New York signs off on $5bn Clean Energy Fund
New York signed off on a $5bn Clean Energy Fund to be deployed over the coming decade, as the state looks to become a global hub for renewable energy innovation and deployment.
Katie Herzog
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- January 12, 2016
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Dutch children learn about life and death through lion dissection
Until today, the most peculiar thing I’d heard about Denmark was that parents leave their children to sleep outside in subzero temperatures — something that would get you arrested in the United States, if not put on a government watch list. But there’s something else Denmark does very differently when it comes to child-rearing: public dissections. N0 — not dissecting the children! Come on! Two years ago, a zoo in Copenhagen decided to kill a healthy young giraffe that was deemed unfit for breeding. Afterward, the zoo held a dissection, invited the public to watch the process, and then fed Marius the giraffe to some nearby lions. The world hates little more than an animal meeting its untimely death, and an outpouring of outrage…
GE reports 1.4GW of new wind orders in December
General Electric hauled in 1.4GW of orders for new wind turbines last month, including a previously unannounced deal to supply the 230MW Horse Creek project in Texas, capping a blockbuster year for GE’s wind team.
