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Employees of NY State Solar, a residential and commercial photovoltaic systems company, install solar panels on a roof, in August 2022, in Massapequa, New York.John Minchillo (AP) Electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal in the United States for the first time in 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced Monday.

When the bidders for India's multibillion-dollar incentive to make solar components were announced in early March, the absence of corporate behemoth Adani Group was conspicuous.The group which set up a gigantic factory to make solar equipment in 2016, more than tripled its capacity to make solar panels since 2017 and have begun making silicon materials needed to convert the sun rays to electricity was expected to bid in a large way, said Chiranjeev Saluja, the managing director of Premier Energies, an Indian solar components manufacturer.

Wednesday, March 15, 2023 by Nina Hernandez
At a Tuesday press conference, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett and Foundation Communities celebrated $3.5 million in federal funds that will go toward three of the local housing nonprofit's programs serving low- and middle-income families in Austin."Before affordability was a top concern for folks across our community, Foundation Communities was doing something about it," Doggett said.

Oxygen Squad
Researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center have successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil.According to the agency, it's the first time such an extraction was completed inside a vacuum environment like the actual Moon.It's an exciting proof of concept scientifically, but also economically.

LAND Arquitectos has completed a seaside house consisting of pavilions with wooden screens laid out according to vegetation groupings on the coastal site in Chile.Named the House of Circumferences, the home was completed in 2020 by Santiago-based studio LAND Arquitectos about 300 kilometres north of the capital city.

Indian architect Sanjay Puri has joined Dezeen Awards 2023 as a judge.Here, he selects five projects that best reflect his studio's work.Puri, the principal architect and founder of Mumbai-based architecture firm Sanjay Puri Architects, describes his practice as "exploratory, constantly evolving to create spaces".

As part of our Timber Revolution series, we have rounded up the world's 10 tallest buildings with mass-timber structures, including an engineered-wood shopping-centre extension and a carbon-negative cultural centre.Compiled using data from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the roundup also features apartment towers, hotels and a school, demonstrating the potential of mass timber in building tall structures.

THE ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATOR Alaa el-Habashi had been restoring a 190-room 15th-century palace for years in the historic Cairo neighborhood of al-Darb al-Ahmar when, in 2007, he and his engineer wife, Ola Said, stumbled on a spectacularly bedraggled house nearby that would consume the next decade and a half of their lives.

Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen Architects and The Andes House have designed a modular prototype that can be configured to construct low-cost housing.The Industrialized Building System Prototype was designed by Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen Architects and The Andes House and fabricated by Cromolux in Santiago, before being assembled in the nearby town of Casablanca, Chile.

This article is part of our Design special section about making the environment a creative partner in the design of beautiful homes.When Hope Reeves and Martin Walker bought an 1899 brownstone in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, five years ago, they knew it was going to require a lot of work to meet their ambitions for a smartly functional and stylish home to share with their three sons.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced on Monday a proposed rule that seeks to bolster consumer protections for borrowers seeking Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing for home renovations.These loans, which are often used to finance environmentally-minded renovations, like the addition of solar panels, have led to financial instability for some borrowers.

Curiosity's younger "sibling," Perseverance, along with its experimental helicopter companion, Ingenuity, has just entered its third year exploring the ancient lake bed and river delta complex in Jezero crater.Since landing in February 2021, the nuclear-powered rover has driven over 9 miles, analyzing rock, soil and atmospheric gasses, and leaving behind a cache of sealed sample tubes for the proposed Mars Sample Return mission to collect and bring back to Earth.

Unlimited power!For a brief moment in 2019 there was a smartphone with a massive 18,000mAh battery - yes, that's 3-4 times bigger than a typical phone battery today.However, it failed to find an audience and it launch was canceled.We're talking about the Energizer Power Max P18K Pop, a highly descriptive name for a unique phone.

M ore than half of London properties do not meet the minimum energy efficient requirement proposed in a new members bill.Almost two million London homes, or 54 percent of those rented or sold since 2008, sit below the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of Band C - something the Liberal Democrats' bill would outlaw by 2033.

A conflict between saving carbon and building better homes has broken out on a groundbreaking 1960s council estate in London.The London borough of Camden is planning to raze and replace the West Kentish Town estate, which was built almost 60 years ago.It says the homes are too small, the concrete panel buildings are dilapidated and most residents want new homes.

Kingfisher said it expects its falling profits to drop even further this year, as it revealed that more than 1 in every 10 it made last year came from energy and water-saving products.The company behind Screwfix and B&Q has seen profits plummet from their pandemic highs when people stuck at home were investing in their living spaces.

This Aug. 26, 2003, image made available by NASA shows Mars as it lines up with the Sun and the Earth.AP Water may be more widespread and recent on Mars than previously thought, based on observations of Martian sand dunes by China's rover.The finding highlights new, potentially fertile areas in the warmer regions of Mars where conditions might be suitable for life to exist, though more study is needed.

In the silence after the final whistle you can hear the blackbirds sing, or perhaps a chaffinch or a Sardinian warbler.Or, if night has already fallen, you may see the bats swoop low over the centre circle as the fans shuffle towards the exits.This is the Spotify Camp Nou, the home of Barcelona football club but also of myriad creatures.

The cost of solar power has dropped dramatically over the past decade, making it the cheapest source of electricity in much of the world.Clearly, that can mean cheaper power.But it also means that we can potentially install panels in places that would otherwise be too expensive and still produce power profitably.

Ample daylight, worker ammenities and low-maintenance gardens feature in a large campus for a housewares company that was designed by Mexican architecture studios Estudio MMX and Luis Campos.The project - referred to as Campus Betterware Guadalajara, or CBG - occupies a 7.5-hectare site in El Arenal, a town north of Guadalajara in the western state of Jalisco.

On the shores of Lac de Joux in Vaud, Switzerland, Ralph Germann architectes designed House EMGD, a modern lake house built for two.The clients requested that all main rooms look out to the water without obstructed sight lines, a challenge when it came to engineering.Longing to keep things simple, the architect looked to old boathouses for inspiration, where the lake is the focus and not the interiors.

Homelessness is an ever-prevailing issue that only seems to be growing as time passes.Architect Shail Patel decided to create and harness a rather innovative and unique solution to address the complex social issue that is space shortage in an increasingly expensive world.He utilized the artificial intelligence design tool Midjourney to create a series of modular pods that are designed to help those in a tough situation find a space for the night or even become a permanent place they can count on.

Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen Architects and The Andes House teamed up to create modular housing that can be configured and modified to build low-cost housing.In a time and age, where the housing crisis is accelerating daily, The Industrialized Building System Prototype is an ingenious solution fabricated by Cromulux in Santiago, with the final assembly taking place in the town of Casablanca, Chile.

Realtor.com There's no doubt about it-we're infinitely intrigued by tiny homes.Perhaps it's because they allow us to live in wildly varied locations without spending an arm and a leg.Or perhaps it's because these petite properties are low maintenance, and have a way smaller footprint.Whatever the reason that draws you to diminutive dwellings, you'll love these five we've picked out.

Realtor.comThose of us who like our sunlight hours to extend into the evening will appreciate the upcoming transition to daylight saving time-as well as houses that take full advantage of it.We've found five gorgeous glass houses that look out on some of the most glorious landscapes in the country: the mountains around Sundance, scenic Lake Placid, and the Mojave Desert's Joshua Tree, just to name a few highlights.

A momentary gleam of starlight could reveal alien construction to the next generation of telescopes, a recent paper suggests.We've all experienced it: the glint of sunlight bouncing off a car passenger's cell phone screen, nearly blinding us as we try to keep our eyes on the road.That phenomenon, in which a shiny object reflects light in one direction, is called specular reflection.

Czech studio Mjölk Architekti has created a mass-timber building with a gabled solar-panelled roof for the headquarters of timber and forest management company Kloboucká lesní in the Czech Republic.With its oversized timber gable, the four-storey structure in Brumov-Bylnice nods to traditional architectural forms.