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STEM

The Fabulous 5: How Do These Women Spell ‘Cool Career’? S-T-E-M

Amy Kover
December 11, 2019
This month, children around the world are meeting new classmates, organizing their backpacks and class schedules, and sharing pictures from their summer vacations. Many are also fielding their parents’ questions about STEM — science, technology, engineering and math. In 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicted that in the next 10 years, jobs in STEM-related fields will increase faster than other occupations.
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Future of electricity

Power Up: New Substations Are Helping Close The Electricity Gap In India

Virginia Citrano
November 13, 2019
Located in the Indian state of West Bengal, Ramnagar is a small town just a few miles from quiet beaches and windswept dunes lining the Bay of Bengal. While those nearby coastal towns (some 100 miles southwest of Kolkata) attract beach-loving tourists, they’re nowhere near as popular as other Indian beach destinations, such as Goa. One of the reasons: The area doesn’t have reliable electricity.
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Offshore Wind

Power Up: The World’s Most Powerful Wind Turbine Generates First Electrons

Scott Woolley
November 07, 2019
Optimism over the potential for offshore wind power is easy to find: The International Energy Agency expects global offshore wind power —spurred by a new generation of mind-bendingly powerful turbines designed to produce more electricity at a lower cost — to grow 15-fold by 2040, becoming a $1 trillion industry over the next two decades.
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Offshore Wind

Shore Leave: A 107-Meter-Long Blade For The World’s Most Powerful Offshore Wind Turbine Arrives In Boston For Testing

Tomas Kellner
November 05, 2019
Boston Harbor is no stranger to revolutions. But unlike the boxes of tea bobbing on its waters some 246 years ago, the precious cargo that arrived from Europe last week made it safely to dry land, its arrival heralding an important step in America’s energy transformation.
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Hydropower

Go With The Flow: These Engineers Are Building A Fish-Friendly Hydropower Plant

Eve Weston
November 04, 2019
In the Pacific Northwest, salmon don’t stay still for long. They are born in fresh water, take off downstream to mature in the ocean and then, when they’re old enough, they head back upriver to spawn in their birthplace, starting the cycle again. Most people have seen pictures of bears snatching returning salmon out of the water as they leap back upriver, but the fish face obstacles on their way down, as well. Navigating hydropower dams is a big one.
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Renewables

Breath Of Life: These Water Turbines Help Revive Dead Zones In Rivers

Brendan Coffey
October 16, 2019
The most important freshwater source in central North Carolina, the Yadkin River basin is home to some 38 rare species of fish and mollusks, like the Savannah lilliput and Carolina heelsplitter. The river also supports a series of hydroelectric dams that power more than 85,000 homes. While hydroelectric power is a bountiful source of clean energy, certain sites require upgrades to address low oxygen levels needed for a healthy ecosystem.
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Renewables

Atlantis Is Calling: GE Turbines To Power The World’s Largest Offshore Wind Project

Tomas Kellner
October 01, 2019

Ever since Plato wrote about the lost island of Atlantis, scientists and enthusiasts of every ilk have been searching for it. One location that’s gathered a lot of attention is Dogger Bank, a vast shallow sandbank in the North Sea. Larger than Connecticut, the bank might once have formed a land bridge connecting the U.K. with continental Europe, but disappeared 7,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, when melting glaciers caused seas to rise.

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energy mix

Mix It Up: Renewable Power Is Rising And This Tech Will Help It Shine

Sam Worley
David Hochman
September 26, 2019

Many countries have set ambitious goals for getting their electricity from renewable sources. Germany, for example, wants to generate 65% of its energy from renewables by 2030. Sweden wants to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2040.

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Hybrids

The Rise Of The Hybrids: New GE Unit Blends Batteries And Renewables To Boost Wind And Solar Power Output

Brendan Coffey
September 23, 2019
Renewable energy has been growing at breakneck speed. By 2023, according to the International Energy Agency, the world will add more than 1 terawatt (1,000 gigawatts) of renewable energy generation — a nearly 50% increase in global renewable capacity. That’s more than three times the total generating capacity of Japan, the world’s third-largest economy.
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Wind energy

The Coast With The Most: Two New U.S. Offshore Wind Farms Will Use The World’s Most Powerful Turbines

Tomas Kellner
September 19, 2019
Renewable energy company Ørsted knows a few things about the benefits of being first. In 1991, the company built the world’s first offshore wind farm a mile from the Danish coast, near the island of Lolland. By today’s standards, Vindeby — a 5-megawatt farm — was a minnow with its 11 turbines.
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