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Floating Solar PV on Foam with Air Bubblers
Floating solar PV power has been one of the most interesting and fun segments of the global solar power industry in the past decade. When it started popping onto the scene, it was catchy, but one wondered, was it really practical and cost effective? As it turns out, the benefits … [continued]
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Has Lake Eugenia’s blue-green algae problem finally been solved?
The chamber will oxygenate lake bed sediment and lock in phosphorus that blue-green algae needs to form, a toxic problem that has become worse in recent years.
Elon Musk’s Missed Full Self-Driving Targets Are Even Wilder Than I Remembered
There’s been a little debate going on lately about whether Tesla Full Self-Driving is “effectively” Level 4 autonomous driving or is still just a Level 2 driver-assist system. Yesterday, I shared a comment from a reader explaining that it’s actually Level 2++ now. I’ll come back to that in a … [continued]
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2100 Transition Scenarios Need A Better Population Denominator
One of the easiest ways to get 2100 wrong is to carry the 20th-century population curve forward as if it still defines the future. The world went from about 2.5 billion people in 1950 to more than 8 billion today, and that expansion shaped modern assumptions about food, energy, cities, … [continued]
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$7,000 for Rooftop Solar Permitting!? Time to Automate It
According to an analysis from Environment America and Frontier Group, permitting requirements can add a whopping $7,000 to the cost of a rooftop solar power system. $7,000?! That’s a crazy amount of extra money to add onto a solar power system just to get a permit. The good news in … [continued]
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