An iron meteorite from the UCLA Meteorite Gallery. (Image credit: UCLA Meteorite Gallery) You’re probably familiar with how the solar system looks today. There are eight officially recognized planets located more or less on the same plane, orbiting the sun. But have you ever given a thought to what it looked like billions of years
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Forecasters were briefing the Federal Emergency Management Agency on May 9 as part of the 2024 Space Weather Tabletop Exercise when they learned a real solar storm was coming. Powerful solar flares and a series of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were headed for Earth. “I’m briefing FEMA Region 8 [in Denver] about real-time space weather
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Multinational mining company Rio Tinto has finished installation work at the Diavik Diamond Mine in Canada and has announced plans for two 5.25 MW plants at a bauxite mine in Australia’s Northern Territory. July 5, 2024 Matthew Lynas and Ev Foley Rio Tinto has completed a 3.5 MW solar power plant in Canada’s Northwest Territories,
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Painting roofs white or covering them with a reflective coating would be more effective at cooling cities like London than vegetation-covered “green roofs,” street-level vegetation or solar panels, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. Conversely, extensive use of air conditioning would warm the outside environment by as much as 1 degree C in
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Latest The site will be monitored to assess methods of scaling up offshore floating PV. Image: SolarDuck. European floating solar (FPV) company SolarDuck has installed an offshore FPV pilot site in the Dutch North Sea. Alongside German energy company RWE, the 0.5MWp Merganser FPV site was successfully installed around 1.2km off the coast of Scheveningen
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A total solar eclipse will come to Siberia, Greenland, Iceland, Spain and Portugal on Aug. 12, 2026. (Image credit: Alan Dyer/Stocktrek Images via Getty Images) Are you ready for the next total solar eclipse? As soon as the April 2024, eclipse across North America was over, eclipse chasers turned their attention to planning for the
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Henning Schulz: In recent years we have seen good growth rates in Europe, and we also see them this year. Although there are some voices which say the market may not be as big as had been forecast; forecast was about 90GW, some people say now around 80GW. We are analysing to see what the
Latest News , Editors’ Blog , Features “We need to be thinking more globally in terms of our approach to the global supply chain,” said Sonia Dunlop. Image: PV Tech. A collective effort will be required by the global solar sector to realise the potential of the solar PV industry, according to Sonia Dunlop, CEO
Latest News , Editors’ Blog , Features Other CSSI in NSW include the 2.2GW PHES power station Snowy 2.0 and Oven Mountain, a 600MW/7200MWh, billion-dollar energy storage project. Image: NSW government. The New South Wales (NSW) government has declared six renewable energy projects, including one solar and three pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) sites, as
Latest News , Editors’ Blog , Features The solar farms will help spearhead renewable energy developments in the region once Rio Tinto’s mining facility (above) closes at the end of the decade. Image: Rio Tinto. British-Australian multinational mining company Rio Tinto is set to develop two 5.25MW solar farms in the Gove Peninsula of the
