Non Profit Solar Installer Helps Low Income Communities install solar panels

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From Inspired Economist

 GRID Alternatives’ mission is to empower communities in need by providing renewable energy and energy efficiency services, equipment, and training. GRID Alternatives works collaboratively with communities and local organizations to identify specific needs and to develop renewable energy solutions that are environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable.” – GRID Alternatives

Installing and supplying supplying solar power is a great business for suppliers and installers alike but poses great barrier to most people when they want to acquire cheap source of power.  A non profit organization Grid Alternatives has helped 3,700 households/families install nearly 10 gW of solar power across America helping them save $80 million in energy costs.  It has  also trained 14,000 installers and technicians




Video on Grid Alternatives;  support!

How BMW carbon fiber parts are made?

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From Clean Tecnica

This is a video on how a BMW, using carbon fiber parts are made.  This involves a lot of robotics and would not be possible in the PHL where labor is cheap.  But the processes here are amazing.  Carbon fiber represents an amazing energy savings from smelting. Carbon fiber parts are strong and light.  And being light, they save a lot of energy in cars (fuel consumption) and they save tremendous amount of energy comes recycling time.  Steel consumes a lot of energy.

Largest Energy Storage Trial launched in UK

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From Clean Tecnica

From Energy matters




The largest intelligent battery storage trial has been launched in UK by S & C Electric Europe, SDI, Younicos and Samsung onto a UK Network power substations.  The project cost is placed at $28.6 and saves $9.6 million on traditional network reenforcement systema and will store 10 megawatt hours of power.

The project is in Bedforshire in UK and will transform the electricity network in UK and will connect the intermetittent renewable energy into the electric grid (as baseload?)

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The savings from storage has been identified as Imperial College London to be $4.8 billion by 2020 based on 2 GW storage and will increase to $25 billion with 25 GW towards 2050.  However the electricity storage has presented a tremendous challenge to scientists and developers

Flying electric/solar car?

Repost from Clean Technica | May 11, 2013

A flying car?  Isnt this just within the realm of James Bond movies and scifi?

It seems more of becoming a reality.  A team of aerospace engineers from MIT are furiously developing a car that can fly and a hybrid (that can fly with gasoline and solar)  You just saw a post about a solar powered car that just flow from California to New York -  the solar impulse

The concept car is called TFX - Terrafugia (meaning escape from earth) is plug in VTOL creation

The mission of the company headed by Carl Dietrich is to develop practical flying cars.