Tag: solar thermal
More Utilities, Governments, and Private Citizens Are Adopting Solar Than Ever Before
Residential rooftop photovoltaic (PV) installations have tripled over the past ten years. With so many organizations and individuals adopting solar, it is now growing faster than any power source in history — the industry is constructing a gigawatt’s worth of solar panels every 15 hours. That’s more or less what … [continued]
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Trump’s Fossil Fuel Fantasy Wilts Under Balcony Solar Pressure
Plug-in balcony solar systems make it easy for homeowners and renters to install their own solar panels and offset the cost of electricity from the grid.
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The Electrified Future Is Already Here. Canada Just Needs to Build It
This transcript, lightly edited, is a recorded conversation with a Canadian citizens action group where I walked through a practical, systems-level view of Canada’s decarbonization pathway, grounded in technologies that already work at scale. I focused on what is deployable now, not hypothetical breakthroughs, and explored everything from transmission and … [continued]
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Why Molecular Solar Thermal Is Great Chemistry And Bad Energy Hype
Every few years, a chemistry paper wanders out of the lab, passes through a university press office, gets dressed up by a science news site, and lands on social media as if humanity is one strained molecule away from solving energy storage. The latest example is Molecular Solar Thermal storage, … [continued]
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Here Comes Concentrating Solar Power To Decarbonize Industrial Heat
The US concentrating solar power startup GlassPoint has its sights set on ripe solar markets in the US Southwest as well as southern Europe, the Middle East, and South America.
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