Solar, EVs and a Big Exit From Coal: 2024’s Good Climate News Record solar installations, Norway’s electric vehicle revolution and a G7 member’s coal phase-out are just some of the good news stories for the planet this year. 12/23/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Top US solar stories of 2024 Before we power into the new year, recharge and look back on the year’s most popular stories among pv magazine USA readers. 12/23/2024 - 7:30 pm | View Link
One of Texas’ dirtiest coal plants will swap to solar with help from US grant One of Texas' 15 coal plants will shut down and swap to solar + battery storage, with a billion-dollar USDA grant to help rural jobs. 12/23/2024 - 8:33 am | View Link
Solar-powered desalination A new system could make brackish groundwater drinkable at low cost in communities where seawater and grid power are limited. 12/23/2024 - 8:00 am | View Link
Parker Solar Probe to make closest-ever approach to sun on Christmas Eve, NASA says Hurtling around the sun at approximately 430,000 mph, the uncrewed vehicle is expected to come within 3.8 million miles of the sun. 12/23/2024 - 4:58 am | View Link
Hard to believe that "The Christmas Song" was written in 1945. There is hardly a Christmas without that classic by Mel Torme and Robert Wells.
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The Broncos’ running back question might only be adding more potential answers.
Denver brought Tyler Badie back to practice on Tuesday, opening his 21-day return-to-play window ahead of Saturday’s game at Cincinnati.
Badie had just ascended to the 53-man roster and seemingly into the Broncos’ regular running back rotation when he suffered a scary back injury Week 4 at the New York Jets.
“He’s doing well,” head coach Sean Payton said.
By RAUL DOMINGUEZ
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Colorado secured what it said was record insurance coverage for quarterback Shedeur Sanders and Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter as the star duo opted to complete their college careers in the Alamo Bowl rather than sit out and prepare for the NFL draft.
Colorado would not disclose the amount of insurance coverage each received, citing privacy laws.
The Christmas tradition has become nearly global in scope: Children from around the world track Santa Claus as he sweeps across the earth, delivering presents and defying time.
Each year, at least 100,000 kids call into the North American Aerospace Defense Command to inquire about Santa’s location. Millions more follow online in nine languages, from English to Japanese.
On any other night, NORAD is scanning the heavens for potential threats, such as last year’s Chinese spy balloon.
A caller named Joshua from California called into C-SPAN and was talking with host Mimi Geerges about the incoming squad of sexual predators and rapists, such as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Pete Hegseth, and even the Orange Felon himself. Geerges, who was probably warned about the overly litigious Felon, had to cover her and the station's ass by correcting the caller (emphasis mine):
GEERGES: There's Joshua in Los Angeles, Democrat.
Florida GOP Rep. Carlos Gimenez called Trump's idiotic threat to reclaim the Panama Canal "legitimate" during an interview on Fox Business Network this Monday.
No mention, of course, of The Trump Organization's business disputes with the country.
WEBSTER: Congressman, is Donald Trump right? Are we being ripped off on the Panama Canal?