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@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2025-07-24 09:51:03

Solar Panels in My Garden - Find out why I have solar panels on my garden wall as well as on my roof! #podcast #solar #garden

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-07-18 16:14:08

♻️ Why recycling solar panels is harder than you might think − an electrical engineer explains
theconversation.com/why-recycl

@brichapman@mastodon.social
2025-07-22 17:08:02

Homeowner sees negative energy bill after leasing solar panels - a glimpse into the future of sustainable energy. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-07-13 11:00:31

"Why recycling solar panels is harder than you might think"
#Recycling #SolarPower

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-07-20 21:46:16

Sometimes it’s the best choice to build it in house.
Sometimes it’s the best choice to code a little closer to the metal.
Sometimes it’s a good idea to learn to forage and install your own solar panels.
None of these mean that you don’t live in a society.

The discovery of a massive amount of lithium under the Salton Sea could make the U.S. lithium independent.
The metal is key for batteries in electric vehicles and solar panels.
But the area is also a delicate ecosystem.
We go to southern California to hear what hangs in the balance of the ballooning lithium industry,
and also how we extract other crucial substances  
– such as sand, copper and iron
– and turn them into semiconductors, circuitry and other …

@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-07-13 15:52:34

Solar cells on cattle holding pens seems like a great idea! Probably tons of buildings and farms that would be fine with solar cells on top.
I'm no (food) scientist but I am a lot more confident that it doesn't pose a risk to the food source. But I'm less confident of growing crops under solar cells or solar cells floating on aquatic farms. Likely need significant maintenance over the years to prevent leaching and it's always hard for politicians to fix old instead of …

Workers tend to herbs grown beneath solar panels in a photovoltaic plantation in Lihua, Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China, on July 21, 2024.
Cattle are kept in pens beneath solar-panel arrays at an agrivoltaic farm in Mengcheng County, Bozhou, Anhui province, China, on December 23, 2023.
Floating solar panels stretch across an aquatic farm built on land that subsided after extensive coal mining, in Suixi County, Anhui province, China, on April 28, 2025.
@scott@carfree.city
2025-07-19 23:36:30

join the DSA SF social housing reading group!!
next Tuesday 7/22 7pm in person
#sfPol

What could social housing look like in San Francisco? And how do we get there?
A reading and discussion of:
- Budget & Legislative Analyst's Report
- Housing for the 99% from the SF Berniecrats
Tuesday, 7/22
7pm - 8pm
DSA SF Office, 1916 McAllister
DSA SF Social Housing Reading Group co-hosted by the Ecosocialist Working Group and the Electoral Board
Background: art of a solarpunk looking San Francisco with wind turbines and solar panels and roof gardens on new apartment buildings, with…
@timelfen@assemblag.es
2025-06-19 16:03:07

Limn Issue 12: Climate's Interiors is out now online and in print.
Read anywhere with the link below.
limn.press/issue/climates-inte

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2025-07-07 19:51:03

Solar Panels in My Garden - Find out why I have solar panels on my garden wall as well as on my roof! #podcast #solar #garden

@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2025-06-11 11:53:04

Balkonkraftwerk is the German success story of plug-in solar energy (one or two solar panels, inverter with 🔌), which can be self-installed by apartment dwellers and has democratised solar energy. There are now officially over one million of these installations in Germany.
(cartoon ©️ Til Mette)

Cartoon drawing of four persons in red shirts with ties on a balcony, singing ‘wir fahr’n, fahr’n, fahr’n auf der Autobahn’. Tagline: Comeback als ‘Balkonkraftwerk’
@Gord1i@fosstodon.org
2025-05-17 05:30:00

Heh, guess when I got my #solar panels installed?
One advantage of living in a very sunny place, recouping the investment is happening very quickly! #SouthAfrica
(R1000 is about $50)

Listing of Internet banking transactions detailing electricity purchases. Up until March, there were roughly R1000 every 10 days, while in March and April only a single transaction of R1000 each
@brichapman@mastodon.social
2025-07-20 23:37:13

Lower your electricity bills by going solar! EnergySage explains how pairing solar panels with battery storage and selling excess energy can lead to significant savings. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

The US commerce department has launched two national security probes that could lead to tariffs on drones and a raw material used for chips and solar panels.
In notices published on Monday evening, the commerce department said it would examine imports of unmanned aircraft systems and their parts and components,
and would separately carry out a study of polysilicon supply chains.
US officials would study the impact of foreign subsidies, “predatory trade practices”
a…

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-07-06 17:00:35

"Solar farms and sheep grazing show how farming and clean energy can share land"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-07-12 11:13:58

Solarpower has won, not because it is alternative or woke, but because of economy. And it will keep winning with still improving panels, becoming thinner and easy to use everywhere, battery technology is also still improving.
newyorker.com/news/annals-of…

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-07-12 23:01:19

Goodbye rooftop solar panels - the future of clean energy could be in lakes and reservoirs thanks to this Indian innovation - United States
europesays.com/us/60728/

@arXiv_csIT_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-03 09:08:50

A Hybrid Ensemble Learning Framework for Image-Based Solar Panel Classification
Vivek Tetarwal, Sandeep Kumar
arxiv.org/abs/2507.01778

@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-14 10:59:37

Do solar panels lower the transformation of light into heat? If so now many km² would we need to offset the rising temperature?

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-06-11 12:42:20

£13.2bn fund to fix draughty homes and install heat pumps and solar panels.
Nothing else that I can see on reduction of energy demand.
And here is the money being wasted:
'£30bn in investment in nuclear power, about half on the Sizewell C reactor'
Small tidal schemes in the Mersey, Severn and other estuaries would give a better, and safer, approach to "always on" energy supply.

@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-04 13:36:40

It is time to make use of solar panels. My office faces south so lots of sun. I hooked up the solar panels in the window. The bonus to charging the batteries is that I don't have to pay hydro for that!

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-05-02 13:11:34

🌱 Should farm fields be used for crops or solar? Research suggests both
#energy

@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-16 10:07:21

Enhancing Autonomous Manipulator Control with Human-in-loop for Uncertain Assembly Environments
Ashutosh Mishra, Shreya Santra, Hazal Gozbasi, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida
arxiv.org/abs/2507.11006

@richardtol@mastodon.social
2025-05-09 21:08:23

Women pay more for the installation of solar panels sciencedirect.com/science/arti @…

@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2025-07-07 10:08:22

More Belgian (Flemish?) households with solar panels, batteries or electric vehicles will be able to benefit from the flexibility they can offer the energy system as energy retailers Bolt and Trevion collaborate with VPP operator Powernaut.
powernaut.io/press/powernaut-a

I think it's really underappreciated that solar panels are now about as cheap per unit area as mass-produced building materials like wood, siding, shingles/shakes, etc.
The Republican reconciliation bill aims to make solar expensive again in the US through tariffs and taxes.
bsky…

@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social
2025-06-07 13:30:58

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
The new Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite is crazy accurate. It can measure ocean altimetry to a mm, imaging internal waves and small sub eddies (rotating mixing zones). Tiny changes in height happen when water swirls (try it in a sink) with greater height at the edges due to centripetal force. These may be even more important for temperature &a…

image/jpeg a gold satellite with extended solar panels is shown in orbit around the earth. Image from NASA.
image/jpeg a visualization of currents off the eastern coast of North America shows hundreds of interconnected swirling eddies spinning in the Atlantic Ocean. Image from NASA.
@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-06-04 18:00:01

"Gila River Tribes Intend to Float Solar Panels on a Reservoir. Could the Technology Help the Colorado River?"
#US #USA #America

@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2025-05-29 12:59:31

Huh, UK is down to ~1.5GW of gas elec generation at the moment, I'm not sure if that's our lowest ever, but I bet it's damn close (and exporting over 2GW) - windy day and moderate solar (and I guess the rain washed all the solar panels...)

Loser: U.S. factories
When Democrats in 2022 created and expanded a slew of federal tax breaks for electric vehicles, solar panels, wind turbines, batteries,
they designed them to encourage companies to use components made in the United States.
That spurred a manufacturing boom, including solar-panel glass recyclers in Georgia and electric-vehicle assembly lines in Kentucky.
The new law could derail many of those factories.
The old tax credit for solar power, for…

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-05-30 19:00:14

"Composite material keeps solar panels cool, boosting longevity by more than 200%"
#Solar #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-06-05 17:00:12

"Solar panels' shade helps boost Colorado grassland productivity in dry years"
#US #USA #America #Colorado

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-07-02 12:00:37

"Britons could soon install balcony solar panels in flats and rental homes"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #SolarPower #Energy

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-07-02 17:01:08

"In Georgia, sheep on a solar farm is not a baaad idea"
#US #USA #America #Georgia

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-07-11 16:00:03

"A heat wave hit New England’s grid. Clean energy saved the day."
#US #USA #America #Renewables