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Reflectors in space could make solar farms on Earth work for longer every day

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A dim flash of light appeared in Europe on the night of 5th February 1993. This came from a Russian space mirror called Znamya-2, a 20 metre reflective structure much like aluminium foil (Znamya means “banner” in Russian),  which unfurled from a spacecraft that had just undocked from the Rus...

Britons to lose out – Labour scrapping £28bn green pledge

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According to a report in the Guardian, business experts and green campaigners have said that Britons are likely to be worse off if the next government fails to invest in a green economy. Dr Anupama Sen is head of policy engagement at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the Unive...

Computing Infrastructure group wins prize for work on sustainable networks

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Sawsan El-Zahr from the Computing Infrastructure group has won the Internet Research Task Force Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) 2024 for work on sustainable networks. The prize was awarded for the research paper “Exploring the Benefits of Carbon-Aware Routing”, by Sawsan E...

Octopus dives into data heat

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Octopus Energy has taken a £200m stake in Deep Green. This could help the UK company expand on its demonstrator in the south west, which uses heat from a data centre to heat a swimming pool.

Orbital reflectors could boost solar energy around dusk and dawn

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Researchers at the University of Glasgow suggest that the falling cost of access to space might enable steered, space-based reflectors to boost power output from large solar farms for a around quarter of an hour during critical peak periods when the sun would otherwise be too low in the sky.