Solar Roadways has raised $1,884,633 in six weeks from Earth Day to now
on a goal of $1,000,000 in indiegogo
(which was already
a record for most contributors with 36,000 people at $1.5 million).
Yes, to all those who have asked me, I think it could work.
Add solar roadways to rooftop solar and solar farms and wind,
and
the EPA’s new CO2 rule (which doesn’t even do much about coal for years
and does nothing about about “natural” gas)
will seem like a quaint baby step in a few years after this happens: Continue reading
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The Third Solar Age –Michael Noll
LTE in the VDT today. -jsq
For millennia humans gazed into the sky and marveled at birds sailing through the air. While some imagined a day when we would be able to fly, others said it could not be done. Likewise the idea of infinite, clean energy might seem unattainable to some, but the progress we have seen in recent years is astonishing.
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Making this a green campus –Dr. Michael G. Noll @ SAVE 2013-11-15
Dr. Noll remarked on the rain falling and said of the solar canopy:
It’s multipurpose, it provides shade, it provides shelter, and it provides renewable energy, so that makes it really awesome.
He offered as story about events and world population at those times:
- 1 billion in 1783: the first hot air balloon in 1783 in Paris, France
- 2 billion in 1903: Orville and Wilbur Wright’s first flight
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1969: Apollo 11 landed on the moon when Dr. Noll was 8 years old
- 1973: Oil crisis
- 4 billion in 1977: Jimmy Carter installed first solar panels on White House
- 1981: Ronald Reagan took down those solar panels
- 7 billion now: Accelerating climate change
He said we’re entering a second solar age,
the first one being the fossilized solar power of fossil fuels.
He mentioned the solar powered long flights of the
Solar Impulse
airplane as an example of hope, and an example of accelerating change.
Then you know what we are capable of, what we can do.
He concluded: Continue reading