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May 22, 2013
by Diane Toomey, Yale Environment 360
U.S. businesswoman Katherine Lucey is working with a network of women entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa to sell inexpensive, household solar energy systems. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Lucey explains how solar electricity can transform lives, particularly those of rural women …
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May 2, 2013
by Robert Rapier, R Squared
Perhaps the biggest shortcoming of solar and wind power is their intermittency. In locations like Hawaii, where I live, wind and solar power are already competitive on price. My fossil-fuel supplied electricity typically costs above 40 cents a kilowatt-hour, and wind and solar power can compete …
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Mar 7, 2013
by Jeff Spross, Climate Progress
Deutsche Bank just released new analyses concluding that global solar market will become sustainable on its own terms by the end of 2014, no longer needing subsidies to continue performing.
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Jan 11, 2013
by Chris Bolgiano, Transition Voice
Producing your own power is true independence, but all power has its limits. The limit of solar power lies in batteries, which are still expensive, large, and heavy. Designing a solar system to sustain your household when the grid goes down is a lesson in needs versus wants. These become …
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Oct 24, 2012
by Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer
What is being called the world’s first solar-powered flour mill is now in operation at Frankferd Farms in Butler County, Pa...It dawned on me, thinking of Frankferd Farms, that what I have here is a solar and wind-powered corn dryer as well as a storage bin.
