A roundup of news items related to climate change and other environmental issues in Florida:
Researchers want to limit cow burps, a significant contributor to climate change | Florida Today
A taste for things grassy makes a hungry cow gassy — enough so to warm the world. That’s why climate scientists say it’s vital to study the burps between the “moos,” not to mention the toots out the other end.
That’s right: Cow belches and flatulence are a serious contributor to climate change.
Now the University of Florida has a $5 million federal grant in hand to figure out how to blunt cow burps that unleash so much heat-trapping methane.
Duke Energy tests solar farm floating on water in clean energy pilot project | FOX 13 Tampa Bay
A solar farm on water instead of land may be the future of clean energy.
Duke Energy Florida’s “Hines Floating Solar Project” is the first-of-its kind in the state, and it’s located at the Hines Energy Complex in Bartow. More than 1,800 solar panels float effortlessly in the middle of a 1,200-acre cooling pond, creating clean energy.
“This project is one megawatt and to just conceptualize the energy use it’ll be about 100 houses that it will service or feed annually,” said Shayna Fraleigh, the project manager for Duke Energy Florida.
How ‘cherry-picking’ policies let one insurer win big in Florida’s insurance crisis | Washington Post
CAPE CORAL, Fla. — “This blows my mind,” the podcast host said. Was starting an insurance company in Florida really that simple?
It was February 2022, and Bruce Lucas had joined “The Insurance Guys” to talk about his new tech-insurance start-up, Slide.
But first, the Alabama-based hosts needed him to spell something out: If they too wanted to open up a carrier in the Sunshine State, they “could essentially take over a bundle” of policies from the state and then “those people would essentially get a letter saying, ‘Hey, you are now part of (the new) insurance company’?”
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