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A Clean, Green Way to Recycle Solar Panels

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Inside a shipping container in an industrial area of Venice, the Italian startup 9-Tech is taking a crack at a looming global problem: how to responsibly recycle the 54 million to 160 million tonnes of solar modules that are expected to reach the end of their productive lives by 2050. Recovering the materials won’t be easy. More than 1.2

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Electronically Assisted Astronomy on the Cheap

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Electronically-assisted-astronomy photographs captured with my rig: the moon [top], the sun [middle], and the Orion Nebula [bottom] David Schneider First, I purchased a used Canon T6 DSLR on eBay. My next purchase was a modified gun sight to make it easier to aim the camera. That required a solar filter, of course.

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Opinion: Why Buffett Bet A Billion On Solar: Miles Per Acre Per Year

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During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. The first eye-opener for large scale solar was the Austin Energy PPA last year that was priced at 5 cents. It really isn’t a fair fight.

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Detect Migrating Birds With a Plastic Dish and a Cheap Microphone

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You could also purchase a 16-inch-diameter one , but the 8-inch dish served me admirably. I suspect that just about any external sound card would work fine for this application, including the $34 StarTac model that I use to good effect to monitor solar flares.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. In this way, sand enables solar power to keep people warm, even during the darkest and coldest Finnish nights. Eronen says, laughing.

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EnerNOC and Tesla to collaborate on stationary energy storage

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Cheap cells made in the Gigafactory are only part of the puzzle. The distributed energy storage space already has many players offering standalone and solar-connected battery systems, so Tesla is certainly not the first to market. billion in revenues in 2020. Working with utilities, not against them.

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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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As countries transition away from fossil fuels to green sources of energy like wind and solar, there will be natural lulls in energy production due to weather conditions. Energy consumption also tends to peak during early evening hours , which is inconveniently right when solar energy output decreases.