Amazing how ice falling on people from wind turbines is as much a problem in Australia as the US.
Thanks for that, very interesting. The 1909 caption on the photo says the person is Cove, not Fritts, and that it is a 60W PV panel at 118 Maiden Lane, NY. The author of the 1884 claim sticks to his story on weird evidence (anonymous received postcoard). Seems like there may be more to uncover here.
And the solar-boiler powered water pump at the Cawston Ostrich Farm, South Pasadena, 1901 â I used to live around the corner.
Great idea! Here's Charles Fritts with his solar PV panel in New York, 1884 - supposedly 2% efficient. Definitely deserves a plaque .
Crown Minerals Bill closes 1 Oct. Govt acting for a 4 ÂșC world. But if that's what we're getting it would make more sense to curtail fossil even quicker to prepare for the extreme disruption that would then be coming. My submission: www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...
Remarkable new research-based piece from @DeSmog takes unprecedented in-depth look at how Irelandâs agri-industrial livestock lobby wields power, dominates State agencies, avoids regulation & drives spiralling GHG emissions, water pollution issues. www.desmog.com/2024/09/25/m...
In the chilled section of any major supermarket, from London to Lagos, youâre likely to find a taste of Ireland â a stick of premium butter wrapped in gold or green packaging, celebrating a superior p...
Are there countries where renewable energy companies lobby their government for faster reductions in fossil CO2 emissions?
1983's famous "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal": "Allegedly, one Real Programmer [from JPL] managed to tuck a pattern matching program into a few hundred bytes of unused memory in a Voyager spacecraft that searched for, located, and photographed a new moon of Jupiter." www.pbm.com/~lindahl/rea...
