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This Engineer’s Solar Panels Are Breaking Efficiency Records

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The show highlighted rooftop solar panels in Germany, explaining that the panels generated electricity to power the buildings and even earned the owners money by letting them sell extra energy back to the electricity company. Invented in 1983, PERCs are used today in nearly 90 percent of solar panels on the market.

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Letting in the Light

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Gerhardt had joined with Ed Benjamin of the Light Electric Vehicle Association (LEVA) to offer training programs—and certification— to aspiring ebike mechanics. Ten years later, 11 TEVA of NC members, representing 1 out of every 10 people in the chapter, had followed Gerhardt into becoming Certified Light EV Technical instructors.

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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

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2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. This article, by researchers at PARC and the University of Washington, is one possible answer.

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Ford, Volkswagen, and GM Explore EV-Powered Houses

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These V2H/V2G-enabled vehicles offer some three to 10 days powering the fridge and lights in case the power goes down. In case of power outage at home, the DC pins in the charger can send juice back into the house, keeping the lights on. A side benefit could be plugging in appliances to the car while camping rough.

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Sustainable Weather Balloon Wins Student a $10,000 Scholarship

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Amon Schumann’s radiosonde for weather balloons is equipped with a solar-powered battery and GPS. Lynn Bowlby Schumann built a coin-size, solar-powered radiosonde that weighs 4.8 The scholarship is administered on behalf of IEEE Educational Activities and is payable over four years of undergraduate university study.

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SpaceX’s first Jupiter launch a step closer as NASA begins assembling ‘Europa Clipper’

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Our spacecraft – with solar arrays spanning the length of a basketball court – has officially entered its assembly stage @NASAJPL. The instrument collects ultraviolet light, then separates the wavelengths of that light to help determine the composition of the moon’s surface and gases in the atmosphere. It’s all coming together.

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EV gateway

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For GEVA, the center has provided needed space for chapter meetings, as well as larger space for National Drive Electric Week (NDEW) events. These are guys who were doing solar back in the Eighties.” “I’d My goal at the time was to drive it to work 10 miles away, at the Department of Physics at the University of Missouri.