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February 25, 2021 LARAMIE, Wyo., February 25, 2021 — The Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium has allocated funds to help sponsor two Mechanical Engineering student teams from the University of Wyoming. The teams are building photovoltaic (PV) prototypes to be used in 9H Research Foundation’s Renewable Energy Facility. The Wyoming…

LARAMIE, Wyo., February 25, 2021 — The 9H Research Foundation received shipment of more than 2,000 photovoltaic (PV) modules from First Solar earlier this week. First Solar’s in-kind donation amounts to 0.89MWdc of modules, worth roughly $300,000. The panels are First Solar’s latest Series 6TM advanced thin film solar technology…

Pledging to go carbon zero is currently all the rage for governments around the world. Back in October 2018, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated that to have even a 50% chance of keeping global warming in check, global emissions would have to hit net zero…

Canada tabled new legislation on November 19th that would force current and future federal governments to set binding climate targets for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. If it passes, the bill would put the country on equal footing with a swathe of others like China, the UK, New Zealand and…

If nothing else, Covid-19 has taught us a hard lesson in radical uncertainty. While one scientific paper back in 2007 warned ominously of a coronavirus “time bomb” from China, no one predicted the devastating health crisis and unprecedented macroeconomic shock that blew through 2020 like a hurricane. More than six…