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Here’s what you need to know about the warming planet, how it’s affecting us, and what’s at stake. Every hour the sun beams onto Earth more than enough energy to satisfy global energy needs for an entire year. Solar energy is the technology used to harness the sun’s energy and make it useable. Today, the
Q. Recently our utility bills have increased dramatically. We have tried to turn off appliances we don’t use all the time and keep some rooms we don’t use closed off to save on cooling. The next bill was almost as high as the last one. What else can we do? A. The first thing to
LOS ANGELES – In the course of a 17-year experiment on more than 1 million plants, scientists put future global warming to a real world test – growing California flowers and grasslands with extra heat, carbon dioxide and nitrogen to mimic a not-so-distant, hotter future. The results, simulating a post-2050 world, aren’t pretty. And they
SOLAR TAX BREAK EXTENDED In late 2015, Congress extended the federal investment tax credit, allowing solar panel buyers to get a 30 percent tax credit for residential and commercial solar systems. The residential credit is slated to be phased out by 2023. For more information, go to energy.gov/savings/business-energy-investment-tax-credit-itc. Graphics To generate a lot of energy from
