The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I see a whole new local networking technology developing here. Solar cells are available just about everywhere and so are strong led flashlights that can bridge the distance between the users of a local network and the internet feed… New Technology Uses Solar Cells As Power Source & Li-Fi Data Node The new solar ‘Li-Fi‘ …
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Solar and Wind Just Passed Another Big Turning Point “Wind power is now the cheapest electricity to produce in both Germany and the U.K., even without government subsidies, according to a new analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). It’s the first time that threshold has been crossed by a G7 economy. “But that’s less …
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Concentrated solar uses the energy-rich infrared band of solar radiation and it has great promise, but it depends on simple and cheap tech being developed to capture and convert that heat to electricity. South African team may have solved solar puzzle even Google couldn’t crack “We are developing plonkable heliostats. Plonkable means that from factory …
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How the US and the WTO Crushed India’s Subsidies for Solar Energy The subsidies which provoked the ire of the United States are in the form of Domestic Content Requirements (DCRs). These mandate that a set proportion of specified materials used in the NSM must be manufactured in India. . . . The US attack …
Nexushaus is an amazing and cheap solar living home that is water independent This one story, energy positive house comes from designers from Technische Universität München (TUM) and the University of Texas at Austin (UTA). Made with almost entirely sustainable materials, a self-reliant water capture and treatment system and solar panels, Nexushaus is currently being …
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Yet another new breakthrough on solar. This one has huge implications. UCLA discovers how solar cells’ charges can last for weeks A team of UCLA chemists, for instance, have developed a way that will allow solar cells to keep their charge for weeks instead of just a few seconds like current products are capable of. …
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David Roberts’ report is about the best I have read on the issue of the existing grid and the transition to noncarbon energy. It raises most of the major relevant issues. See the SR archive for the previous piece referenced. Why wind and solar power are such a challenge for energy grids
