heat
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Can solar panels handle the heat of a warming world?
"Panels are a little like people; they like temperate conditions with light winds and low humidity, and that’s when they function the best.”
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The ticket to 100% renewable power is underneath our feet
What if fracking technology helps us discover our renewable energy dreams?
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Smokey was wrong. You can’t prevent wildfires, and you shouldn’t try.
Time to accept that Southern California wildfires are a simple fact of life.
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Today’s headlines, brought to you from the future
The extreme heatwave in the Southwest is just the beginning.
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Anchorage, Alaska, is so hot right now
For the first time in recorded history, temps in Anchorage didn't drop below zero all year. Alaskans are freaked out.
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Climate change could take away high school football
High school football season is heating up—but not in a good way. Climate change could ruin the sport for good.
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The sun’s atmosphere looks like an amazing painting
Sure, the surface of the sun is hot and all, but the sun’s atmosphere is hotter — by a factor of 1,000. And as it turns out, it’s not just hot like “will burn you up faster than a Tony Robbins seminar” hot. It’s also hot like gorrrrrrrrgeous. Scientists know that the sun’s atmosphere (the […]
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Dress shirt uses spacesuit technology to keep you dry on your bike commute
You know how you don’t bike to work because you get hot and sweaty and gross? A group of MIT graduates has stolen that excuse. They copied technology from spacesuits and used it to make what BikeBlogNYC has rightly dubbed “the TANG of dress shirts” — a sharp-looking top that regulates your body heat. No […]
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Critical List: Warmest March on record for 25 states; LEGO hermit crab shell
A round-up of the news of the day.