The very important Solar Energy ITC (investment tax credit) is coming up for a vote this week. It will extend the Solar ITC for eight years (until 2016) along with doubling the residential credit cap up to $4,000. The house passed a similar bill in May (HR 6049), so once this is signed, its on to reconciling the differences and heading to the President’s desk.
Apple is expected to launch their new notebook lineup sometime during the month of August. So lets quickly go over the rumors.
Its easy to say that we need flying cars or a cure for cancer now. But in this blog entry I’ll go over and show you why EREVs (extended-range electric vehicles) could have such a huge impact, both on a per car basis and from the nation’s perspective.
In part 1, I talked about the basic of solar power.
In part 2, I went into detail about thin-film technologies that stand to dramatically bring the price down.
In this part, I’ll talk about Solar Thermal, focusing in on Concentrated Solar Power, or CSP. This is using the heat energy from the sun to generate power.
In part 1, I covered the two different types of solar power and the basic on cost and ROI.
This is part 2. I’ll cover some future developments, specifically thin-film technologies which could revolutionize solar power. But TF has its drawbacks too, specifically low power efficiency per sq meter.
This is my first diary on Solar energy of many.
In this entry I’ll cover the solar basics, and cover some of the economics.
Note: this is a repost of a few diary entries I wrote at dKos.
So the launch of the iPhone3G has come and gone. The activation process was broke for several hours and frustrated lots of line waiters as they couldn’t manage to activate their shiny new hardware. While I was always skeptical of the whole in-store activation process, I didn’t think it would become this much of a train wreck. And a few days before the launch, after reading some reviews from the NYT and WSJ, I decided that I wouldn’t get the new iPhone. After some more research though, I’ve changed my mind.