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Achieving Paris Climate Targets Could Save Nearly 300,000 American Lives

Duke researchers estimated that implanting energy and transportation policies that would reduce carbon emissions to the goals set in Paris could prevent 295,000 premature deaths and have an economic benefit of $250 billion

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NOAA Model Finds Renewable Energy Could be Deployed in the U.S. Without Storage

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Monica Heger

Will Nanophotonics Save Solar Power Tech?

Incorporating nanostructures with light harnessing properties could cost-effectively drive up the efficiency of solar cells

Achieving Paris Climate Targets Could Save Nearly 300,000 American Lives

Duke researchers estimated that implanting energy and transportation policies that would reduce carbon emissions to the goals set in Paris could prevent 295,000 premature deaths and have an economic benefit of $250 billion

NOAA Model Finds Renewable Energy Could be Deployed in the U.S. Without Storage

The simulation found that a national network of HVDC transmission lines in combination with mostly solar and wind energy could lower both electricity prices and carbon emissions

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Monica Heger

Will Nanophotonics Save Solar Power Tech?

Incorporating nanostructures with light harnessing properties could cost-effectively drive up the efficiency of solar cells

Achieving Paris Climate Targets Could Save Nearly 300,000 American Lives

Duke researchers estimated that implanting energy and transportation policies that would reduce carbon emissions to the goals set in Paris could prevent 295,000 premature deaths and have an economic benefit of $250 billion

NOAA Model Finds Renewable Energy Could be Deployed in the U.S. Without Storage

The simulation found that a national network of HVDC transmission lines in combination with mostly solar and wind energy could lower both electricity prices and carbon emissions

Trending Stories

Waiting for Superbatteries

The Future of the Transistor Is Our Future

The Transistor at 75