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In November 2014 we installed a 4200 W Solaflex tracking array of photovoltaics. Photos in this album document it through the year.
On the day depicted here, just before the winter solstice, we generated 21.1 kWhr of power... not bad!
(The birds are Blue Jays...)
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
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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).
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 !
What's wrong with this picture? A solar-powered parking meter might not like snow-covered solar collector panels or frozen buttons on the control panel. (Overheard in the Mayor's office) "I've gotten many, many complaints. We had to give a day's grace when all the meters froze after the freezing rain here. Aren't they supposed to be guaranteed to -40 C? What's the name of that company that installed those new $4M. parking meters? The solar powered ones . . . yeah. Call them up. I'll do the talking." So the company that installed these solar-powered parking meters has to service them and squirt antifreeze on the buttons which seem to want to freeze solid in freezing rain. 'Ooopsie!'
U Khway Pu : “There has been deforestation all my life. When I was a child, it took me one day by cow cart to get to the large forest. Now it would take me 15-16 days. The village has grown so more land is needed for farms. More wood is needed for building. We used to cut the trees and burn the wood for fertiliser. But that has stopped now as there is no forest left near here.”
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
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.
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Cutting the ribbon to inaugurate the state's largest solar panel farm.
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.
The last sunflower was set in motion in Tin Ujević elementary school in Zagreb.
Founded by Hrvatski Telekom and implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the HRK 400,000 project "Solar Sunflowers" is intended to educate school children about renewable energy sources through the installation of ten small solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.
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Michael Hall enters Gansu Province on his quest to document the impacts and opportunities of climate change.
Is what it says on his badge. Love the solar power panel on his handlebars.
Posing with his iPhone in front of the recently uncovered portal of the Devonshire tunnel, soon to be reopened as part of the Two Tunnels project.
The front of the tunnel is still blocked with the access chamber, built for access when the entrance was buried under tons of earth.
Gov. Jay Inslee poses with leaders from Strata Solar 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.
U.S. Consul General Peter Haas interacts with representatives of U.S. solar power companies at the Inauguration of 600MW Solar Power generation facility at Charanka, Gujarat on April 19, 2012.
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This is a project consisting on a photovoltaic plant of 34 MW divided into four phases using different technologies: one axis tracker, fixed structure and adaptable solar structures in summer and winter.
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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.
U.S. Consul General Peter Haas interacts with representatives of U.S. solar power companies at the Inauguration of 600MW Solar Power generation facility at Charanka, Gujarat on April 19, 2012
More details on Twitter: @USAndMumbai
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.
Tabakoro village, Mali: Women learn to read, write and count at evening classes in their local school. The classes were set up after the Mali Folk centre installed solar panels on the roof of the school which now generate electricity in the evenings.
Pupils together plant a sunflower seeds.
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Members of Tesla Energy install solar panels on Menlo School's Creative Arts Center. Photo by Pete Zivkov.
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.
I haven't charged my cellphone in a wall outlet since christmas eve.
I got this solar powered charger, with a built in battery.
It workes by beeing placed in the window, were the sun can charge it. It is then charged during the day, and in the evening I can plug it into my cell phone. Next morning my phone is fully charged.
I really like the idea of beeing able to charge my phone, in a CO2 neutral way.
Lumenhaus - Virginia Tech Project
Lumanhaus self sustaining and fully self reliant home built buy Virginia Tech
Solar panels and battery powering speaker system for showing of Age of Stupid, International day of climate action, Daylesford, 24 Oct 2009. Photo by Jack Gilding, copyright Hepburn Wind.
All the materials on this home were salvaged and recycled. The roof is blue ceramic tile. It has solar power and is right on the Nehalem River in Elsie Oregon. Pure Paradise!
Planet Solar, an organization promoting solar power, is conducting a circumnavigation aboard Turanor, a 101-foot, solar-powered catamaran with more than 5,000 square feet of solar cells. Photos by Gunnar Knechtel and courtesy of Planet Solar. To see more marine photography, go to www.madmariner.com. Para ver estas fotos en nuestro sitio en español, visite www.marineroloco.com