In response to the meme here, reader Alex notes: We weren’t here 3 million years ago! How do you measure that?
I can see that you’re being snide, suggesting that scientists are simply inventing data to prove whatever they want. (more…)
This translates (literally) as “As the first country in the world: Luxembourg makes bus and train free.”
If you’re serious about reducing VMT (vehicle miles traveled), this is certainly one weapon in your arsenal. I’m sure it makes people reconsider car ownership itself.
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 of clothes from LL Bean, standing next to his super-model girlfriend, outside a tent which could serve as a venue for a dinner party for 12. That’s why the guy pictured here made me smile.
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 contain enormous–and in this case erroneous–assumptions.) (more…)
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 as 20 miles per day in Germany, depending on the season and weather, thanks to a solar charging system integrated into the body of the car. (more…)
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.
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…)
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.
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…)
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…)
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…)
