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“Clean” electricity by 2035 faces two major hurdles
There is increasing concern that electricity generation from fossil fuels contributes to climate change and air pollution. In response to these concerns, governments around the world are encouraging the installation of intermittent electricity generation projects including Industrial Wind Turbines (IWT’s).
But Whoa, Nelly! NIMBY’s (Not-In-My-Backyard) around the globe from Germany to Australia, California, New York, and Massachusetts are speaking loudly, and acting, to put a halt to the invasion of noisy wind farms in their backyards. Following numerous reports from Maryland to Canada to France on wind turbine noise, the NIMBY’s are becoming energized (no pun intended).
By Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff
December 10, 2020
Taft Street hosts a three-decker lineup.
The Boston Society of Architects held a virtual conversation about sustainable homes and energy retrofits for small- to middle-scale housing last week as a part of its upcoming exhibition, the “Future-Decker Series.”
The series features discussions with residents, architects, and designers as they share and learn from one other about the past, present, and future of the iconic building type that’s prevalent in Dorchester and other Boston neighborhoods: the three-decker.
Speakers touched on the architectural, economic, and, ultimately, social value of retrofitting three-deckers to be sustainable as part of the city’s carbon neutrality goals.
Could a more reliable, resilient power system result from a project funded by the US Navy Office of Naval Research? Researchers at Stony Brook University, together with the University of Massachusetts Lowell, hope to make that a reality. Another goal is to improve energy generation efficiency, system operation, and storage in microgrids, including those located in shore-based environments.
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The two schools will each take on nine distinct research projects to improve grid control, security and infrastructure monitoring, energy storage, materials and grid management, and zero-carbon fuels. The projects will complement each other, and the schools will split the $7.36 million grant.