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2020 C.E.
April 17 After four coal plants in Kentucky either retired or were retrofitted, local asthma-related hospitalizations dropped and individuals used their inhalers less frequently.
2020 C.E.
April 16 Solar's rise in Germany represents one of the clearest national-scale proofs that a high-renewable grid is achievable. For five consecutive weeks in early 2020, renewables supplied more than half of Germany's electricity — a pattern, not a fluke. Two decades of guaranteed feed-in tariffs gave developers and homeowners the confidence to build, and the generation data shows it working. Coal still held roughly 18% that April week, so the transition is ongoing rather than...
2020 C.E.
April 16 While the six-junction III-V technology underlying these new cells is likely too costly at this time to be put to use in everyday rooftop applications, the new cell has great potential for application in concentrated solar panel arrays.
2020 C.E.
April 15 The 5MW solar plant will require 13,500 solar panels, which will be built across 40,000 square meters of water. It is expected to commence in July.
2020 C.E.
April 15 Gov. Northam signed the Virginia Values Act, making it the first in the South and the 21st across the United States to pass anti-discrimination protections for the LGBTQ community.
2020 C.E.
April 13 In the next few weeks, the European Union’s Food Safety Authority is expected to classify several types of insects as safe for human consumption.
2020 C.E.
April 10 The $1 billion program, which aims to cover 12 million families, is meant to assist them to “buy rations so that they don’t go hungry.”
2020 C.E.
April 10 More than 20% of Norway's CO2 emissions come from heavy-duty construction equipment, motivating the Oslo government to say all new, public buildings must be built with “fossil-free” construction machinery.
2020 C.E.
April 9 In 2019, nearly three-quarters of all new energy sources were renewable, the most ever since data collection began in 2001, according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
2020 C.E.
April 9 In several of the patients the virus cleared up entirely, leading the authors to conclude that plasma “can serve as a promising rescue option” for severe COVID-19 cases.
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