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Opinion:

¶ How Renewable Energy Could Make Climate Treaties Moot • Creating an international agreement is an admirable goal, but notably, countries are not racing to zero emissions on their own. It is amazing that no country has performed a study on the benefits and costs of going to 100% clean, renewable energy. [Scientific American]

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¶ How Virtual Power Plants Can Help Replace Dirty Peaker Plants • A recent Wall Street Journal article highlighted a common problem: How to pay for aging, mostly coal-fired power plants whose only function is as backup for peak demand? One way is to combine distributed power and loads sources in a “virtual” power plant. [CleanTechnica]

Science and Technology:

¶ Sooner than it takes to build a nuclear power station, lithium-air batteries could be helping wind and solar to make coal, oil and nuclear obsolete, according to researchers from the…