National Geographic - USA (2020-04)

PAGE 43 A CROSS-COUNTRY TRIP IN ELECTRIC CARS REVEALS HOW NEW IDEAS COULD HELP POWER OUR JOURNEY TO A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE. EARTH ...

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Wind turbines and solar modules blanket the Mojave Desert in Kern County, California, one of the country’s densest concentration ...

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The furnaces at SSAB America’s steel mill in Montpelier, Iowa, are electric—and by 2022, the company says, they’ll be heated by ...

at the edge of the Pacific, near the photo booths and the pretzel stand and a man molding busts of tourists out of clay, spins a ...

The Santa Monica Pier is linked to Chicago by old Route 66—and by its solar-powered Ferris wheel. The 1893 Chicago world’s fair ...

raged in November 2018, after years of drought and rising temperatures. The blaze killed three people, forced a quarter million ...

country out of the Paris climate accord, which aims to start weaning the world off fossil fuels. Yet we also are undergoing a gr ...

of Berkeley has banned natural gas in new build- ings; Santa Monica and others are taking sim- ilar steps. Los Angeles wants to ...

plugged in our Kona, and a message appeared on the dash: Charging would take nearly six hours. Leaving the car for the night, we ...

In 2019, 40 years after the partial meltdown of a reactor at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station—America ...

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outside LeChee, Arizona, a small Navajo commu- nity near Lake Powell. In the distance, silhou- etted by a dying sun, was the Nav ...

A web of steel rebar forms the base of one of 120 future turbines at Sage Draw wind farm in the Permian Basin. Texas generates m ...

Golden San Francisco Oatman Greensburg Golden Lubbock Page Des Moines Tucumcari ILL. MISS. LOUISIANA ARKANSAS MISSOURI IOWA MINN ...

Washington, D.C. Philadelphia Perrysburg Detroit Boston New York VT. NH MASS. CONN. R.I. NEW YORK PA. N.J. MD. DEL. W.VA. VIRGIN ...

A few miles from LeChee, in Page, Arizona, we parked our new rental, a white Tesla Model S, at Horseshoe Bend, a majestic meande ...

blade failed to negotiate a corner, blocking traf- fic. As vehicles backed up, a pickup peeled out and turned around, belching b ...

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