The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Manufacturing consent in science: the diabolical twist
Predatory corporations who spray poisonous pesticides all over the world and cause birth defects need special protection and cover? Invent, overnight, and broadcast, a consensus that a basically harmless virus is the cause of those tragic defects. I can assure you there are many scientists who don’t, for a second, believe the Zika virus is the agent of destruction. But they are keeping their mouths shut now and rolling with the tide.
These Solar Panels Can Generate Electricity Using Rain
Solar power has always been spotty in less than ideal weather conditions. Are cities just going to shut down when the clouds start appearing? Alas, it seems so. But there is hope. Fortunately, a team of Chinese scientists are working to solve this problem. In a study published in Angewandte Chemie, Chinese scientists note that they are now able to create electricity with the assistance of raindrops. This is thanks to a thin layer of graphene they use to coat their solar cells during testing.
Caltech’s 2500 Orbiting Solar Panels Could Provide Earth With Limitless Energy
The Space Solar Power Initiative (SSPI), a collaboration between Caltech and Northrup Grumman, has developed a system of lightweight solar power tiles which can convert solar energy to radio waves and can be placed in orbit to beam power to an energy-thirsty Earth.
Rooftop solar could provide nearly half of US electricity demand
A major new study has significantly lifted the potential of rooftop solar PV in the United States, saying rooftop solar alone could provide 40 per cent of all the electricity needs of the world’s biggest economy, and around half if module efficiencies continued to improve. The study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory says the estimated potential from rooftop solar has been revised upwards by more than 80 per cent since the last study in 2008, mostly because of improvements of module efficiencies, building availability and solar modelling.
Tip of the Hat to Michael Di Matteo & Paul Szuster @ LinkedIn.
The Future Is Here: U.S. Energy Storage Triples in 2015
Energy storage installations grew 243% in 2015, and it looks like years of growth are ahead.
A recent report from GTM Research and ESA called U.S. Energy Storage Monitor shows that 2015 was a breakout year for the energy storage industry, and an explosion of growth could be on the horizon. Overall, energy storage installations grew 243% in 2015 to 221 MW (standard discharge time of one hour for these reports). Incredibly, this is just the start of the industry's growth. The authors predict that energy storage will be a 1.7 GW, or $2.5 billion, business by 2020.
The World’s Largest Waste-to-Energy Plant is Being Built in China
It is important to note that the facility is really less about generating sustainable energy and more about finding a solution to address the mounting waste problem in the country, and it’s set to be just one of the 300 plants that the government will be building over the next three years. . . . Granted it’s not the most ideal solution, given that it will produce a lot of CO2 in the process, but considering that it will convert at least a third of the trash into electricity, it will help manage the country’s rapidly overflowing landfills and illegal dumps.
