"The $21 million project was part of President Barack Obama's stimulus package. Obama and former President George W. Bush both signed executive orders for the Department of Defense to pursue alternative energy. One mandate calls for each base to be using renewable sources for 50 percent of its power by 2020."
WSLS 10
Conservation | Across The Board
It is a false premise or presumption that the basic principle of conservation is exclusive to any one of the different types of environments in which we function on a daily basis.
The effectiveness or lack thereof of how this universal principle is applied in one environment impacts all others.
Financial Conservation/Solar Energy is just one example.
Imagine, Financial Conservation/U.S. Government or Financial Conservation/Wall Street?
Friday, December 7, 2012
Why Cell Phones Are Driving Off-Grid Solar Revolution
However, there are 600 million people with cell phones that have no access to electricity. To charge cell phones, people often have to walk hours to charging stations where they can plug their phone into a car battery. While kerosene may be a very poor lighting source, it is a source of light. For cell phone charging, there is often no local option.
Simply put, charging cell phones is emerging as the the number one reason people with no electricity want solar energy."
Read more how creative entrepreneurs are making it happen @ GIGAOM
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
San Diego Zoo Goes Solar
"It's kind of a no-brainer. What took you so long?" |
Unveiled on Tuesday, an overhead canopy of solar panels allows zoo visitors to charge five electric vehicles at a time. Cantilevering out across 50 parking spots, the tree-like installation also stores electricity overnight in highly efficient lithium-polimer batteries and can feed power to the local San Diego grid on demand."
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Solar Power | Not All Roofs Are Equal
Southern-facing surfaces are prime in the northern hemisphere. |
- Orientation
- Age
- Space
- Obstructions
- Shade
GetSolar.com
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Sunday, December 2, 2012
The Few and The Proud Go Solar
"The United States Marines are already using solar panels to reduce their reliance on fuel generators, but by 2025, the few and proud hope eliminate the diesel-chugging monstrosities entirely. The Office of Naval Research has announced new partnerships with Raytheon, Battelle and Emcore to develop a transportable hybrid system that would leverage solar energy, heat and biofuel to power a Marine outpost for up to 15 days. Not only would these systems run much quieter, but they'd also reduce the need for fuel supply convoys, which are prime targets for attack in battle settings."
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More Warehouses Switch to Solar
Your Local Walmart |
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Solar Energy | Servicing Rural Communities in Haiti
"The program entailed the installation of solar
electric systems at 20 schools, a fish farm and a drip irrigation system
supporting agricultural production throughout Haiti’s Central Plateau region,
through collaboration with the Solar
Electric Light Fund (SELF), a nonprofit organization.
This project helps to improve the quality of education for more than 6,000 Haitian students by providing the electricity needed to power lights, communication systems, laptop computers and other school equipment in a remote area of the country."
Haiti Libre
This project helps to improve the quality of education for more than 6,000 Haitian students by providing the electricity needed to power lights, communication systems, laptop computers and other school equipment in a remote area of the country."
Haiti Libre
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OPEC'S Worst Nightmare: The Sun Plus Modern Technology
Dependence |
Independence |
"Qatar aims to raise the share of solar power in electricity generation to 16 percent by 2018, an official said on Saturday in a rare example of an OPEC nation embracing renewable energy.
Qatar, the world's top exporter of liquefied natural gas,
has the world's highest per capita greenhouse gas emissions. Like other OPEC
nations, it has been wary of a global shift to renewable energy, fearing it
will hit demand for oil and gas."
FC Note: The fast-rising adaptation of solar energy as highlighted throughout this blog is the game-changer that will help to relieve all consumers of a dependent, 100-year-old way of supplying energy, maintained by what is now outdated, inefficient technology.
FC Note: The fast-rising adaptation of solar energy as highlighted throughout this blog is the game-changer that will help to relieve all consumers of a dependent, 100-year-old way of supplying energy, maintained by what is now outdated, inefficient technology.
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
Solar LA - 1.5 Mil Rooftops Doubling as Generators of Clean Energy
The Perfect Marriage: Environmental Plus Financial Conservation
"Close to 1.5 million rooftops throughout Los Angeles
County could potentially be doubled as renewable energy generators. That's
according to a report released last week by UCLA's Luskin Center for
Innovation. The Los
Angeles Solar Atlas contains over 40 maps breaking down
potential solar density in cities, utility jurisdictions and political areas
like the 15 L.A. city council districts. All told, there is enough
plausible rooftop space, mostly on single family homes, to spawn over 19,000
megawatts."
KCET - Solar Focus
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Monday, November 26, 2012
Strange Solar Bedfellows -- Why?
In this case, the anomaly is not that Turner, a longtime
environmentalist and philanthropist, and Southern, owner of the nation’s three
largest greenhouse gas-contributing coal plants, are working together. It’s
that all but one of these solar projects are in the Southwest, far away from
Georgia and the Southeast where Atlanta-based Southern’s utilities operate.
This means Georgians won’t benefit directly from Southern’s
investments in solar, a non-polluting source of electricity that is fast
becoming cost-competitive with traditional sources of fuel such as coal and
natural gas. Southern-owned Georgia Power has slowly shifted away from using
coal to provide electricity, but environmentalists say the use of cleaner,
renewable sources of fuel such as solar remain a long way off in this state
because of legislative and regulatory boundaries."
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Funneling Solar Energy
"The concept is a simple one, borrowing from some very
elementary principles. For instance, everyone knows the best way to capture and
contain the most of an element or substance is with a funnel. These cones make it easier to put oil in our
cars or fill small glass shakers from a larger bag of sugar.
Now, some MIT engineers have worked out a
computational model which shows how solar energy can be more or less
funneled before it’s captured, ensuring an efficient and effective solar energy
capturing mechanism."
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Saturday, November 24, 2012
Larry Hagman - Real Life Trumps Fiction
"Larry Hagman may have played television’s most famous evil oil baron, J.R. Ewing, but in real life the “Dallas” actor was a fierce proponent of solar energy.
The actor had already installed the world’s largest residential solar array, a 94-kilowatt system, on his estate in Ojai, Calif., and served on the board of the Solar Electric Light Fund, a non-profit that brings solar systems to the developing world.
He struck a deal with German solar manufacturer SolarWorld to shoot the commercial in exchange for a donation of photovoltaic panels to the Haiti relief effort following the devastating 2010 earthquake.
'The thing is, these solar panels are manufactured domestically and can provide a lot of jobs for soldiers returning from all those wars we have fought.'"
Forbes
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
The Land of the Rising Sun Goes Solar
"According to a new report from the Japan Photovoltaic
Energy Association, domestic shipments of solar cells and modules have risen by
80% in the July-September quarter of this year. This is on the heels of the
Japanese government enacting an ambitious solar energy incentive initiative, a
feed-in tariff (known as net energy metering in California) that
aims to help support the adoption of solar energy throughout the country.
The feed-in tariff was introduced in the wake of the Fukushima
disaster of 2011, when a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear
crisis in Northern Japan. After the disaster, the government made moves to
abandon nuclear power. While moving away from nuclear energy has proven to be a
slow and laborious process, the country has been keen to aggressively replace
nuclear with other forms of alternative energy that are considered safer. Solar
energy has, thus far, become one of the country’s most favored forms of
alternative energy for this purpose."
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Solar Innovation in Arizona
"The technology generates power from sunlight by focusing energy from a field of sun-tracking mirrors called heliostats onto a central receiver. Liquid salt, which flows similar to water when melted, is circulated through the receiver, collecting the energy gathered from the sun. The heated salt is then routed to an insulated storage tank where it is stored with minimal energy losses. When electricity is to be generated, the hot salt is routed to heat exchangers to produce steam used to generate electricity in a conventional steam turbine cycle. The salt is then sent to the cold salt storage tank, ready to be reheated by the sun and reused the following day. The salt storage technology was demonstrated successfully at the U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored 10-MW Solar Two project near Barstow, California.
The Crossroads Solar Energy Project will:
- Help meet growing demand for
clean, renewable energy sources.
- Incorporate energy storage, which
provides operating stability for the electricity grid and a cost effective
way to meet Arizona’s peak electricity demand profile.
- Deliver up to 150 MW net nominal
output, producing approximately 450,000 MWh annually.
- Boost the local economy by creating up to 450 construction jobs at peak and about 45 permanent operating jobs, and also significant property tax revenues that will benefit the local community and region"
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California's Current Power Mix
FC Note:
Electricity diminishes as it travels thus it is notably expensive that California currently imports from out of state as much as 29% of what it needs to keep the lights on for a population of over 37 million.
Califorina ISO
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