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SmartFlower is an intelligent "sunflower" that will "bloom" to produce clean solar energy.

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A wall of election posters for candidates of the upcoming election to Greenland parliament, in Nuuk, Greenland, Tuesday March 30, 2021. The autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, Greenland, will hold an election to its Parliament consisting of 31 members, on April 6, 2021.
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Greenland has the world’s largest undeveloped deposits of rare-earth metals.
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The US Needs a Macrogrid
To move electricity from areas that make it to areas that need it.
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In this Thursday, July 26, 2018 file photo, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, left, with the main cyrogenic heating exchange behind him, and Thomas Farrell, II, chairman, president and CEO, Dominion Energy, speak with reporters at Dominion Energy's Cove Point LNG liquefaction Project facility in Lusby, Md., Tom Farrell, who led Dominion Energy for more than a decade, has died Friday, April 2, 2021 one day after he stepped down from his post. He was 66.
Dominion Energy Exec Dies Day After Retiring
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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, center, shakes hands with West Virginia Great Barrel Co. managing partners Tom Crabtree, left, and Philip Cornett at an announcement in Charleston, Oct. 19, 2017.
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The morning sun rises behind oil rigs sitting in storage Saturday, Feb. 6 at a yard outside of Odessa, Texas.
Oil Cartel to Slowly Boost Crude Oil Output
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FirstEnergy Corp.'s Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio, April 4, 2017.
Company Refunds $26M as Nuclear Bailout Repealed
FirstEnergy is under scrutiny for its role in a $60 million bribery and corruption scheme.
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In this Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan, speaks during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Reganis taking steps to restore what he calls “scientific integrity” at the EPA. And one way Regan is trying to do that is by reversing Trump administration actions that sidelined many academic scientists as advisers in favor of industry figures.
EPA Head Removes Trump-era Science Advisers
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