Giga, Tera, Peta-WHAT?

“89 Petawatts.”  Sounds technical, right?  Six syllables involving more than six zeroes and a prefix that we just don’t hear everyday…Best leave that number to math-heads with the really

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Renewable Storage: Leave it to MIT

Donald Sadoway of MIT may have identified a no-nonsense way to attack large mass storage for renewable energy.  His team has developed a  novel approach by simply observing 

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Two Words: “Air Conditioning”

Could critical answers to the world’s growing energy crisis possibly be couched in a phrase so seemingly mundane as “air conditioning?”  If you dig around the dialogues and data

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GREAT SCOTT! A “1.21 Gigawatt” Conundrum

Here is a 1.21 gigawatt riddle: In 2016, the State of Georgia goes live with the first new nuclear reactor in the United States in nearly 30 years.  Georgia will

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