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Why solar power is the only viable power source in the long run

Not only is solar more than capable of supplying all the world’s energy, in the long term it is the only power source that won’t fry the planet

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Nuclear fusion gets a boost from a controversial debunked experiment

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TOPSHOT - This photo taken on August 16, 2022 shows solar panels among Sichuan pepper field in Bijie, in China's southwestern Guizhou province. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

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Bill McKibben makes a powerful pitch for solar in optimistic new book

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Chemistry

How superheavy chemistry could rearrange the periodic table

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Earth

Deep-living microbes could 'eat' energy generated by earthquakes

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Skydweller Aero

Technology

Solar drone with wingspan wider than jumbo jet could fly for months

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Could old mines host all the solar energy we need?

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Could old mines host all the solar energy we need?

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Technology

Cyberattacks could exploit home solar panels to disrupt power grids

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Physics

Could Israel's bombing trigger a nuclear accident in Iran?

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Earth

Could natural hydrogen from underground help the UK get to net zero?

Rocks in some parts of the UK have the potential to produce natural hydrogen, but it remains unclear whether the gas is present in economically viable quantities

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Earth

The prospectors hunting hydrogen along a US continental rift

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Physics

Physicist Frank Close's new book is a welcome rework of the atomic age

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Fusion power may never happen if we don't fix the lithium bottleneck

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Society

This is how to avoid annihilating ourselves in a nuclear war

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