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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Photovoltaics

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 possible but asinine nonetheless.”

Imagine that you’re on some sort of campus, maybe a university, maybe a large corporation, and you’re desperate to sit outside and do your work or play online, but your device is totally discharged. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Photovoltaics

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 lamps,” apparently in the belief that a cylindrical array of solar PV is a good idea.  Does he not understand that the core of solar is the incidence of lots of photons from the sun?  Dude, at any given time, they’re coming in one and only one direction.

Worse yet, there are four fixed quadrants of solar cells, one of which will receive no direct sunlight. That’s the north-facing quadrant in northern hemisphere installations and the south-facing quadrant in southern hemisphere installations.  That’s like putting solar panels in your basement.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

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 the heads and hides of big game animals. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

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 region — less than a week after the temperature record was shattered on the Antarctic continent (when it hit 65°F ).

It was 69 degrees Fahrenheit in the Antarctic on Sunday. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Photovoltaics

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. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

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. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

 

BlackRock Inc. headquarters in New York

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 as those in coal-fired power. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

What Gandhi said here is interesting.  FWIW, most of us are not afraid that Trump is going to be here forever; we believe that through some mechanism, the United States will eventually restore some sort of rule by law.

I’m actually sadder than I am afraid. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

From this article: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended the State Department’s decision to deny NPR press credentials for his trip to Europe following his confrontation with reporter Mary Louise Kelly, stating in an interview in Kazakhstan Sunday that it sends “a perfect message about press freedoms” to the world. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

William Pendley, acting head of the BLM, appears to be headed for reappointment without any involvement from the American public.  OK, so what’s the issue?  Perry’s decades-long career as a property-rights lawyer whose focus was removing federal control of the public lands he now oversees.

From this article:

The dustup over Pendley began in July 2019, when he became acting head of the bureau—which oversees drilling, ranching, and recreation on 245 million acres of public lands, primarily in the West—and it hasn’t cleared since. A dozen Democratic senators and 91 conservation, hunting, public interest and wildlife groups have called for his ouster,

The Old West firebrand also has an inflammatory streak. He has slurred climate-change believers as “kooks” and sympathized with Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who was part of an armed standoff with federal agents after he refused to pay the bureau’s grazing fees.

“As someone who has spent his career advocating for the widespread sale of public lands, Mr. Pendley is the last person who should be running the BLM,” Democratic senator Michael Bennet of Colorado said. “Coloradans place enormous value on our public lands—not just from a conservation perspective, but because they serve as the backbone of our economy.”

Those who say that this administration “ruins everything it touches” are referring to issues like this, i.e., one in which the damage will remain long after Trump leaves office. Last week’s news item involving Trump’s awarding overt racist/misogynist Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom was another good example. From here on into perpetuity, that distinction will mean precisely zero.

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