Spain Now Running World’s First Solar Plant to Create Power at Night
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the US Department of Energy financially backing a project which will use molten salt to store and use solar energy over night. The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project is...
View ArticleThe Solar Tunnel: When High Speed Rail and Solar Power Collide (Video)
Two of the Utopianist’s favorite things collide in Belgium: High-speed rail and solar power. Yes, over two miles of solar panels have been installed atop a tunnel housing a stretch of Euro rail. The...
View ArticleIs it Worth Endangering Species to Scale Up Clean Power?
That question is more and more becoming a central one in the quest to bring renewable energy to scale. Renewable energy projects like solar power plants require lots of land — land that’s often...
View ArticleSolar Maps Reveal Exactly How Much Sun Hits Every Inch of a City
Despite their burgeoning popularity, solar panels remain something of a mythical product to many. Most folks are not really sure exactly how much power a good array would generate if they installed it...
View ArticleThe FBI to Deploy “Whisper Quiet” Smart Wind Turbines
Renewable energy is the future of power generation, and there are myriad reasons why we need to take it seriously. But the FBI is now proving that there are other less-discussed benefits to using...
View ArticleSolar Fuel Could Drastically Increase the Energy We Get From the Sun
Just one hour of sunlight could meet the whole world’s power needs for an entire year. That’s more energy than we even know what to do with, and it’s dangling right in front of our faces. Yes, we have...
View ArticleSolar Will be as Cheap as Coal in 4 Years: New Report
If the government-linked reports are to be believed, then China’s all set to double its solar capacity by the end of the year — up to 2 Gigawatts, in fact. That was (somewhat) surprising news alone....
View ArticleTransforming Solar-Powered Ice Cream Truck Hits NYC
Things just got that much tougher for all the non-transforming, non-solar-powered ice cream trucks out there. I mean, which one wins: Announcing your arrival with an annoying Casiotone rendition of...
View ArticleOccupy Rooftops Seeks to Start a Community Solar Revolution
As we’ve pointed out a number of times already, there are myriad links between the Occupy Wall Street movement and modern environmentalism. The biggest and most obvious is that our energy supply is...
View ArticleHalf of Germany can run on solar power. We can do it too
This is what can happen when citizens and government agree that it’s worth spending a bit more for clean, carbon-free power: German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of...
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