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Edmonton police begin final work on dismantling ‘elaborate’ Fulton Creek encampment

Edmonton police begin final work on dismantling ‘elaborate’ Fulton Creek encampment

Published Jan 19, 2025  •  Last updated 1 day ago  •  1 minute read Screengrab from an Edmonton police video showing an extensive encampment near Fulton Creek in southeast Edmonton. Photo by Edmonton Police Service Edmonton police and park rangers last week began the final steps of dismantling an elaborate south Edmonton encampment. The site was […]

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20 years after crashing in the Utah desert, NASA’s Genesis mission is still teaching us about solar wind

20 years after crashing in the Utah desert, NASA’s Genesis mission is still teaching us about solar wind

The Genesis sample return capsule after crashing in the Utah desert on Sept. 8, 2004. (Image credit: USAF 388th Range Squadron) In the beginning … there was a thud. It was an unwanted sound, and one that resonated around the world. Think back over 20 years ago to Sept. 8, 2004. That’s when NASA’s Genesis sample return

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Madhya Pradesh to provide 170 MW solar energy to Indian Railways

Madhya Pradesh to provide 170 MW solar energy to Indian Railways

Home News National Updated – January 18, 2025 at 01:23 PM. | New Delhi ‘The Madhya Pradesh government is continuously working to promote solar energy,in this regard, the utilisation of solar energy generated in Madhya Pradesh to meet the energy needs of Indian Railways will be a significant achievement for the state’ Madhya Pradesh Chief

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Solar corporate funding drops to US$26.3 billion in 2024

Solar corporate funding drops to US$26.3 billion in 2024

All the segments recorded by Mercom – venture capital (VC) and private equity funding, public market financing, debt financing and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) – have dropped in 2024 compared with 2023. Quarterly global corporate financing in the solar industry since Q4 2020. Chart: PV Tech. Debt financing dropped by 6% year-on-year from US$20 billion

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Solar wafers to be included in US domestic content bonus

Solar wafers to be included in US domestic content bonus

In a statement, the Treasury said the new percentages for wafers “appropriately recognise cost differentials for manufacturers who use cells made with domestic wafers, thereby enhancing incentives for onshoring wafer manufacturing.” It added that the cost percentages were “based on [Department of Energy] estimates of underlying direct costs” and the “expected cost premium associated with

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Nonalloyed α-phase formamidinium lead triiodide solar cells through iodine intercalation | Science

Nonalloyed α-phase formamidinium lead triiodide solar cells through iodine intercalation | Science

Formamidinium lead triiodide (FAPbI3) is considered the most promising composition for high-performing single-junction solar cells. However, nonalloyed α-FAPbI3 is metastable with respect to the photoinactive δ-phase. We have developed a kinetic … https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads8968

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Australian state to trial solar-powered ‘smart’ highways

Australian state to trial solar-powered ‘smart’ highways

Regional highways will gain self-adaptive electronic signage with machine learning capability as part of a $5 million technology trial in New South Wales. Launched by the NSW Government, the new ‘Smarter Highways’ program will introduce several new and existing technologies to improve road safety in regional areas. Most of the trial technologies are wireless solar-powered

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X-Elio seeks EPBC approval for 720MW solar-plus-storage project in Queensland, Australia

X-Elio seeks EPBC approval for 720MW solar-plus-storage project in Queensland, Australia

Latest X-Elio entered the Australia solar PV market with its 200MW Blue Grass plant in Queensland (above). Image: X-Elio. Spanish solar PV developer X-Elio has submitted a 720MW solar-plus-storage project in Queensland, Australia, to the Federal government for approval under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act. The North Burnett Renewable Energy Hub, located

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Best of 2024: Dinosaur Prepared to Safely Watch Solar Eclipse

Best of 2024: Dinosaur Prepared to Safely Watch Solar Eclipse

Monika Luabeya Jan 14, 2025 An adult Alamosaurus sports eclipse glasses outside of The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, on April 6, 2024. Two days later, the total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada. A partial solar eclipse was

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