Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Hawaii Getting 52-Megawatt-Hour Tesla Powerpack System (Hint: That’s a Very BIG Battery)
February 17th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Wow! As far as I can tell, Japan’s Hokkaido Battery Storage Project is the largest battery bank in the world. This new one in Hawaii will be #2. Via: Pacific Business News: Tesla Energy, a division of California serial entrepreneur Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors, will […]
Petrofascism: The Koch Brothers’ Dirty War on Solar Power
February 16th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Via: Rolling Stone: After decades of false starts, solar power in America is finally poised for its breakthrough moment. The price of solar panels has dropped by more than 80 percent since President Obama took office, and the industry is beginning to compete with coal […]
Entergy Says Indian Point Nuclear Plant Leak Isn’t Safety Risk
February 8th, 2016Mmm hmm. Via: Bloomberg: Entergy Corp. said elevated levels of radioactive material found in groundwater at the 2,000-megawatt Indian Point nuclear power facility north of New York City don’t pose a threat to public safety. Increased levels of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, were found in three monitoring wells out of several dozen at […]
Steorn: “If This Is All Some Mad Ploy It Is Quickly Running Out Of Road”
February 1st, 2016Several years after their humiliating failure to demonstrate anything at all resembling free energy technology, Steorn now has a couple of Orbo products for sale. There’s a mobile device USB charger and a basic mobile phone. No external power needed, according to Steorn. After watching this latest chapter in the bizarre story of Steorn unfold […]
‘Exascale’ Wind Turbines
February 1st, 2016Via: Engadget: The US Department of Energy’s plan to generate 20 percent of the nation’s electrical power from wind by 2030 is ambitious, to say the least. To pull it off, the turbines will need to be located offshore, where winds are steadier and stronger. However, putting wind turbines in the ocean is also far […]
Official Projections for Solar Adoption May be Much Too Conservative
January 29th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Via: FastCompany: If solar power prices fall in line with other technologies, we could see continued price-drops of 10% a year. That’s according to an historical analysis of 53 technologies that finds a distinct pattern in how major innovations perform over time. If so, the […]
France to Pave 1000km of Roads with Solar Panels
January 29th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — 😯 Via: Treehugger: Over the next five years, France will install some 621 miles (1,000km) of solar roadway using Colas’ Wattway solar pavement. … No, this is not the crowdfunded solar road project that blew up the internet a few years ago, but is a […]
Orison Battery: Plug and Play Home Energy Storage
January 25th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Wow! Pretty cool, but, questions, questions… * How does it know when your solar system is making excess power? Current clamp? Inverter coms? Other? * How, specifically, does it deal with grid failures (islanding)? In other news, over in Germany, SMA just teased their new […]
Ecotricity: A More Solar Friendly Electricity Retailer in New Zealand
January 25th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Do you live in New Zealand? Do you have a grid-tie solar power system? and/or Do you own an electric car? Check out Ecotricity. Time-of-use tariffs mean that the price of your electricity drops dramatically at night, in other words, when your solar system isn’t […]
Oil Breaks Below $27, Down Over 5%
January 20th, 2016S&P500 October 2014 low is taken out intraday. — S&P500 leaning over, real ugly. Through all recent weekly supports now. If anyone at the PPT is awake at the switch… This is it. —- USO bids $8 — This move is nuts. Crude Oil Feb 16 (CLG16.NYM) -NY Mercantile $26.86 Down $1.60(5.62%) 11:07AM EST — […]
