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Global #internet Satellites
Mar 04 2018 08:35 PM | eds in Green Living
Traditional communications satellites operate at an altitude of about . . . 22,000 miles. Satellites in low-earth trajectories operate (LEO), . . . 200 to 1,200 miles above Earth, and orbit it roughly every . . . 90 minutes. The LEO satellites will ne...
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Chicago: #microgrid Cluster
Mar 03 2018 02:10 PM | eds in Green Living
ComEd Wins Approval for the . . . 1st utility-scale microgrid cluster in the nation, a . . . $25 million project, expected to demonstrate, . . . an eventual retooling of today’s centralized electric system, into a . . . "Grid-of-Microgrids....
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#rubbish
Mar 01 2018 03:45 PM | eds in Green Living
Stop! . . . Think about what your doing?
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#renewables: Could Meet 80% Of Us Demand
Feb 28 2018 02:30 PM | eds in Green Living
Miami: Wind and solar power could meet . . . 80% of US demand for electricity, . . . as long as improvements are made in, . . . transmission, and storage, researchers said. Until a few years ago, . . . these renewable energy sources were thought, . ....
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India: To Buy 10,000 Electric Cars
Feb 28 2018 01:45 PM | eds in Green Living
India's Government-owned Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), . . . has announced that it will procure . . . 10,000 electric cars through a global tender, . . . to supply them to the government of Andhra Pradesh. EESL has already given order...
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Arctic: #climate Change
Feb 26 2018 01:55 PM | eds in Green Living
The Arctic is changing. . . . Temperatures are increasing twice as fast as the global average, and . . . sea ice is retreating quicker than predicted. Warmer temperatures, and declining sea ice, . . . pulls foreign animals, and plants to the Arctic, ....
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#tesla Semi Trucks: Payback 1.5 Years
Feb 25 2018 02:20 AM | eds in Green Living
DHL thinks that, the period of time, . . . that it takes to pay off the difference in initial costs, . . . as compared to a conventional diesel semi truck, . . . before net savings kick in, would be under . . . 1.5 years, based on cost savings on: . ....
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The #sustainable Power Of Women
Feb 22 2018 03:35 PM | eds in Green Living
How do you get sustainable energy solutions, to more than . . . 2,000,000,people in the most remote areas ? . . . And how do you make sure the solutions are really used? The answer is as brilliant as it is simple: . . . appeal to the power of women. A...
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#plastic Water Bottles
Feb 22 2018 02:45 PM | eds in Green Living
64% of bottled water sold in the US, . . . comes from municipal supplies, and can cost . . . 2,000 times more than what we pay for at the tap, and . . . 4 times more than what we pay for gasoline!. Municipalities pay upwards of . . . $100 mil...
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#climate Change Leads To Uk Flooding
Feb 20 2018 11:15 PM | eds in Green Living
5.2 million properties in England are at risk of flooding, and . . . increases in the frequency of intense bouts of flooding, . . . are expected across England, . . . due to changes in the country’s climate, . . . warns the nation’s Environment Agency....
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Filter Makes Polluted #water Drinkable
Feb 20 2018 10:55 PM | eds in Green Living
Humans, . . . can live longer without food, . . . than they can without water Australia’s, . . . Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, (CSIRO) . . . announced a new form of graphene, . . . that can filter polluted water, . ....
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California: #battery Revenue Stacking
Feb 19 2018 03:10 PM | eds in Green Living
The value of a front-of-meter battery energy storage system in California, . . . could double, or even treble, . . . by adding more than one revenue stream to a project. The rule making proposal also adheres to . . . 3 guiding principles: . . . . . ....
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Con Edison: Tesla Batteries?
Feb 19 2018 02:25 PM | eds in Green Living
“Stacking” battery storage uses, . . . to capture the benefits from a number of value streams: . . . . . . Transmission Capacity, . . . . . . Distribution Capacity, . . . . . . Spin, . . . . . . Energy, . . . . . . Frequency Regulation, and . . . . . ....
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Australia: "stunned" By Low #renewable...
Feb 17 2018 11:10 AM | eds in Green Living
Powershop, owned by New Zealand’s biggest utility Meridian Energy, . . . had been seeking around . . . 300GWh of wind, and solar capacity, but, because of the low prices, it has signed up for nearly . . . 800GWh, and the PPAs last until 2030. 2-17-201...
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Florida: #renewables
Feb 17 2018 10:15 AM | eds in Green Living
NextEra Energy Inc. is a major American electricity generator, with . . . 47 GW of capacity, it's driving renewables growth through: . . . . . . corporate PPAs, . . . . . . wholesale sales, or . . . . . . within its regulated power utility in Flori...
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Germany: Large-Scale #battery Storage
Feb 16 2018 07:55 PM | eds in Green Living
Germany, has more than . . . 50,000 storage projects, and now have a . . . 1 MW+ lithium-ion battery, . . . in the heart of the remote community of Bruck, . . . located in the German state of Bavaria . . . to provide grid stabilization, for the . . ....
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Usa: Market Barriers Removed For #energy Storage
Feb 16 2018 06:30 PM | eds in Green Living
U.S.A. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), . . . have removed all market barriers to electric storage. This means operators can dispatch power, . . . from multiple storage systems, . . . including batteries. The decision could see a fall in...
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‘Demand Flexibility’ Renewables Could Save Bill...
Feb 15 2018 02:35 PM | eds in Green Living
‘Demand flexibility,' . . . is Rocky Mountain Institute’s (RMI), term for the capability of: . . . . . . water heaters, . . . . . . air conditioners, . . . . . . plug-in electric vehicles, and . . . . . . other loads, . . . to provide a massive set...
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Experimental #dwelling's Green Environment
Feb 15 2018 02:25 AM | eds in Green Living
The home is built with interlocking structural panels and can be disassembled. . . . The furniture was built to interlock and morph, . . . from table and benches, . . . into a disabled-accessible bed. https://www.youtube....eature=youtu.be 2-14-2018...
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Australia: Buys Another Big #battery
Feb 14 2018 01:15 PM | eds in Green Living
Tesla, fresh from the success of its newly opened big battery in South Australia, . . . has joined 18 other groups, . . . competing for the right to build another big battery, . . . this time in the Northern Territory. The government-owned utility Ter...
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Running Out Of Drinking #water
Feb 11 2018 02:15 PM | eds in Green Living
All living things need water? Humans can live longer without food, . . . then they can without water? Cape Town, South African, . . . is the first major city to face the threat of . . . running out of drinking water. Despite covering about 70% of th...
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Will #microgrids Change Civilization?
Feb 09 2018 05:25 PM | eds in Green Living
“I would say, . . . the microgrid should be an integral part of city planning departments. . . . As they go through the permitting of development, . . . they should really look at the energy aspect of it, as well,” https://www.youtube....h?v=S6bHmlqKec...
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No Paris Agreement = No Trade Agreement
Feb 06 2018 12:00 AM | eds in Green Living
French foreign affairs minister Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, . . . told his country’s parliament that . . . “The US knows what to expect,” and . . . that if the US does not rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, . . . there can be no trade deal. 2-6-2018 Sourc...
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India: $21 Billion Budget For #solar
Feb 03 2018 02:40 PM | eds in Green Living
The scheme will have 4 components: . . . . . . 10,000-mw solar plants on barren lands, and . . . . . . incentivising discoms to buy produced electricity, . . . . . . 17.5 lakh solar pumps distributed, . . . . . . solarising exisiting pumps of 7250-mw...
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Chile: #coal
Feb 02 2018 03:15 PM | eds in Green Living
When France, or the UK, phase out Coal, . . . it's fair to point out, . . . that they don't use very much any way, But, when Chile does it, that's . . . "the beginning of the end of coal," because, It currently gets between . . . 3...
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