100% WWS Part 2: Jacobson’s Latest Study Covers Storage, Transmission, & More

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:06:12 +0000

pumped hydro energy storageJacobson’s latest study carefully uses with current technologies and currently available resources for storage and transmission. The latest evidence is that there are much cheaper alternatives than his team models, underselling the potential

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100% WWS Part 1: Jacobson’s New Study Displaces 99.7% Fossil Energy With Massive Savings

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:05:34 +0000

100% renewables for 143 countries covering 99.7% of global energy carbon emissions is very inexpensive compared to business as usual in Jacobson’s latest

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Six Flags Discovery Kingdom To Be 80% Powered By Solar Carport

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 22:48:54 +0000

screen shot from videoBorrego Solar Systems and sPower worked with the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom this year to manifest the first theme park on the West Coast powered by solar energy. In this case, the solar will account for 80% of the park’s energy usage. One difference in this theme park’s solar installation from other similar installations is that it will be powered by one of the most substantial solar carport installations in the country

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Heliogen Is Bill Gates’ Latest Venture That Is Only Good For Oil & Gas – Part 2

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 15:05:38 +0000

Heliogen concentrating solar arrayThe first article covered the first two points, showing that tying this to, for example, a single reasonably sized cement plant would require roughly 4,000 times the space, and that decoupling energy creation from demand would provide substantially more flexibility and higher value. Now we’ll step through the remaining three problems

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Heliogen Is Bill Gates’ Latest Venture That Is Only Good For Oil & Gas – Part 1

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 20:45:58 +0000

Heliogen concentrating solar arrayBill Gates seems to love to invest in things that aren’t going to make much of a difference to climate change but that are good for the fossil fuel industry. The latest is Heliogen, a company which uses machine learning to make solar ovens hotter and more reliable

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Array Technologies Selected For One Of The Largest Bifacial Solar Projects In Australia

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 21:00:49 +0000

https://arraytechinc.com/array-technologies-selected-for-one-of-the-largest-bifacial-solar-projects-in-australia/Bifacial solar cells and panels are moving more seriously into play now thanks to cost drops and efficiency improvements. A bifacial solar panel is essentially a solar panel that can collect energy from the front side and the rear side (a normal monofacial panel only collects energy from one side). Array Technologies boosts that technology even further with solar tracking technology, capturing much more sunlight than a normal solar array

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Solar, Storage, & EV Charging: The Holy Trinity Of Home Energy Management At #SPI2019

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 16:26:18 +0000

Solar Power International landed in Salt Lake City, Utah this year and CleanTechnica was on the ground meeting with the change makers, the disruptors, the doers, the movers, and the shakers. We’ve been diving into some of the companies we talked with, but having covered SPI for several years now, we wanted to highlight one of the newer arrivals at the show: electric vehicles

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