Climate Change Cooling Wind Power 
Enviromental Defense
JANUARY 9, 2025
The way we get around, where and what kind of places we live in, and how we heat and cool our homes are going to be key to our quality of life and the health of our environment this year. Speaking of homes, heating and cooling a home in Canada where we see 50 degree temperature swings over the course of the year requires lots of energy.
Scientific American
JULY 16, 2025
This June construction began on a wind-powered underwater data center about six miles off the coast of Shanghai, one of China’s AI hubs. Keeping Data Centers Cool Data centers store information and perform complex calculations for businesses, whose increasing automation is steadily ramping up such needs.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 16, 2025
Those include issuing executive orders that seek to hit wind power hard both offshore and on land and to prop up coal power plants , which are increasingly uneconomic (and have always been bad for public health). Massive natural resources in the wind, the sun, the earth, and water.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 22, 2022
by Daniel Farber, University of California, Berkeley On July 20, 2022, President Joe Biden traveled to a former coal-burning power plant in Massachusetts that is being converted into a manufacturing site for offshore wind power equipment.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 30, 2023
More sun, wind and water means more power from the three largest sources of renewable electricity in the country. Between heating and cooling seasons Headlines about renewable energy records also highlight how much of electricity demand renewables are meeting at a given time. Indeed, they are good reasons to focus even more.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 11, 2023
However, much of the attention paid to the flood risk of power plant sites has centered on nuclear plants, which also require a water source for the creation of steam, as well as for keeping the plant cool in an emergency. The link to climate change is clearer, however, with floods.
Enviromental Defense
MARCH 22, 2022
We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. A s we transition our homes and vehicles to electric power, it’s imperative that the electricity sector be clean. The costs of wind and solar power have been dropping like a stone.
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