Category: Climate change
Why does the U.P. have a volcanic ridge?
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula might not be the first spot you think of when someone says “volcano,” but maybe it should be! Around 1.1 billion years ago, a rift volcano started producing massive amounts of lava in the region. That volcano (with the help of some glaciers around 10,000 years ago) formed some of the Upper Peninsula’s most iconic landscapes — including Lake Superior!
Compressed-Gas Storage Demonstrators Got Bigger. The Economics Didn’t Get Better.
Two years ago I called compressed-gas electricity-storage claims mostly hot air. Since then the sector has produced exactly the sort of evidence that should force a reassessment rather than a repetition of the old argument. China has commissioned the 600 MW / 2.4 GWh Huai’an compressed-air demonstration, Hydrostor has pushed … [continued]
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Stateside: Friday, Sept. 18, 2026
Exploring what federal rollbacks in power plant emission limits will mean for climate change in the coming decades. Also, The Dish takes a long weekend Up North with some of Traverse City’s top chefs. And, writer Lillian Li on her smash novel Bad Asians, which imagines a group of high-achievers coming of age in the Great Recession.
DTE works with net-zero Ann Arbor housing development to capture locally produced electricity
State energy regulators have given the green light to a DTE Energy pilot project to study how homeowners use their stored home battery electricity.
Copperwood Mine foes sue to block $50M grant for project near Lake Superior
Opponents are challenging a $50 million grant that Michigan awarded to a Canadian company for a copper mine in the Upper Peninsula.