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Environment

The truth behind how to reduce your energy use and still live well

In theory, it’s possible to live well while using energy at a rate of just 2000 watts – a quarter of the average for people in the US. Our environment reporter took on the challenge. Here’s what he discovered

Features

Three smokestacks from a coal-burning power plant send up plumes of white smoke into a blue sky

Environment

US megadrought has led to more air pollution from power plants

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Environment

Smart cladding could control whether buildings retain or emit heat

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Sheep lying under solar panels

Life

Putting solar panels in grazing fields is good for sheep

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Pleco, the world?s lightest autonomous waterless solar panel cleaning robot. The robot is specifically designed to handle the unique safety and efficiency challenges involved in cleaning C&I installations.

Technology

Solar panel cleaning robot can be dropped off and picked up by drone

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Environment

Surplus wind energy to heat water for fuel-poor households in Ireland

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The Voltaire jack-up ship

Technology

Ship taller than Eiffel Tower will build biggest offshore wind farm

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CarbFix CO2 injection site

Technology

The green tech that could help Iceland become carbon neutral by 2040

Insight

US President Joe Biden celebrating the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act

Environment

US action on climate change will start to get serious in 2023

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Achieving nuclear fusion would be building on the shoulders of giants

Physics

Achieving nuclear fusion would be building on the shoulders of giants

It took generations of work by engineers and scientists to reach this month’s nuclear fusion milestone, but there are big challenges ahead, says Matthew Sparkes

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Space

Mars has enough wind to power bases near the poles all year round

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Technology

Biggest science news stories of 2022 as chosen by 51¶¯Âþ

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Physics

Unlimited energy from fusion became a more feasible prospect in 2022

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Earth

2022: The year of rolling polycrisis, but with a few glimmers of hope

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