History of Solar
April 25, 1954: Bell Labs Demonstrates the First Practical Silicon Solar Cell Solar cells, which convert sunlight into electrical current, had their beginnings more than a hundred years ago, though…
The tremendous growth in the U.S. solar industry is helping to pave the way to a cleaner, more sustainable energy future.
Renewables are INSANITY
Texas frozen wind power – outages ensue, electricity now at unheard of $9000 per megawatt-hour. There’s a saying in the lone star state “Don’t Mess with Texas” which actually started…
Illinois’ legislative lockdown will leave solar industry waiting until 2021
As surging coronavirus cases prompt leaders to cancel a November legislative session, solar developers and advocates fear irreparable harm to the industry. Hopes for new Illinois energy legislation this year…
Building Of A Fusion Power Plant
US Physicists Urge The Building Of A Fusion Power Plant Written by Adrian ChoU.S. fusion scientists, notorious for squabbling over which projects to fund with their field’s limited budget, have…
Ohio wants to ban Solar & Wind
The bill’s sponsors voted last year to gut state clean energy standards while subsidizing nuclear and coal bailouts. An Ohio bill introduced last month would halt most large solar or…
Green Prince of Darkness
Green Prince Of Darkness…. Exposed Today's Guest, November 28, 2020About the author: Joseph A Olson, PE: Co-founder of Principia Scientific Intl. and co-author of the ‘Slaying the Sky Dragon –…
Mystery Flaw Of Solar Panels
‘Real Engineering’ video describes the inherent but unreported flaw of solar panels – they degrade in efficiency as soon as the leave the factory. At the outset, a typical solar…
Emerging Technology in Electricity
Could these technologies power the world of tomorrow? Since the dawn of the industrial age, the world has been powered by a relatively small set of technologies. The 20th century was…
Rolling Blackouts
Why are they turning off MY electricity? Rolling Blackouts Q: What are rolling blackouts? A: Rolling blackouts are a rationing scheme utilities resort to when electricity demand outstrips supply, which can…
Is Green Really Green
Today we have a new Green Prince poised to plunge the western world into a self imposed darkness. This Prince first creates the fiction that Carbon causes climate change, then…
sunset view from Inarimae Kofun or ancient tomb in Yokohama, taken with ILCE-7M2 + Tamron SP 500mm F8.0 (reflex mirror lens)
Grand Solar Minimum
grand solar minimum What does it mean for life on earth The Sun has entered a period of reduced activity, known as a solar minimum, which happens on a cyclical…
Solar Breakthrough
Perovskite Solar Breakthrough Each hour, the sun sends 430 quintillion Joules of energy our way, more than the 410 quintillion Joules that humans consume in a whole year. With the…
$110T Renewable Energy Stimulus Package
$110 Trillion Renewables Stimulus Package Could Create 50 Million Jobs The past few weeks of current events have led us to unprecedented levels of job and capital destruction, decimated consumer…
Batteries for Grid Backup
Distributed energy platform provider AutoGrid has been developing “co-optimisation” capabilities that will allow residential battery storage deployed to mitigate power outages to continue participating in market opportunities such as joining…
Micro-Energy-Grids
All across N. America, sustainable microgrids are emerging as a vital tool in the fight against climate change and increasingly common natural disasters. In the wake of hurricanes, earthquakes and…
Night Solar….Hmmm?!!
What if solar cells worked at night? That's no joke, according to Jeremy Munday, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis. In fact, a specially…
Energy Consumption by Country
2020 Few people can argue that electricity isn’t one of our world’s most greatest inventions. After all, electricity allows up to light up our homes without the need for candles…
Texas and Renewable Energy
2019 Texas Produced More Renewable Energy Than Coal Last year Texas generated more energy from renewable sources than from coal, according to data from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.Texas…
SOLAR VS COAL
Solar, Wind Are Now Cheaper Than Coal In Most Of The World The world’s premiere authority on global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (or IPCC for short), announced…
Renewables Lead Peak Energy
It can be hard to get your head around just how much energy the world uses. Expressed in terms of oil, it was equivalent to almost 14 billion metric tons. …
Solar Tax Credit Extension
Tax credit extension return on investments The U.S. solar energy industry will add an additional 113,000 jobs and generate $87 billion in investment over the next decade if U.S.…
Energy Efficiency is the Global Economy’s “Hidden Fuel”
The global demand for power is rising. Although the increasing prevalence of solar farms and lithium-ion batteries is making energy expansion greener, the need for ever-increasing volumes of electricity remains…
Solar Energy
Solar is Renewable Energy Source Solar is an original renewable energy source as the sun gives us heat and light. The tremendous growth in the U.S. solar industry is helping…