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White Cliffs' temperatures in summer hover around the mid-40 degrees Celsius mark so in 1979, the remote, tiny town of White Cliffs in the vast far-west of New South Wales was chosen as the site of a ground-breaking Australian National University (ANU) project to show the sun could power a remote town.
At the time it was built in the 1980s, there was no rooftop solar, and certainly there were no solar mobile phone chargers — there were no mobile phones.
Bill Finney, 87, was the sole operator of the power station from 1985 until 1994.
Located about 250 kilomtres east of Broken Hill, the $1.9 million plant generated electricity from 1982 until 2005, using two different technologies.
Initially, the solar thermal power station concentrated the sun's energy to produce steam from water which was used to drive a steam engine/generator system.
In 1997 it was transformed using the latest photovoltaic (PV) technology, with the cells directly converting the concentrated sunlight to electricity.
The project was shut down in 2005. Reference
Peng Zhou, right, postdoctoral research fellow, and Yuyang Pan, first year PhD student, working in the Molecular Bean Epitaxy Lab in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Friday, October 14, 2022. Navid is a member of Professor Zetian Mi’s research group.
In the lab they are growing Gallium nitride (GaN) based nanostructures by molecular beam epitaxy.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Ishtiaque Navid, PhD student, working in the Molecular Bean Epitaxy Lab in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Friday, October 14, 2022. Navid and Pan are members of Professor Zetian Mi’s research group. In the background is first year PhD student Yuyang Pan.
In the lab they are growing Gallium nitride (GaN) based nanostructures by molecular beam epitaxy.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
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The tower was part of the Sierra Generating Station of the Sun Tower Project by eSolar. The page in the previous link describes the process, but put simply mirrors on the ground reflect sun on the receiver, where steam is generated to drive a turbine that generates electricity. (See adjacent photos)
My first Entergy bill with the solar running!
I thought that they might apply those extra kWh to my natural gas, alas no. Still, I've started a sizable pool of 250 kWh for the upcoming summer! I imagine I'll have a good bit more padding by the time summer hits, assuming the weather cooperates.
You can see on the solar generation stats I added that we've had some less-than-stellar weather in New Orleans over the past month. Still, happy with the numbers.
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Detail of the solar energy lighting the semiconductor in the experiment by Peng Zhou and members of Zetian Mi’s research group. The bubbles are water being turned into gases. For this experiment all involved had to wear protective dark glasses. When the glasses were put in front of the camera lens, the experiment appeared green. This more clearly shows the semiconductor and the intensity of the sunlight produced by the magnifying glass.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
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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).
For more information visit: alliancebioversityciat.org/stories/first-solar-powered-bu...
Credit: ©2016CIAT/Georgina Smith
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IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 04 2013: Tower 2 and its heliostats at sunrise at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility. Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 170,000 heliostat mirrors spread over 4,000 hectares, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to drive specially adapted steam turbines The project, developed by Bechtel, will cost $2.2 billion and be the largest solar farm in the world (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
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).
For more information visit: alliancebioversityciat.org/stories/first-solar-powered-bu...
Credit: ©2016CIAT/Georgina Smith
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IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 04 2013: Tower 2 and its heliostats at sunrise at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility. Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 170,000 heliostat mirrors spread over 4,000 hectares, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to drive specially adapted steam turbines The project, developed by Bechtel, will cost $2.2 billion and be the largest solar farm in the world (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
Today we are facing an energy consumption society; and electricity, coal, oil etc. such energy resource is becoming tenser and tenser. The entire world's energy which is in store, according to estimates of experts, is only able to be used for another 50 years, and now our country and the entire community has regarded the energy saving as the first-class event.
Conserving energy for future generations to apply to the human race development is really an emergency now. So under that demands, the use of solar energy has made the future a little brighter. We are happy to realize that solar power is the key to solve the problem of resource shortage.
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On Monday, September 9, 2013 Wright Hennepin Electric Cooperative held a grand opening and ribbon cutting for Minnesota's first community solar project at their headquarters in Rockford, MN
on the grounds of Richmond Power and Light, Richmond, Indiana. Learn more at www.rp-l.com/solarpower.php
Dr. Robin Buruchara, Director of the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) presenting a certificate.
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).
For more information visit: alliancebioversityciat.org/stories/first-solar-powered-bu...
Credit: ©2016CIAT/Georgina Smith
Please credit accordingly and leave a comment when you use a CIAT photo.
For more info: ciat-comunicaciones@cgiar.org
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White Cliffs' temperatures in summer hover around the mid-40 degrees Celsius mark so in 1979, the remote, tiny town of White Cliffs in the vast far-west of New South Wales was chosen as the site of a ground-breaking Australian National University (ANU) project to show the sun could power a remote town.
At the time it was built in the 1980s, there was no rooftop solar, and certainly there were no solar mobile phone chargers — there were no mobile phones.
Bill Finney, 87, was the sole operator of the power station from 1985 until 1994.
Located about 250 kilomtres east of Broken Hill, the $1.9 million plant generated electricity from 1982 until 2005, using two different technologies.
Initially, the solar thermal power station concentrated the sun's energy to produce steam from water which was used to drive a steam engine/generator system.
In 1997 it was transformed using the latest photovoltaic (PV) technology, with the cells directly converting the concentrated sunlight to electricity.
The project was shut down in 2005. Reference
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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
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Ishtiaque Navid, PhD student, working in the Molecular Bean Epitaxy Lab in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Friday, October 14, 2022. Navid is a member of Professor Zetian Mi’s research group.
In the lab they are growing Gallium nitride (GaN) based nanostructures by molecular beam epitaxy.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Premier Horgan visited the Lower Nicola Indian Band School, where 330 solar panels are installed on the roof of the gymnasium. This is BC’s largest community-owned solar panel system, consisting of 330 panels of photovoltaic panels that generate up to 85.8 kilowatts of electricity. The Premier also took questions from students during his visit.
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).
For more information visit: alliancebioversityciat.org/stories/first-solar-powered-bu...
Credit: ©2016CIAT/Georgina Smith
Please credit accordingly and leave a comment when you use a CIAT photo.
For more info: ciat-comunicaciones@cgiar.org