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Light From Soccer Rather than Solar

By AlexPosted on November 28, 2015Cat renewable energyLeave a comment
When a soccer ball gets kicked it has kinetic energy and that can potentially be used... ...to light a lamp. We can light that lamp with a solar panel and that's easy. There are solar lamps all round the world. Another thing that's all round the world is soccer. Watch the short video to see… Read More »

Oceans as Solar Panels

By AlexPosted on April 19, 2015April 19, 2015Cat renewable energyLeave a comment
It's been a long time since I have heard a peep about OTEC - Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion. How it works is simple, it uses the temperature difference between warm shallow water and the low temperatures in deep water. The limitation of this approach is that we go through a turbine run by steam so… Read More »

Power From Waves

By AlexPosted on March 24, 2015March 24, 2015Cat renewable energy1 Comment
I love the high tech in Solar but I really appreciate the simplicity of Wind turbines and Wave turbines. Here is a nice pilot project I came across being trialled just off the Scottish coast. North sea oil probably cost the Wave and Tidal power industries a couple of decades in delays. Now that we… Read More »

The Dark Side of Green

By AlexPosted on March 22, 2015Cat renewable energyLeave a comment
Wind power got an early start on solar energy. The technology was simpler and the engineering was easy. So the turbines sprouted in hill fields and farms and then it got close to homes. That's where the trouble started and where this film comes in... https://youtu.be/JiCQabGuKFk Read More »

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