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Solar-powered system gives efficiency boost to desalination

Envirotec Magazine

Mock-up of solar evaporation system, connected to temperature and humidity detection system, with a brine water injection system and a purified water collection system (image credit: University of Waterloo).

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Solar-powered reactor shows potential for creating jet fuel with net-zero carbon emissions

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To address this need, scientists have been working to devise a way to use sunlight to generate solar-thermal heating that could then drive the chemical reactions that are needed to make jet fuel with net-zero carbon emissions. But there are still areas where carbon-based fuel remains the standard, such as in the aviation industry.

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Cybersecurity vulnerabilities in solar power could be used to attack the grid and cause blackouts

Envirotec Magazine

Cybersecurity vulnerabilities in solar power systems pose potential risks to grid security, stability and availability, according to a new study The SUN:DOWN research – conducted by Forescout Research, a specialist in cybersecurity – investigated different implementations of solar power generation.

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World may have crossed solar power 'tipping point,' study suggests

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The world may have crossed a "tipping point" that will inevitably make solar power our main source of energy, new research suggests.

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Solar-powered method converts sewage sludge into green hydrogen and animal feed

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Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), have developed an innovative solar-powered method to transform sewage sludgea by-product of wastewater treatmentinto green hydrogen for clean energy and single-cell protein for animal feed.

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EDP Brings 300 MW of Solar Power Online in Southern California

POWER Magazine

Renewable energy developer EDP Renewables North America (EDPR NA) said two solar farms with a combined 300 MW of generation capacity are now operating in Kern County, California. The two-phase […] The post EDP Brings 300 MW of Solar Power Online in Southern California appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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US solar power generation holds steady even during extreme fire seasons

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it does not have much of an impact on overall, long-term solar power generation activity. New research from Colorado State University shows that while wildfire smoke increasingly covers large parts of the U.S.