BlogMickey.com has learned that Walt Disney World plans to expand its solar-powered trash cans far beyond EPCOT. The smart cans and recycling bins are heading to all four theme parks, both water parks, and Disney Springs, with the rollout stretching through the rest of the year. This follows the EPCOT World Showcase rollout we reported […]
The solar-powered smart cans at EPCOT have moved beyond their original test home in the Germany Pavilion. While visiting EPCOT today, we noticed that the trash cans that were piloted back in late 2024, are being rolled out around World Showcase. Walt Disney World has also added solar-powered recycling cans to the mix. Here’s a […]
“The magical thinkers defending wind, solar, batteries, and EVs encounter immediate, blistering pushback from general observers who follow the pro-con arguments. ‘The EV guy’ could hardly respond to the flood of criticisms toward his half-baked arguments.”
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The window to claim a 30% tax credit on your solar panel project is closing July 4th, which means you’ve got just one month left to safe harbor your project and preserve your eligibility – keep reading to find out how.
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Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach on X, my personal blog is here.) Well, I had some further insights and questions about the issue of sunshine hours that I discussed…
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As balcony solar systems gain traction across Europe and parts of the United States, a Calgary-based coalition is pushing for regulatory changes to make small, plug-in solar systems easier to adopt in Canada.
Inspections are revealing growing failures in modern glass solar panels as manufacturers respond to increasing demand for larger, thinner, and lighter panels.
Battery energy storage specialist ELM MicroGrid has spent more than two decades building a nationwide energy storage and utility infrastructure businesses. Now, the company is bringing that expertise home with the installation of a new battery energy storage system at a solar microgrid project in Peoria, IL.
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“Not in my backyard” is the rallying cry of citizens everywhere resisting projects proposed for their locality. Whether it’s affordable housing, a waste treatment plant, or a new data center, they may recognize the benefit of the activity. They just don’t want it near them. And the roots of that resistance differ from place to place. When it comes to the ongoing transition from fossil fuels…
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach on X, my personal blog is here) For the usual unknown reasons that are so common in my life, I got to thinking about…
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A new bill extending home and community solar incentive programs has passed both houses of the Connecticut Senate, and just needs Governor Ned Lamont’s signature to make it into law. It’s taken us a while to parse through it, but one thing is clear: batteries are the big winners.
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One of these dazzling lighting options will help give your fence a glow-up.
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On today’s exciting episode of _Quick Charge_ , we’re exploring the industry’s backlash – real or imagined – towards Elon Musk’s SpaceX merger talks, Full Self Driving’s staff revolt, and even large, utility scale solar projects. All this and more when you hit that play button!
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Elon Musk spent years telling the world that solar power was the obvious answer to Earth’s energy needs — that a small patch of desert could power the entire United States. Now, he’s burning millions of tons of fossil fuels to run an AI chatbot that has lost 60% of its downloads, selling the unused compute to a company he called “misanthropic and evil” three months ago, and pitching space-based…
As the Iran war disrupts global energy supplies, countries in Africa and Southeast Asia are accelerating their shift toward renewable energy to counter rising fuel prices. New Chinese consumer data released this week shows a sharp surge in solar panel exports, with shipments to Southeast Asia climbing 75% year-on-year in April. China, the world’s largest producer of solar panels, is also…
Solarzellen auf Fahrzeugen könnten laut einem Pilotprojekt Europas Stromnetze deutlich entlasten und die Netzbelastung erheblich senken.
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A joint European-Chinese spacecraft is set to blast off Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and giant explosions of plasma shot out from the Sun slam into Earth’s magnetic shield. Particularly fierce solar storms can knock out satellites, threaten astronauts — and create colourful auroras in the skies of northern and southern latitudes. […]
Every Terminator since the 1960s coincided with a flip from El Niño to La Niña conditions.
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Graham Platner’s recently released energy plan navigates several tensions, including how to build clean energy projects and transmission lines quickly while also incorporating community input. Such projects are not only needed to fight climate change but to help bring down sky-high electricity prices. Platner’s plan contains only a short section on this tension, calling for […]
Wenn die Dämmerung über den Volkspark Rehberge fällt, beginnt wieder das, was im Wedding längst zum Sommer dazugehört: Kino unter freiem Himmel. Ab 20. Mai läuft die Saison im Freiluftkino – mit einem Programm, das bewusst breit aufgestellt ist und Abende verspricht, die mehr sind als bloß Filmvorführungen. In der ersten Hälfte des Sommers setzt das Kino auf eine Mischung, die sich bewährt hat:…
Tesla’s Solar Roof was supposed to revolutionize residential solar. Elon Musk unveiled the product in 2016 with the promise of beautiful solar tiles that would replace your entire roof — and he set a target of 1,000 new Solar Roofs per week by the end of 2019. Nearly a decade later, Tesla has installed roughly 3,000 Solar Roof systems total, stopped reporting deployment numbers, and is now…
As the leaders of the world’s two largest economies meet in Beijing this week, a new analysis underscores a growing divergence between China and the United States in shaping the global energy system. While Chinese companies continue to expand their dominance of clean energy industries, the data shows, their American counterparts are withdrawing from those […]
The first key fact is that the Earth’s globally averaged annual insolation changes very little over epochal timescales.
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The Trump Administration’s decision to repeal of the 30% home solar tax credit in 2025 looked like the end of the road for subsidized residential rooftop solar projects, but homeowners can still get it under certain circumstances – until America’s 250th birthday, that is.
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An offshore wind power firm has developed a prototype turbine that hosts a 12-megawatt data center within its ballast tanks. The demands of AI computing have driven data center developers to seek creative solutions when building these incredibly power-hungry installations. One is to build them into floating offshore installations where renewable energy can be gathered […]
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After introducing its subscription-based solar plan last year, Maxis is now expanding its Maxis Home Solar offering with a new outright purchase option for homeowners in Peninsular Malaysia. The new option is aimed at users who prefer full ownership of their solar photovoltaic (PV) system instead of committing to a long-term subscription plan. According to […]
More than 30 years ago, in the mountain village of Mbem in northwest Cameroon, the moon and stars in the night sky were the only light young Jude Numfor knew after the sunset. Electricity had not yet reached his rural community.
“There was one person in the village with a petrol generator and a small television,” Numfor says. “When he turned it on, all the children would run to his house and…
...changes in solar intensity across latitudes and seasons are argued here to be a primary driver of the observed patterns and a useful guide for anticipating future regional trends. Broadly, the NH has strong upward temperature trends while the SH is cooling in the high latitudes that will eventually progress to the mid-latitudes as both maximum daily insolation and poleward advection…
Environmental ‘champions’ were honoured, the world hit a big energy milestone, and science beat a type of blindness, plus more
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Ohio resembles a torture chamber for renewable energy developers, according to new research that examines how regulators in 19 states handle wind and solar project applications. The Buckeye State had the most projects rejected by state regulators, with seven, and the most withdrawn by developers before a decision, with five, says a paper in the […]