The Green New Deal for Public Housing Act (these comments come from the draft https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/ocasio-cortez.house.gov/files/OCASNY_053_xml.pdf but the actual bill has now been filed at … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – November 7, 2019
Net Zero plant-filled Singapore pavilion for Dubai’s 2020 World … [Read more...]
What To Do After the Climate Strike
Fridays for the Future (https://www.fridaysforfuture.org) - the Friday Climate Strikes continue October 2 there will be a Global Solar Yatra (https://www.ggsy.in) with 1 million students in over 70 countries building their own solar lights … [Read more...]
Agrophotovoltaics, Agriphotovoltaics, Solar Sharing
Fraunhofer Institute in Germany has been doing “agrophotovoltaics” studies for the last few years, the concept of producing both crops and solar power on the same land. Their 2018 study results are available here: … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – September 8, 2019
How urban farms could solve future food problems https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2019/6/21/how-urban-farms-could-solve-future-food-problems Tenth of an acre permaculture … [Read more...]
Zero Net Energy – July 23, 2019
Zero-energy demonstration project in Beijing made from pre-fab timber … [Read more...]
How Do You Pay for the Green New Deal: Cost of Fuel
I did some back of the envelope estimates of the cost of the fossil fuels we use in a year. The source of these figures is the USA DOE Energy Information Agency https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php But any mistakes in arithmetic are … [Read more...]
Grid-scale Battery: The Tesla System in Australia
Remember when Elon Musk offered to build a grid-scale battery for Southern Australia in "100 days or it’s free"? He made good on his bet, installing it on time for the cost of $66 million in December of 2017. According to a report on its … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – May 17, 2019
Singapore Airlines reinventing airplane food with produce from a vertical farm https://www.newsweek.com/singapore-airlines-aerofarm-1376378 Agritech … [Read more...]
Why isn’t job growth the first thing climate activists mention?
Please note that the Baker administration during its first term saw solar job losses of up to 3000 and that the last year has seen MA solar job growth down 11.4%. These job losses are almost certainly due to Governor Baker's refusal to … [Read more...]
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