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Arlington County Presents Innovative Solar-Powered Art
June 7 - September 1, 2007
CO2LED is designed to promote the use of alternative energy sources and recycling, as part of Arlington's environmental initiative, FreshAIRE (Arlington Initiative to Reduce Emissions). At each site, the artists will erect hundreds of solar-powered LEDs (light-emitting diodes) secured to rods topped with reused plastic bottles. They will create a soft, undulating cloud of light
Arlington County presents an environmental public artwork in three locations in Arlington County, created by artists Jack Sanders, Robert Gay, and Butch Anthony. The installations, entitled CO2LED, will be erected between June 7th and June 15 at the traffic island at Ft. Myer Drive, North Lynn Street, and North Fairfax Drive, just north of the Meade Street Bridge over Arlington Boulevard (Route 50) at the southern entrance to Rosslyn, near the Iwo Jima memorial. For more information go to www.arlingtonarts.org/cultural_affairs/publicart.htm
New solar Kenya’s first solar-powered “bubble” drier, improves bean quality and commercial value, retaining nutritious qualities before they are turned into a porridge flour. It has been donated to farmers and partners shown in a training session here at ICIPE campus in Nairobi on December 9th, as part of a project “Making Value Chains Work for Food and Nutrition Security of Vulnerable Populations in East Africa,” which aims to reach around five million small holder farmers in Uganda and Kenya benefiting 50,000 rural and urban consumers.
The project is supported by BMZ and GIZ; The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health and CGIAR donors. It is a joint project between the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance initiative and DAPA-Linking Farmers to Markets. The project is led by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), in collaboration with The University of Hohenheim (UHOH), University of Göttingen (UGOE), Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) and Ugandan National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO).
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Aside from being ideal conditions for windsurfing … what do wind, waves, and sun all have in common? They are all sources of renewable energy and each will be showcased at OMSI in a new permanent, bilingual exhibit officially opening January 17, 2013. Renewable Energy/ Energía Renovable invites OMSI visitors to learn about emerging sources of energy as well as consider the tradeoffs involved in using any energy source. Interactive exhibit pieces demonstrate how alternative technologies can be integrated into the existing power grid and how visitors’ individual energy choices affect the environment.
Photo by Gia Goodrich
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One of the priorities of the Government of Uzbekistan is to establish and develop rural health clinics, as part of its national policy on primary health care.
In response, UNDP helped to outfit four rural health clinics to become energy-efficient, including the use of solar energy, improving the reliability of power and heating.
The majority of rural health clinics in Uzbekistan face problems with interruptions to power and heating which negatively impact the quality of medical services.
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Photo courtesy of UNDP in Uzbekistan
Dana Shearer, West Virginia Team Member; Andrew Perla, Virginia Team; Thomas Nielsen, Foundation for the Great Park Director; Taylor Donato, Solar Decathlon Student Team Member
Pupils with sunflowers seeds.
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Esenaman once used to be one of the major watering spots for the Garagum livestock; one of Turkmenistan’s most lucrative economic sectors. Now, all that the rusty steel pipes leading into the reservoir of water serve as is a reminder of its past. Climate change and harsh weather conditions dried up the devices used to collect and store water. Shepherds and herders brought their livestock elsewhere to graze, putting pressure on those land areas.
Now a solar-powered pump and renovated containment systems will provide water for the livestock to return.
Photos: Sergey Mirzoyev/ UNDP Turkmenistan
Boarding school, Armenia
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Esenaman once used to be one of the major watering spots for the Garagum livestock; one of Turkmenistan’s most lucrative economic sectors. Now, all that the rusty steel pipes leading into the reservoir of water serve as is a reminder of its past. Climate change and harsh weather conditions dried up the devices used to collect and store water. Shepherds and herders brought their livestock elsewhere to graze, putting pressure on those land areas.
Now a solar-powered pump and renovated containment systems will provide water for the livestock to return.
Photos: Sergey Mirzoyev/ UNDP Turkmenistan
Gov. Inslee shakes hands with Lind Ritzville Middle School student body president Raegan Snider after inaugurating the largest solar panel farm in the state of Washington.
The solar array in Lind is situated on 200 acres, is the result of a partnership between Avista Utilities and Strata Solar. Strata Solar developed, owns, and operates the solar facility in Lind, which is within Avista’s service area. Avista has a power purchase agreement with Strata Solar to provide the energy generated from the solar array to Avista customers.
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Infographics spread to Suomen Kuvalehti done by Outi Kainiemi with Katri Merikallio. Photography done by Marjo Tynkkynen.
Baltimore City has created the solar powered water wheel, a 100,000-pound trash-collecting device that harness solar power and the current. Debris is funneled into the device and then onto a conveyor belt that deposits it into a dumpster, which is emptied once full.
The panels feeding the heat pump of the clinic in Crosne ( outskirts of Paris, France) are made of simple black rubber tubes. They are laid on the roof and filled with a 30% glycol solution below atmospheric pressure. Together with the heat pumps they enable year-round production of hot water with outstanding efficiency !
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Picked this figurine up a few weeks ago. The little solar powered spot light doesn't last the entire night, but it's still kind of neat out by the herb garden.
Demo roofs showing highly efficient latest generation solar photovoltaic panels. If you have a south facing slanted roof and enough roof space, you could provide up to 50% or more of your houses energy needs through these panels. These cost of these solar panels is coming down every year, although they're still some-what expensive and out of average person's budget.
- Taken at 4:20 PM on October 27, 2007 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu
A solar-powered night light I made recently. It uses:
(a) The Joule Thief circuit from here:
www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/joulethief
(b) A Super Capacitor (100 Farads !)
(c) A flexible solar cell (ebay)
(d) A PNP transistor to hold the joule thief off, while light is falling on the solar cell.
These huts were off the grid - using solar power and rainwater. (They do bring in propane gas and ship out all waste)
Day 3 of Overland Track
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Esenaman once used to be one of the major watering spots for the Garagum livestock; one of Turkmenistan’s most lucrative economic sectors. Now, all that the rusty steel pipes leading into the reservoir of water serve as is a reminder of its past. Climate change and harsh weather conditions dried up the devices used to collect and store water. Shepherds and herders brought their livestock elsewhere to graze, putting pressure on those land areas.
Now a solar-powered pump and renovated containment systems will provide water for the livestock to return.
Photos: Sergey Mirzoyev/ UNDP Turkmenistan
Katsushige Nakamura, President of Mitaka Kohk and prolific inventor, counts among his innovations a solar-powered system generating electricity and water. Watch the video.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Jean-François Arrou-Vignod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
Mosman Council is trialling a new solar-powered compactor waste bin. The system automatically compacts rubbish at the point of disposal, dramatically increasing capacity by 5 times the footprint of ordinary bins. It is hoped the new bin will reduce the incidences of litter overflow and waste ending up in our waterways, particularly over the summer months. The increased capacity reduces collection trips and can cut related fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions by 80%.
Safe, easy to use, and designed to keep out pests, the BigBelly has already proven its worth in a variety of environments and will come into its own by keeping out birds and other pests.
You can view this little wonder at Balmoral, where it was installed today.
Strange looking installation in the Mojave Desert. This is in California, but sits on the California/Nevada border just outside Las Vegas. I noticed a really bright reflection from about 75 miles away, as we flew over it I could see it was a circular solar power installation. It's called the Ivanpah Solar Thermal Plant, and once fully operational it will deploy 170,000 heliostat mirrors focusing solar energy on boilers located on centralized solar power towers.
A solar-powered night light I made recently. It uses:
(a) The Joule Thief circuit from here:
www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/joulethief
(b) A Super Capacitor (100 Farads !)
(c) A flexible solar cell (ebay)
(d) A PNP transistor to hold the joule thief off, while light is falling on the solar cell.
I built part of the circuit in "free space", as it was reasonably simple. The joule thief is on strip-board because I had made that a while ago just to see how well it works independently.
Gov. Jay Inslee poses with the ASB leaders from Lind Ritzville Middle School as they celebrate the completion of the state's largest new solar array.
The solar array in Lind is situated on 200 acres, is the result of a partnership between Avista Utilities and Strata Solar. Strata Solar developed, owns, and operates the solar facility in Lind, which is within Avista’s service area. Avista has a power purchase agreement with Strata Solar to provide the energy generated from the solar array to Avista customers.
Driving through Antelope Valley, I was shocked and dismayed to find a huge new solar power project on prime habitat for California poppies, right next to the California Poppy Reserve! It's located where I have taken many of my best poppy shots (example, Explored).
Some research when I got home shows this is the world's largest solar panel farm. It was approved in spite of findings in the EIR that it would have a "substantial adverse impact on a scenic vista" and "degrade the existing visual character or quality of the site and its surroundings."
It was apparently more convenient for the power brokers to locate this project west of Palmdale, instead of east of the city, where there is little more than sagebrush. So they scraped this prime poppy area lifeless and erected 3.3 square miles of metal and glass structures on bare dirt. The lack of natural plant cover has already contributed to dust storms affecting the health of residents of the vicinity.
This photo looking southeast shows just a small portion of the ginormous solar panel farm. It stretches another 2-3 miles to the north, where it abuts a wind farm. In that area, some prime Joshua Tree habitat was destroyed (photo).
Apparently government funds for alternative energy rushed this project through. It created some 360 jobs (paid by taxpayers, no doubt) and will only help about 75,000 homes get power. The damage to one of California's most beautiful, unspoiled scenic vistas, though, is permanent. Where was the outcry from environmentalists? I never heard it. There are other places than HERE to experiment with solar power. And from what I saw on a map, the damage already done is just part of a greater plan for more solar farms in the western Antelope Valley.
The photo shows only a small portion of this monstrosity behind chain link and barbed wire where visitors were once free to walk. The hills behind are the California Poppy Reserve! The destroyed land is where I had hiked and shot many poppy photos in the past (example, example). Because of this "power grab," added to the ugly wind farm on the slopes of the Tehachapis, the expansive views of poppies from this area northward have been ruined forever. I'm glad I photographed it when I did (example).
Bold Nebraska and Pipeline Fighters installed solar panels in the path of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, on Diana and "Stix" Steskal's Prairierose Farm near Atkinson, NE on Saturday, Sept. 16.
Donate $25 now to put solar in the path of KXL: bit.ly/solarxl
This second Solar XL project installation follows the first solar panels that were installed on the farm of Jim and Chris Carlson on the KXL pipeline route. Details for the 3rd Solar XL installation site announced soon!
The families partnered with Solar XL project sponsors Bold Nebraska, 350.org, Indigenous Environmental Network, CREDO, and Oil Change International to put renewable energy directly in the pipeline’s path. Solar XL underscores the need to center solutions to climate change while rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline and resisting the expansion of the fossil fuel industry.
DETAILS: boldnebraska.org/solarxl
Photos: Alex Matzke / Bold Nebraska