SchwartzReport: Solar Cell Power Breakthrough

Here is what may turn out to be very important news for solar energy. I am always struck by what might have happened if the political will to quickly make the transition out of carbon energy had been mustered. Solar Cell Power Breakthrough University of Copenhagen – Niels Bohr Institute

Sepp Hasslberger: World’s largest solar power plant

Sepp Hasslberger‘s insight: It took $ 600 million and 3 years to build this – not bad for a plant that doesn’t need fuel, leaves no polluting exhaust and is extremely safe. Arabia could be exporting electricity instead of oil. Future business for desert countries? Who needs oil? World’s largest solar power plant with 258,000 …

Sepp Hasslberger: 3D Design and Print of a Customized Solar Home

Video, 7:53.  Produces 150% of the energy it consumes.  Surplus can go into your car or to a less well-endowed neighbor. Solar House 2.0, erected this year on Barcelona’s waterfront, uses time-tested passive solar techniques, but it takes a high-tech leap forward using digital design and digital fabrication techniques to make it completely optimized for …

SchwartzReport: Schools Can Be Net Zero and Earn $2000 a Month with Excess Solar Power

Net Zero’s Net Worth: How Renewable Energy Is Rescuing Schools from Budget Cuts   Educators across the country are finding millions of dollars in savings through cheap and simple forms of renewable energy. Erin L. McCoy Yes! 5 November 2012 As the new Richardsville Elementary School rose from its foundations on a rural road north …