We come across lots of different concepts that invoke renewable energy to charge off-grid devices–most of which are solar, though one sees an occasional use of micro-wind or even micro-hydro. Normally, ads depict an affluent white hiker sporting $400 worth …
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Right-Wing Extremism Joins Academic Dishonesty at Hillsdale College
Anti-government, Trump-supporting Hillsdale College is ostensibly conducting a one-question survey of Facebook: What are your biggest concerns about socialism taking root in America? (I use the word “ostensibly” because real surveys from academically honest institutions don’t use loaded questions that …
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German Startup Aims to Sell “Self-Charging” Electric Car Covered in Solar Panels
From GreenTech Media: After raising nearly $60 million in a recent 50-day crowdfunding campaign, Munich-based Sono Motors expects its €25,500 ($27,600) electric car, the Sion, to benefit from a range extension from about 2 miles per day to as much …
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Solar PV Workstation
Promote of concept shown here: Productivity just got greener! Made from eco-friendly materials and powered by the Sun, our solar workstations help create a new place to connect. File this one under the category: “renewable energy concept that is theoretically …
The Future of Street Lights?
We have a reader in Adana, Turkey who loves to submit renewable energy concepts, but I’m beginning to think he’s pulling my leg, as each one is so obviously defective. Here’s a prize-winner. He calls this “the future of street …
Bad News….For the Nation’s Most Heartless
Those who revel in the suffering and death of elephants, rhinos, lions, and tigers are licking their own wounds today, as the Trump administration disbanded its advisory board created to help boost trophy hunting and relax federal rules for importing …
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Antarctic Warming Trend “Like Nothing We Have Ever Seen”
It’s a sunny 66°F at 2GreenEnergy “headquarters” right now, here in Santa Barbara County, CA, which is about average for this time of year. Not so in the Antarctic, where a research station recorded a new record-high temperature for the …
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Solar PV as Art
The guy promoting the device here writes: Solar cells capture up to 40 percent more energy when they can track the sun across the sky, but conventional, motorized trackers are too heavy and bulky for pitched rooftops and vehicle surfaces.
Trump’s Actions Maximize Chaos, Fear, Suffering
Commenting on the meme here, frequent contributor Glenn Doty writes: The only purpose of any action that this administration seems to be is to maximize chaos, fear, and suffering.
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“Climate Risk Is Investment Risk”–Coming from an Authoritative Source
BlackRock, the world’s largest investment management corporation with nearly $7 trillion under management, has recently committed to make investment decisions with environmental sustainability as a core goal, and begin to exit certain investments that “present a high sustainability-related risk,” such …
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