Another week has flown by, so it’s time to share another list of the most popular new CleanTechnica stories of the week. Here are the top 10: Largest Solar Plant On Planet Earth — Solar Star — Comes Online “Car Of The Century” Is Tesla Model S, Car & Driver Writes In … [continued]
Originally published on 1Sun4All. You may already have seen the announcement that Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) arrived safely in Hawaii on Friday, July 3. Now you can read all the stats in the latest news from Solar Impulse: The longest and most difficult leg of the round-the-world solar flight attempted since last March … [continued]
Originally published on 1Sun4All. MORE BREAKING NEWS from Solar Impulse 2 (Si2): I feel exhilarated by this extraordinary journey. I have climbed the equivalent altitude of Mount Everest five times without much rest. The team at the Mission Control Center in Monaco (MCC) was my eyes and my ears. The MCC was battling to … [continued]
Originally published on 1Sun4All. BREAKING NEWS from Solar Impulse 2 (Si2): André Borschberg aboard the Solar Impulse 2 will touch down at Kalaeola Airport in Hawaii at approximately 6:00 am local time (16:00 UTC). Solar Impulse 2 is carrying the message of a clean future from Nagoya to Hawaii with #FutureIsClean. After breaking absolute distance and … [continued]
Originally published on 1Sun4All. BREAKING NEWS from Solar Impulse 2 (Si2): The airplane of Swiss explorers Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg attempting the first round-the-world solar flight has broken all distance and duration world records for solar aviation (80 hours and 5,663 km / 3,519 miles). At the controls, André Borschberg has also broken the record for the longest solo flight … [continued]
Update: I added the Lazard chart on levelized cost of electricity and the update below it in order to provide some context for those who don’t realize that 4¢/kWh (or even 5.71¢/kWh) is lower than the lowest LCOE for all other sources of electricity other than wind power. Texans likes to be #1. … [continued]
I know, I know. All our heart goes out to distributed solar, but utility-scale solar installations in the United States are very much alive and kicking. In fact, of the 6 GW of new solar capacity added in the US during 2014, 63% of it came from utility-scale plants. This included two mammoth projects … [continued]
It’s been awhile. Catching up after the busy trip to Vancouver for Renewable Cities has taken some time, and I now have a quite long list of extra solar power, wind power, and other clean power stories to share. If you have some time, stroll through these and click on whichever ones … [continued]
Japanese construction company Sekisui Heim deployed the droids in a recent television ad promoting its “Smart Power Station”–branded net zero houses. Though it probably paid a pretty penny to draft C-3PO and R2-D2 as spokesdroids, it will have been a manageable expense: not only is parent company Sekisui Chemical a sprawling 20,000-employee … [continued]
Another month has flown by. Hopefully you all had the opportunity a few times to reflect on the meaning of life. Hopefully you also enjoyed the CleanTechnica articles below. I’ve got two lists today: first, the top 10 articles of the past week; and second, the top 20 articles of the month. But … [continued]
