Great Lakes Echo

Michigan high schoolers take statewide road trip in solar-powered car  

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By Clara Lincolnhol 
On a cool and cloudy summer day, Michigan high school students recently drove the car they’d been engineering for months around the block and parked it in front of the state Capitol. The three wheeled, sharply angled, gray, white and black camo-print car seats two people and is powered by solar-charged batteries.

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Clean Technica

Silicon Ranch & Central Electric Partner With Meta to Bring 100 MW of Solar Online in Orangeburg County

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Collaboration expands Silicon Ranch relationships with both Meta and Central Project supports Meta’s 100% sustainability goal at its first data center in South Carolina Silicon Ranch, owner and operator of one of the nation’s largest fleets of solar facilities and a community-focused energy infrastructure company, will partner with Columbia-based Central Electric … [continued]

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Great Lakes Now

Heat waves and cold snaps: Study finds the Great Lakes have entered an era of extremes

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Heat waves and cold snaps: Study finds the Great Lakes have entered an era of extremes

The Great Lakes, like the rest of the world, are dealing with a phenomenon of global heating caused mostly by fossil fuel emissions. In an innovative new study from the University of Michigan, the data reveals it’s not just rising average temperatures we need to worry about. Looking back at lake surface temperatures (LST) over forty years, researchers found the Great Lakes have entered a new era of temperature extremes. 

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