Solar farms, power stations and water treatment plants can be attractions instead of eyesores
Are facilities that produce necessities like energy and clean water doomed to be ugly? Not when artists and landscape architects help design them.
Margaret Birney Vickery, Lecturer in Art History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• conversation
May 15, 2020 • ~9 min
May 15, 2020 • ~9 min
Tags: solar-power new-york infrastructure gardens renewable-energy landscape-architecture design denmark connecticut water-treatment aesthetics solar-farms
Our 'zombie' solar cells could power indoor devices without sunlight
How indoor solar cells could help power the Internet of Things.
Marina Freitag, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Newcastle University
• conversation
May 12, 2020 • ~6 min
May 12, 2020 • ~6 min
Tags: internet-of-things solar solar-power solar-panels
COVID-19 will slow the global shift to renewable energy, but can't stop it
The US is gradually shifting to lower-carbon energy sources, but the COVID-19 pandemic, an oil price crash and a likely recession are big speed bumps.
Peter Fox-Penner, Director, Institute for Sustainable Energy, and Professor of Practice, Questrom School of Business, Boston University
• conversation
March 31, 2020 • ~8 min
March 31, 2020 • ~8 min
Tags: covid-19 china solar-power fossil-fuels supply-chains coronavirus-2020 recession coal renewable-energy wind-energy oil-prices energy-transition electricity-generation
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