down on local involvement in Silicon Valley’s Mountain View, where many large tech companies are headquartered. Paul Roales When Waymo engineer Paul Roales got word that he and employees from sister company Google would be working from home until the summer of 2021, his first reaction wasn’t to
A Lebanese government minister has quit following the devastating explosion in Beirut that killed more than 150 people, as protesters called for a sustained uprising to topple the country’s leaders. Information minister Manal Abdel-Samad said she was resigning “given the magnitude of the catastrophe” and “in response to the public will for change”. Another minister
Labour MP Dawn Butler has told Sky News she believes she was the victim of racial profiling after the car she was in was stopped by police. The former shadow equalities minister filmed the incident, which happened in the London borough of Hackney on Sunday afternoon. She said police officers stopped her “black male friend”
Simon Cowell is recovering from surgery after breaking his back while testing his new electric bicycle. The entertainment mogul had been at his home in California when he broke his back in a number of places, according to a representative. They added that Cowell was “doing fine” after the six-hour procedure and is still under
Simon Cowell has broken his back while testing his new electric bicycle at his home in California. The music mogul, 60, was trying out the bike in the courtyard of his Malibu home when he fell off. A spokesperson for Cowell said he was due to have surgery on Saturday evening. He is currently under
12:06 AM ET During the final moments of the first five-minute quarter of the Milwaukee Bucks’ first five-on-five scrimmage since the NBA’s shutdown in March, Giannis Antetokounmpo’s team found itself down a bucket. When a long miss by the opposing team caromed off the rim and floated toward the baseline, Antetokounmpo launched himself with both
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A massive power outage was reported Friday morning in the upper part of Manhattan, knocking out not only lights but also cellphone service. A Con Edison spokesperson tells NBC it is investigating the widespread outages across Harlem, Central Park and Lenox Hill. At one point it was pitch black as far as eyes could see
[embedded content] Published on August 8th, 2020 | by Chanan Bos This is the 20th broadcast of CleanTechnica’s weekly news show. We now also have a Patreon page! Contribute if you appreciate what we’re doing. This week’s show covers: Xpeng’s US IPO as well as a lot of details about the company and the two other main Chinese
August 8th, 2020 by Steve Hanley Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could do something useful with excess carbon dioxide other than capture it, compress it, and bury it deep in the bottom of the ocean? Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory may have discovered a way to do precisely that. Image credit: Argonne National Lab
The government has said it wants to see migrant boats intercepted at sea and directly returned to France in a bid to curb recent increases in Channel crossings. Home Secretary Priti Patel has appointed a “clandestine Channel threat commander” who will work to make the route “unviable for small boat crossings”. Dan O’Mahoney, a former
Boris Johnson knows that reopening England’s schools is a tricky political test he can’t afford to flunk. After June’s false start, the prime minister has now made it clear he will do everything he can to get children learning again and keep them learning. But that could involve trade-offs as other sectors are forced to
August 8th, 2020 by Brad Rouse Global problems need global solutions. Voluntary agreements and unilateral acts only go so far. We need a strategy to make climate action spread — to make it so contagious it will “go viral,” start a chain reaction, trigger a “domino effect.” Climate Deniers Are Half Right! I often hear
Boris Johnson has been urged to boost the government’s coronavirus test and trace scheme in order to safely reopen schools next month, with calls for teachers and students to be tested as often as once a week. The prime minister has declared it is a “national priority” to get all children back into the classroom
Boris Johnson says it is a “national priority” and a “moral duty” to get all pupils back in class next month, raising the prospect of closing shops, pubs and restaurants in local lockdowns to allow schools to stay open. In a newspaper article, the prime minister writes that “social justice demands” that classrooms are full