Back in December we reported on RSi-Solar announces the world’s first, transparent, photovoltaic-glass window which generates 80 to 250 watts of electricity. Here
It was hard to top that exciting news but this new announcement shines new light into silicon wafer efficiency. At the GoGreen EXPO (Los Angeles)… RSi-Solar just unveiled the most powerful solar panel in the world. The DSO SUPER-PV™, a 60-cell, standard-size, mono-crystalline photovoltaic-module with a 350 watt-OUTPUT rating, an incredible 160 to 200% power-output over industry’s top 220 watt-peak modules.
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From (Business Wire) Rainbow Solar Inc. (RSI)
2009 Production capacity of 120 megawatts, at conventional Photovoltaic pricing. RSi believes this will become the standard for all future photovoltaic systems. RSi plans to license the SUPER-PV™ technology to PV and module companies globally.
DSO is working with LEED-AP and AIA professionals to realize ‘self-powered-buildings’ (SPB), by converting the entire building surface into an energy-collector, utilizing advanced technologies such as the PV-Glass-Window and SUPER-PV™.
DSO, the BIPV division of RSi, is dedicated to the realization of a gridless future, where power will be embedded into buildings and freely accessible, like air - wherever there is sunlight, there will be power.
This is such an outstanding shift in thought. It shows their is always hope for peace, and sets the stage for ways to reach World Peace.
Excerpts from “I AM NOT SHOOTING AND I AM NOT CRYING”, a work in progress featuring speakers from COMBATANTS FOR PEACE.
To see a free 90 minute Quicktime presentation of this event go to WWW.MOTHERSWORLDMARKET.COM and select the FREE MEDIA STREAMS category. No registration required.
BACKGROUND:
Brit Tzedek v’Shalom is a US based Jewish peace organization of over 36,000 individuals whose mission is to educate and mobilize American Jews in support of a negotiated two-state resolutioon to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In winter 2007, Brit Tzedek v’Shalom organized a 22 city tour of the United States by representatives of Combatants For Peace.
Combatants For Peace is a group of Israelis and Palestinians who were formerly involved in the cycle of violence. The Israelis served as combat soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Palestinians were engaged in acts of violence in the name of Palestinian liberation. After brandishing weapons for so many years, they decided to put down their guns and fight for peace.
On January 25, 2007, Sulaiman Al-hamri and Elik Elhanan, the Palestinian and Israeli coordinators of Combatants For Peace, spoke at Beth Emet Synagogue in Evanston, Illinois.
New U of T research looks to create organic solar cells by using special quantum effect
DailyTech/Jason Mick/1.18.09
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Imagine having cheap, printable solar cells at your fingertips, woven into your clothing,streaming power into your mobile electronics. Organic electronics, a field which includes organic solar cells and organic transistor circuits, has many advantages, the biggest of which is the ability to be printed easily, and the ability to flex without breaking.
The team looked at conjugated polymers, one of the most efficient organic materials available for solar power production. These long molecules can be also used in transistors and LEDs. They behave roughly like semiconductors, while retaining important organic characteristics. When exposed to light, they produce energy, which is transferred down their chain, eventually reaching other molecules and finally leaving the cell.
The findings are reported in the Jan. 16 edition of the journal Science. The work was sponsored by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Here is the short version of “Playing for Change - Stand By Me”
“Through inspiring each other we will create a better world…
for us now and for the kids tomorrow…
we don’t even know how long we are in this world, so there really is no reason to fear anything…
the important thing is while we are here let’s make a difference together…
that is what playing for change is trying to represent.”
-Mark Johnson
Music… a universal language that transcends politics and religion.
The folks at the Playing for Change Foundation are building music schools around the globe. Spreading a universal message of hope and connection through a common bond of music.
Creating an opportunity to have them solar powered and energy independent could add to the vibration of the planet and the universal song of love we all share.
Hopefully, very soon, Citizenre will have the social funding options to bring support for solutions and global social programs like this.
One love… One heart… Many Solutions…
Making a difference together,
In-joy,
Bruce
And a second video with a delightful interview by Bill Moyers (PBS) of Mark Johnson with a moving rendition of “One Love” at the end…
(Rocky Mountain News) -Gargl Chakrabarty
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On Friday, the utility sought competitive bids for up to 600 megawatts of solar power projects with capacity for storage - power that would serve roughly 150,000 customers in the Front Range.
The price tag: about $3 billion.
If Xcel selects a single plant generating the entire power, it would be the world’s biggest solar project.
“We can do it,” said John Czingula, one of the biggest shareholders and founder of Solargenix Energy.
DENVER – Xcel Energy will seek to acquire approximately 2,200 megawatts of electric generation supply for its Colorado customers between now and 2015, through an all-source request for proposal (RFP) issued today by the company. The RFP is part of the most recent 2007 Colorado Resource Plan (CRP) approved by state regulators in December.
Xcel Energy is seeking to add up to 700 megawatts of additional wind and solar generation through the RFP. In addition, the company will consider acquiring up to 600 megawatts from solar thermal generation with storage capability or natural gas backup.
We are the ones we have been waiting for. The opportunities presented by the challenges of our future, I believe, will bring out the best in us. This energy revolution we are part of is ushering in a new world, a reordering of priorities and energies with a movement of sustainability born out of respect for our environment and love for one another.
Below are a few reflections and gems bringing light to why I think 2009 will be historic, not only for our country but for the world. This is the time for an energy revolution. It is being asked for on so many levels.
In-joy,
Bruce
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Walking the Talk…
“Education enables us to understand ourselves and others and our links with the wider natural and social environment, and this understanding serves as a durable basis for building respect.”
Defining the principle keys to Sustainability Education
1. Dialogue
2. Integration
3. Community
4. Reflection
5. Hope
“Sustainability… driven from the bottom up and supported from the top down.”
——————— Apollo’s Fire
“In 1961, President John F. Kennedy ignited America’s Apollo Project and sparked a revolution in space exploration. Today the New Apollo Energy Project is poised to revolutionize the production of energy and thereby save our planet. The nation that built the world’s most powerful rockets, its most advanced computers, and its most sophisticated life support systems is ready to create the world’s most powerful solar energy systems, its most advanced wind energy turbines, and its most sophisticated hybrid cars. This will result in nothing less than a second American Revolution. Who are the dreamers in California who believe they can use mirrors and liquid metal to wring more electricity from a ray of sunshine than anyone else on earth can?
Who are the innovators who have built a contraption that can turn the energy of a simple wave off the Oregon coast into burnt toast in Idaho? Who are the scientists in Massachusetts who have invented a battery that now runs your hand drill and will soon run your car? Readers will meet them all in this book. They will learn how the new energy economy will grow, the research that is required, and the legislation that must be passed to make the vision a reality.
This is a thoughtful, optimistic book, based on sound facts. No one before has tied together the concepts of economic growth and greenhouse gas reductions with such concrete examples. No one has previously told the real stories of the people who are right now on the front lines of the energy revolution. The co-authors, one a U.S. Congressman who is the primary sponsor of the New Apollo Energy Act, and the other the founder of the Apollo Alliance, have joined their experience, expertise, and passion for a clean energy future to lay out the path to stop global warming and gain energy independence.”
——————— Google supporting the energy revolution -Full Story
“Lean and affordable energy is a growing need for our company, so we’re excited about launching “RE
We’re busy assembling our own internal research and development group and hiring a team of engineers and energy experts tasked with building 1 gigawatt of renewable energy capacity that is cheaper than coal. (That’s enough electricity to power a city the size of San Francisco.) Google’s R&D effort will begin with a significant effort on solar thermal technology, and will also investigate enhanced geothermal systems and other areas.”
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Before the traditional Iroquois convened
their consul meetings, they invoked this
declaration :
In our every deliberation we must
consider the impact of our decisions on
the next seven generations.
“Thereafter, any vote included an equal vote cast by a representative who spoke specifically forthe needs, the survival, and the dignity of those who would live a hundred and fifty years in the future.
For the Iroquois, the generational format of their council defined a long term relationship between government and ecology. The rights of future generations never became an issue of policy because it was, instead, the very context of policy. Conservation was, thus, the very foundation upon which their culture was built.
The medium was the message.
In the process of blueprinting our own American system of government, Thomas Jefferson was said to have drawn much inspiration from the Iroquois version of representational democracy. It makes one wonder about things that might have been. For example, had Jefferson written the rights of future generations into the U.S. bill of rights, would we, who live ten generations after Jefferson, still be dependent upon non-renewable fossil fuels which cause global warming?
Or imagine what life would be like today if, a hundred years ago, we had set in place a public mechanism to test the ecological value of the automobile or, fifty years ago, the social value of the television set. But there was no debate. Unlike the Iroquois, our parents and our great grandparents had no public mechanism that spoke to the long term effects of their inventions.
Nor do we have any mechanism today to examine genetic engineering, or even no-brainers like excessive product packaging. Rather, we remain saddled to technological “progress”, and it renders us deaf to anyone who would speak intuitively for the rights and needs of future generations. One might well wonder how the future would be different if we started electing
politicians possessed of better hearing.”
-Jim Nollman Full article
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(1.8.09 - Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday said an economic stimulus package should include building a new electricity “smart grid.
“Smart grid” describes a more efficient, cost-saving method of moving electricity along major long-distance transmission lines to local distribution power lines and disparate end-users in homes, businesses and schools.
The estimated cost of creating a nationwide “smart grid” by investor-owned utilities in the United States is $50 billion over 10 to 20 years, said Ed Legge, an analyst with the Edison Electric Institute, a power industry lobbyist. Adding federally and locally owned utilities, the full cost would be about $65 billion.
Smart grid advocates say utilities and customers will realize cost savings in the long run, despite the high roll-out costs.
In a smart grid, computers and sensors, installed at power plants, substations and along power lines, would signal control centers that would better manage the flow of electricity. For instance, computers would detect transmission bottlenecks and direct power around them.
Power outages are now monitored as customers call local utilities to report them. Smart grid computers would discover outages automatically.
“Smart meters” would be installed to replace conventional electricity meters. These would facilitate communication between utilities and their customers, letting them curb power use when demand peaks and prices are high.
Cutting demand during peak hours would reduce the need for capital spending on more power plants, substations and power lines. Proponents say it also will cut greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.
The meters combined with smart appliances would make it possible to control and regulate appliances remotely.
Proponents say “smart” technology also will help renewable power sources like solar panels and solar power plants and wind farms integrate into the overall transmission system.
Conventional power grids have difficulty with the intermittent nature of solar and wind power.
Smart grid technology is in various forms of planning and implementation depending on the utility or state jurisdiction.
Investor-owned utilities account for about 70 percent of U.S. electricity use. Several utility companies have begun replacing conventional electricity meters with “smart meters” that receive signals from the grid and send signals back to grid operators.
After year-long study of smart grid technologies in the Pacific Northwest, U.S. officials and IBM estimated customers saved 10 percent on monthly power bills and cut power use by 15 percent.
If those figures could be realized nationwide, it could save between $70 billion and $120 billion in spending on new power plants and transmission lines, the study found.
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