Renewables are critical to the future of efficient, clean transportation. Sweden just opened the world’s first electric highway article tells that Sweden’s electric long-haul trucks are finally up and running. A pilot study on that first mile is currently underway in the town of Sandviken. The system, which is the first of its kind to open →
enewable energy is generally defined as energy that is collected from resources which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat. Based on REN21‘s 2016 report, renewables contributed 19.2% to humans’ global energy consumption and 23.7% to their generation of electricity in 2014 and 2015. Efficient →
This is main electrical distribution panel in modern house in Finland. Notice the networking patch panel and cable TV signal distribution taking the bottom half of panel. Here is closer look to part where cable TV, Internet (cat6 copper) and untermimated fiber optic cable comes into house. →
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/finland-to-bury-its-nuclear-waste-for-100000-years/ There is a real plan going on how to properly handle the radioactive waste from nuclear power stations. →
http://www.treehugger.com/green-jobs/solar-industry-creating-jobs-20x-faster-rest-us-economy.html?platform=hootsuite Solar energy industry is growing very fast while rest of the economy does have challenges. →
A solid state relay (SSR) is an industrial component used for interfacing low voltage control signals to high current mains voltage loads. The SSR may be designed to switch either AC or DC to the load. It serves the same function as an electromechanical relay, but has no moving parts. You can control SSRs easily →
http://futurism.com/worlds-largest-coal-company-going-solar/ Interesting article that describes the benefit of molten salt based solar power generation – it has storage that allows it to continue electrical power generateration also at night. →
http://www.geek.com/science/portugal-ran-on-renewable-energy-alone-for-four-days-1655150/ Nice milestone without using fossil fuels for electrical power. →
http://reneweconomy.com.au/2016/germany-nearly-reached-100-percent-renewable-power-on-sunday-32091 More renevables in use than what I expected… →
http://cleantechnica.com/2016/04/26/__trashed/ Easy to understand description of solar panels. →