The content committee for the MIT Energy Hackathon, November 3-5, has accepted my challenge on "Rebuilding Energy Infrastructure in the Caribbean After the Hurricanes.” With luck, an extremely knowledgeable and expert team of MIT and other … [Read more...]
Crowd Funding an Emergency Solar Electric Grid for Puerto Rico and Other Islands
Solar lights and cell phone chargers are now $1or less production costs and selling around the world for $5 or less retail. Add bicycle generators and you have independent indigenous emergency power now, day or night. AA battery to car … [Read more...]
Solar Electric Power to the People
I like direct action, positive protest that has immediate, practical, social and economic use. That's why I say, Solar IS Civil Defense - light, phone, battery can be supplied by a few square inches of solar electric panel. The solar … [Read more...]
Zero Net Energy – January 2016 edition
Greenbuild Unity Home - prefab, affordable net-zero home can be built in less than three days to LEED v4 Platinum and net zero-energy standards and with the largest collection of Cradle to Cradle (C2C) certified building products ever used … [Read more...]
Massachusetts Has Tons of Space for Solar. What We Need is Willpower.
Here's an extremely common, and extremely dumb, attack against solar power, repeated in a local op-ed in today's New Bedford Standard Times: As of today, there are more than 4,297 MW of power generation which either has come off line or … [Read more...]
Demonstrate Solar IS Civil Defense at the Boston Climate Defense Carnival
Update: This event has been cancelled as of November 30, 2015. 350 Maine, 350 Vermont, 350 Massachusetts, 350 New Hampshire & 350 Connecticut are organizing a Boston Climate Defense Carnival on Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 3:30pm … [Read more...]
#SolarisWorking! Now tell Speaker Deleo to Sun Up.
This week, bipartisan leaders in the Massachusetts Senate acted to lifted a cap on solar net metering. Net metering is the way we buy and sell the sun's energy in the Bay State (and most of the country) and it's a solid system for … [Read more...]
Recycled Solar: Double-Glazed Solar Hot Cap Cloche
I was cleaning out my storeroom the other day and came across another recycled solar device that I was fooling with a few years ago. A one liter clear plastic bottle makes a good hot cap or cloche when you cut the bottom off it. Plant a … [Read more...]
Getting to Net Zero: Cambridge, MA
For the past year, the Cambridge, MA city government has had a Getting to Net Zero Task Force studying the implications of a net zero energy building requirement. They finished the draft report on March 16, 2015 and will have an open forum … [Read more...]
Fact-Checking Baker’s Inaugural on Energy Prices
From Gov. Charlie Baker's inaugural address: There’s also a direct link between economic growth and a sustainable and affordable supply of energy. But as we begin the New Year, families and businesses across New England are being hit … [Read more...]
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