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Abstract. By burning fossil fuels we have put 3.6 trillion tons of Carbon Dioxide, CO2 in the atmosphere1 in the last 200 years – most in the last 60. This has changed the concentration of atmospheric CO2 from 250 parts per Million, ppm, to 390 ppm, an increase of approximately 35.9%. This increase of atmospheric [...]
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Seth Woody reports from the Green Inc. blog at the Times
Samsung, the Japanese conglomerate best known to Americans for its televisions and cellphones, is jumping into the American solar business.
Pacific Gas and Electric, the California utility serving much of the northern and central parts of the state, asked regulators [...]
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Solar power's incremental steps forward keep coming faster and faster, and not on a single vector: large arrays to power the grid, specific installations where wiring is inefficient or impractical, and for small devices. Cassie Rodenberg, writing at PopularMechanics.com, writes about another step forward with solar power for relatively small devices. From Solar-Powered Circuits Breakthrough [...]
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Earlier today one of my friends handed me a copy of some satire published in the New York Post, a tabloid in the tradition of the London rags, on the subject of "Climate-Gate." At about the same time, Roger Saillant, co-author of Vapor Trails, who heads the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value at Case Western [...]
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Solar Kinetics' Single-Element Stretched- Membrane Dish. 7 Meter diameter. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
We're trying to sort out if this is the same Solar Kinetics firm responsible for the Electric 7 electric vehicle design. (Images of and explanation of construction process here). Following are some images of a completed Electric 7:
More images of the 2008 Electric [...]
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Larry D. Moore gallery on WikiMedia Commons (including many images not related to energy).
Apart from its beauty - we suspect there's more to this PV panel design than an attractive layout. An image of the array, comprised of a larger number of similarly or identically constructed setups, can be found after the jump.
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Architecting a Clean, Secure, Sustainable, Non-Carbon and Non-Nuclear Energy Future
100 Gigawatts offshore wind. $300 Billion.
100 GW land based wind. $200 Billion.
50 GW solar. $325 Billion.
250 GW Clean, renewable, sustainable Energy. $825 Billion.
Save the World: Priceless
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Marketplace reported last night that "Massachusetts has launched a program that lets home and business owners who generate their own power sell it back to the electric compan" at retail prices, increasing the incentives for the installation of solar and wind energy-producing equipment, and additional incentives for conservation (i.e. additional conservation, which brings net consumption [...]
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Back in February, 2009, Business Week published my article, Green Energy: Our Future Depends on It. They even asked for a picture - which I was happy to provide. I just learned that it was picked up by other web-sites:As a News Pick by Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen's Energy Task Force,By Physics Today,By Solar Feeds [...]
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Toyota solves the micro-greenhouse effect of the sun heating a parked car, in the Prius III. The car features optional solar modules that keep the car cool when parked.
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Silicon Solar has a wider selection of Portable Solar Power Systems than we'd recalled, including some, like the flexible (in fact, rollable) panels pictured below, which are presumably fairly robust. We're not sure which models/systems can be daisy-chained - one of the principal virtues of the Solar Stik system. We hope to be able to [...]
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Wired - that is, editor Noah Schachtman - has identified what is, apparently, the largest solar array currently in the United States. President Obama recently spoke there. Where is it? Read below the jump for more.
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First Water Systems - based in Marietta, Georgia - makes AC/Solar systems for pumping, water purification and re-use. Some are designed for fixed installation, others for mobile use by disaster responders. The OutPost-4, which can easily be carried in a pickup truck or trailer, is solar-powered, and can process 4 gallons per minute - 720 [...]
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, invented by Brian Bosley and in business for about ten years, sells easily deployable solar and solar/wind generators which can be easily daisy-chained into an array. We don't think there are any other systems with these features. Chris Crosby of Solar Stik - a woman of nearly infinite patience, given the [...]
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Coal plant with carbon sequestration plan to pipe tons of carbon dioxide 70 miles to be buried 1 mile under the sandstone floor of the Atlantic.
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From the Pump Handle
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