solar energy
The Energy Debate Has Nothing to Do With the Technology
You plug something in and it works. That’s the whole relationship we have with energy. The light comes on. The phone charges. What’s behind the wall is someone else’s problem and always has been. That invisibility is the reason this conversation is so hard. Nobody campaigns against coal because nobody sees it. The plant is…
Rio Tinto Links Mining to Clean Energy in Utah
Rio Tinto (LON:RIO) has turned on a 25-megawatt solar plant at its Kennecott copper mine in Utah. Along with a 5MW array finished in 2023, the site now has 30MW of solar capacity—enough to supply electricity for about 1,000 homes and cut Scope 2 emissions by 20,000 tons of CO₂, or the equivalent of taking…
