John was the founding editor of Climatewire. He's now a reporter working on special projects, based in Denver, Colo. He's a former reporter with The Wall Street Journal, where he covered a wide variety of issues for the Washington bureau. He also served abroad as the lead reporter for the Journal in the first Gulf War and in the London bureau, during the waning days of the Cold War. He has written four books and is the co-founder of SOAR!, a group that has raised more than $10 million to help retired Catholic sisters and brothers.
U.S. scientists believe they have removed one of the last obstacles to commercializing a more efficient and cheaper solar panel made from an alternative material to silicon called perovskite.
U.S. scientists believe they have removed one of the last obstacles to commercializing a more efficient and cheaper solar panel made from an alternative material to silicon called perovskite.
Researchers are grappling with the potential threat of a rogue nation that acts alone to address climate change by altering the atmosphere's composition. Their findings could accelerate the debate over geoengineering.
Multiple deals shook up the renewable energy storage business last year. What had started as an experiment with solar energy and large storage batteries in Hawaii in 2016 appears to have inspired a $2.8 billion global explosion of investments and mergers in 2019 — an increase of 103%.
To lower the price of solar energy, a team of U.S. researchers suggests in a new paper that manufacturers go thin.