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?
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Palm Springs With a Coastline?
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Solar Energy with 350 Days of Sunshine
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Monday, January 7, 2013
New York | Installing Solar Energy Systems Gets a Tax Break
“The New York
State Department of Taxation and Finance said Friday, you could get a tax break
when installing solar energy equipment in a commercial building.
Beginning
Jan. 1, thanks to legislation and Governor Andrew Cuomo’s support, the state’s
4 percent sales tax won’t be charged on the sale or installation of commercial
solar energy systems equipment.
The new law
also allows cities and counties to provide a similar exemption from their local
sales taxes.”
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Saturday, January 5, 2013
City of Sebastopol Now Requires Solar Installations on All New Business and Residential Construction or Major Remodeling
"The Sebastopol City Council, with the controversial CVS Pharmacy project still casting a shadow over downtown, is adding a chain store ban and solar energy requirements as possible ways to preserve the community’s identity and shape new development."
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Friday, January 4, 2013
The Swanson Effect | Pricing Sunshine
“Solar energy currently provides only a quarter of a percent
of the planet’s electricity supply, but the industry is growing at staggering
speed. Underlying this growth is a phenomenon that solar’s supporters call
Swanson’s law, in imitation of Moore’s law of transistor cost. Moore’s law
suggests that the size of transistors (and also their cost) halves every 18
months or so. Swanson’s law, named after Richard Swanson, the founder of
SunPower, a big American solar-cell manufacturer, suggests that the cost of the
photovoltaic cells needed to generate solar power falls by 20% with each
doubling of global manufacturing capacity. The upshot is that the modules used
to make solar-power plants now cost less than a dollar per watt of capacity.
This means that in sunny regions such as California, photovoltaic power could
already compete without subsidy with the more expensive parts of the
traditional power market. Moreover, technological developments that have been
proved in the laboratory but have not yet moved into the factory mean Swanson’s
law still has many years to run.”
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Solar Power: City of Lake Havasu Takes Control of Electricity Costs for Next 20 Years -- With the always-rising costs of monopolized fossil fuel resources, will traditional utilities ever be in the position to offer the same?
Sunrise at Lake Havasu |
The project,
including the solar energy panels and metal beams on the city property, is not
owned by the city. It’s owned by Lake Havasu City Solar, LLC, which was set up
by and financially backed by LG International.
The city will
be buying energy from Lake Havasu City Solar, LLC at a fixed cost which is
under the cost of what the city pays UniSource and the rate will increase no
more than two percent each year for 20 years, city officials have said.
City
officials anticipate UniSource rates increasing more than two percent each year
and since they locked in the rate with Lake Havasu City Solar, they expect to
experience significant savings.
Nexsen
rattled off the benefits of the city’s involvement in the solar energy deal.
‘The utility
cost savings are an improvement, there are no upfront costs to the taxpayer and
local jobs were created,’ Nexsen said.”
Spend Less. Create More...Jobs!
Spend Less. Create More...Jobs!
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
Ford Fusion Energi Plug-In Hybrid Rated at 100 mpg
Ford Fusion Energi |
The Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid has earned an EPA
fuel economy rating equivalent to 100 mpg combined, according to Ford.
The four-door sedan shares a powertrain with the
company’s C-Max
Energi crossover, which went on sale earlier this year also with a 100
mpg-e rating. The mpg-e measurement was developed to compare the efficiency of
vehicles that use different types of energy.”
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Solar Energy on the Rise in Germany
“The recent solar boom means the alternative form of
energy now reaches 8 million homes in Germany, a 45 percent increase compared
to 2011, the German Solar Industry Association (BSW) said on Tuesday.
‘Germany is now reaping the fruits of its efforts in
solar technology,’ said the BSW’s chief executive, Carsten Körnig. ‘Its share of the power supply has quadrupled
in just three years. At the same time, the price of a new solar power system
installation has halved.’”
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Warren Buffett | Wall Street's Golden Boy to Build World's Largest Solar Energy Project
“MidAmerican Energy Holdings, a subsidiary of Mr
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway investment company, has struck a deal with
SunPower to acquire and build two projects in California’s Antelope Valley.
The deal, which will see MidAmerican pay between $2bn to
$2.5bn, marks the third time in little over a year that Mr Buffett has ploughed
cash into solar energy.
He last year created a unit within Mid American to
support an increasing number of solar and wind investments.”
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The Telegraph
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
California Sets Winter Record for Solar Energy Production
"California has set a new record for the amount of solar energy it generates
during the winter season. According to data from CalSO, the state reported
1,029 megawatts of solar energy being introduce into the California power grid.
Moreover, the state came close to generating more than 1 gigawatt of solar
energy on the Winter Solstice, which is the day when the state receives its
least amount of sunlight. While the new record pales in comparison to the sheer
amount of energy that the state needs, it does show that California continues
to make significant progress in its solar energy endeavors."
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The Permanent Advantage of Solar Power Stations: Free Fuel
"Rebranding is always a tricky exercise, but
for one field of technology 2013 will be the year when its proponents need to
bite the bullet and do it. That field is alternative energy. The word
“alternative”, with its connotations of hand-wringing greenery and a need for
taxpayer subsidy, has to go. And in 2013 it will. “Renewable” power will start
to be seen as normal."
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Monday, December 24, 2012
750MW of Solar Energy in Riverside County to Power 200,000 Homes
As part of the array, a
14.5-mile generation tie-in line and 2-acre switch yard connecting with
Southern California Edison’s Colorado River Substation will be built. During
peak construction, McCoy Solar believes that the project will hire 600 workers
and up to 20 workers during operations.
Output from the proposed
project is estimated to be enough to power around 200,000 Californian
households.”
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Coal Mining Museum Saves Money With Solar Energy
The Big Pit National Coal Mining Museum in Wales |
‘Coal is such an important
part of Wales’ heritage, and yet green energy will play a major part in its
future. A solar powered coal-mining museum is a fantastic way to celebrate this
national journey.’”
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Off-Grid Solutions | Clean Energy for Un-Electrified People
Solar Panel Installation in Ecuador |
The
Bangladesh story is particularly exciting because Grameen has single handedly
shattered the energy ‘axioms’ on which the international policy community has
relied for decades: ‘Renewable energy is too expensive.’ Wrong!
‘Even if solar makes sense, the poor can’t afford it or they won’t pay.’ Wrong.
‘The grid will come regardless so off-grid, decentralized energy is a waste
of time, money and effort.’ Wrong, wrong, wrong. What Bangladesh does
prove is that Carl Pope is
right: deploying solar makes the most sense for off-grid areas where the
economics are compelling and the need is great.”
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