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Top 10 Economic Benefits of Converting to Solar Energy

Sunrun

Going solar can affect the climate, the economy and our own pocket books. Here are 10 important benefits to home solar. Solar Controls Energy Costs 1. Solar can mean lower utility bills. When you choose to install a home solar system and a battery, you can better control your average electricity costs over a year.

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The ‘environmental crime of the century’ solved

Grist

The gas, CFC-11, was banned in 2010 under the Montreal Protocol — the international treaty to eliminate substances that wreck the Earth’s protective ozone layer. Years of efforts to protect the ozone layer might be reversed if the emissions continued, experts warned. Where were the gases coming from?

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Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative

Grist

Solar geoengineering — also called solar radiation management or solar radiation modification — was then and is now a fraught subject. As the climate crisis has escalated, some experts have suggested that drastic measures like solar geoengineering may eventually become necessary and so should be researched now.