I’m in Las Vegas Tuesday and Wednesday for Solar Power International (SPI), one of the two largest shows (along with Intersolar) on solar energy internationally. In addition to meeting an important client, I look forward to milling around the enormity …
Category: Photovoltaics
From Guest Blogger Meghan Belnap: Five Ways Solar Energy Can Improve Your Business Productivity
In many countries of the world, solar-based power systems have become a lucrative business. You may be thinking that solar power is highly infeasible because it costs too much and is too overelaborate for the small amount of power the …
From Guest Blogger Justin Jersey: Three Tips to Install Solar Power by Specialists
Solar energy and its use have become extremely popular. It is a latest trend to install a high quality and energy efficient system that is solar power. It is possible both in houses and businesses. The companies that is committed …
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Solar PV Has a Remarkable Characteristic: It’s Actually Happening
Over the years, we’ve had many hundreds of comments from people who claim that solar and wind can’t scale to replace fossil fuels. This is amusing, since all these people need to do to disconfirm their beliefs is open their …
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Religious Freedom and Solar Energy: A Combination You Probably Weren’t Expecting To Encounter
Without question, the protections we Americans enjoy under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution have been used in some strange ways over the years. Most recently, we’ve seen the free exercise of religion used to defend certain people’s right …
Intersolar Show Boasts a Decent Amount of Exuberance
I feel like a giddy child gushing the way I do about how cool the Intersolar show was. But here’s an example I hope you’ll enjoy, a brass band wailing on the steps of the Moscone Center—at breakfast time. What …
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A Rare Bit of Whimsy at Intersolar
At least 99% everything one sees at the huge renewable energy trade shows like Intersolar is product and service offerings intended to be completely serious and practical, i.e., a more cost-effective approach to solving a certain problem that has ever existed before. The …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Renewable Energy Hardware
Question: What do you suppose these screws are, pictured left? Hint: though they come in different sizes and shapes, these are approximately six feet long. Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: There are three main methods of anchoring …
Another Great Concept in Solar Energy on Display at Intersolar
Trying to learn about everything at Intersolar in the day-and-half I spent there is like trying to see everything at the Metropolitan Art Museum or the Louvre in that brief period of time: a really bad idea. The three enormous …
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Greetings from the 2016 Intersolar Show
I’m in one of my (and everybody’s) favorite cities, San Francisco, for the Intersolar show. It’s hard to overstate how robust and impressive this event has become over the years, as human civilization continues to recognize the value of powering …
