
2025-07-24 09:51:03
♻️ Why recycling solar panels is harder than you might think − an electrical engineer explains
https://theconversation.com/why-recycling-solar-panels-is-harder-than-you-might-think-an-electrical-engineer-explains-25…
Homeowner sees negative energy bill after leasing solar panels - a glimpse into the future of sustainable energy. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate
"Why recycling solar panels is harder than you might think"
#Recycling #SolarPower
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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 …
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 …
join the DSA SF social housing reading group!!
next Tuesday 7/22 7pm in person
#sfPol
Limn Issue 12: Climate's Interiors is out now online and in print.
Read anywhere with the link below.
https://limn.press/issue/climates-interiors/
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)
https://www.…
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)
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…
"Solar farms and sheep grazing show how farming and clean energy can share land"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
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.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of…
Goodbye rooftop solar panels - the future of clean energy could be in lakes and reservoirs thanks to this Indian innovation - United States
https://www.europesays.com/us/60728/
A Hybrid Ensemble Learning Framework for Image-Based Solar Panel Classification
Vivek Tetarwal, Sandeep Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01778 https://
Do solar panels lower the transformation of light into heat? If so now many km² would we need to offset the rising temperature?
£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.
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!
🌱 Should farm fields be used for crops or solar? Research suggests both
#energy
Enhancing Autonomous Manipulator Control with Human-in-loop for Uncertain Assembly Environments
Ashutosh Mishra, Shreya Santra, Hazal Gozbasi, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11006
Women pay more for the installation of solar panels https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325003834 @…
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.
https://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.
https://bsky…
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…
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…
"Composite material keeps solar panels cool, boosting longevity by more than 200%"
#Solar #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
"Britons could soon install balcony solar panels in flats and rental homes"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #SolarPower #Energy
"A heat wave hit New England’s grid. Clean energy saved the day."
#US #USA #America #Renewables