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The Wall of Wind can blow away buildings at Category 5 hurricane strength to help engineers design safer homes – but even that isn’t powerful enough

Environmental News Bits

Tolera, Florida International University; Arindam Chowdhury, Florida International University, and Ioannis Zisis, Florida International University In an airplane hangar in Miami, engineers are recreating some of the most powerful hurricane winds to ever strike land.

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In a warming world, climate scientists consider category 6 hurricanes

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

For more than 50 years, the National Hurricane Center has used the Saffir-Simpson Windscale to communicate the risk of property damage; it labels a hurricane on a scale from Category 1 (wind speeds between 74 -- 95 mph) to Category 5 (wind speeds of 158 mph or greater).

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How renewables can play a bigger part in Canada's electricity system

Corporate Knights

Renewable power is being deployed at a breakneck pace globally , with wind and solar set to lead record-breaking growth around the world this year, according to the latest report from the International Energy Agency. But they don’t necessarily fit into the categories that come to mind when we think about power.

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What’s Worse than Catastrophic?

Energy Central

Although we probably didn’t know its name, we’re all familiar with the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind scale with its category rating for the strength of hurricanes. Category 5 is the strongest hurricane. It also labels Category 4 as catastrophic, but that’s a discussion for another day.

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Climate change brings earlier arrival of intense hurricanes

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

New research has revealed that since the 1980s, Category 4 and 5 hurricanes (maximum wind speed greater than 131 miles per hour) have been arriving three to four days earlier with each passing decade of climate change.

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Siemens Energy Issues Inaugural €1.5 Billion Green Bond

ESG Today

The framework included Renewable Energy as the only eligible category for use of proceeds, with eligibility limited to expenditures related to “the design, development, manufacturing and installation of onshore and offshore wind turbines,” and “the operation and maintenance of onshore and offshore wind farms.”

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Leading Industry Publication: Black & Veatch Remains Among Global Critical Infrastructure Leaders as Sustainability, Decarbonization Solutions Drive Growth

3BL Media

As a global leader in renewable energy infrastructure, Black & Veatch served a port-marshalling role and developed a unique, customized environment, health and safety (HSE) program for the Vineyard Wind off of Massachusetts’ coast – the first commercial-scale offshore wind project in the United States.