Solar bike path
A prototype will be built in Holland next year and will power street lights, maybe even houses. Via the Freeway Blogger who emails: Cool idea, though I’m not sure how riding on glass will work, especially if it rains. Or…
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
Category Solar power
Solar powered bee hives
Say what? But wait, it makes sense. Solar-powered fans on hives mean that workers bees no longer need to be in the hive fanning their wings to cool things off in the summer. Instead, they can be out collecting pollen.…
Preparing California’s power grid for one-third renewable energy by 2020
(My latest for CAIVN. While California is a leader on renewable energy, the same process of upgrading the grid is happening in most states) Renewable energy is variable in nature. Solar and wind power, the two primary ways of creating…
Solar Roadways
“An intelligent pavement that could generate power and pay for itself” without using petroleum in asphalt, that’s what a solar roadway could be.
Sahara Forest Project. Concentrated solar and seawater greenhouses
The hugely visionary Sahara Forest Project, a collaboration between Norway and Jordan, is about to become reality. It will desalinate water from the Red Sea using solar power, and will also use the incoming water to cool greenhouses so crops…