Restoring pollinator habitat to solar farms in the midwest USA, tripled insect abundance and increased bees abundance twentyfold. 🔌💡 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
If looking at wildfire cases, there are still 100s in Santa Cruz Mountains with no drinking water, melted pipes, infrastructure, etc., from 2020 CZU wildfire. Big Basin Water Company utility is in receivership; might get sold to a water utility in Missouri (!!). www.mercurynews.com/2023/05/21/o...
Environmental incidents prove irresponsibility of ongoing addiction to plastics in critical infrastructure.
Restoring native vegetation at solar projects in Minnesota on marginal or retired farmland can double soil carbon, increase nitrogen and other micro / macro nutrients, and reduce plant water stress. ☀️🌱 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
California autumn. Looking south through the Monte Bello preserve over the Stevens Creek headwaters towards Santa Cruz
Water and renewable energy transitions, our latest article on the regional impacts of lithium extraction.💧 The Geographer, special issue on Water as Life, under the surface of water security and scarcity. issuu.com/rsgspubs/doc...
Restoring pollinator habitat to solar farms in the midwest USA, tripled insect abundance and increased bees abundance twentyfold. 🔌💡 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Just guessing. I think WECC is probably more accurate.
Time to make 2024 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon is new this year. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of October. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
I just used what is reported in the legend, 370k acres. But I just redownloaded and filtered data for Nevada from EPA and roughly confirmed acreage, though didnt filter for sites larger than 10acres. The xls file is here. Not sure what is going on with the TNC map. www.epa.gov/re-powering/...
An interactive web application which allows users to identify contaminated lands, landfills and mine sites for renewable energy development.
Superpower Beyond Clean Energy. The sites fight climate change and can help with another global crisis: the collapse of nature. But so far, efforts to nurture wildlife habitat have been spotty. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/c...
The sites fight climate change and can help with another global crisis: the collapse of nature. But so far, efforts to nurture wildlife habitat have been spotty.