Google will embrace thermal storage at its new data center in Taiwan, making ice at night, when electricity is cheaper, and using it to cool buildings during the day. [Grist]
Chile’s Supreme Court rejects legal challenges to a hydroelectric dam project, ruling that the project violates no one’s Constitutional rights. Five dams are planned on the Baker and Pascua rivers in Patagonia, a southern region of glaciers, deep valleys and mountains. The nation’s president supports the project for economic reasons, but environmentalists contend that it will harm ecosystems. [Associated Press]
From Syracuse, N.Y., to Minneapolis, many American cities racked up savings this winter because the unusually mild weather required far lower expenditures on snow and ice removal. [USA Today]
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