Unsere 9 #Solargeräte, welche wir vor 41 Tagen versendet haben kamen heute bei unserem Empfänger in #Nepal an. Zuerst hat die Sendung die #Deutsche#Post geöffnet und der Zoll in Nepal hat sich auch Zeit gelassen. Dort erfolgt jetzt noch der Einbau der #Batterien und danach können wir die restlichen 20 Geräte versenden. Dies war unser erster Versand zum Test! 👍 #solar#lightforlife#himalaya#Annapurna#everest
In a shining example of turning swords into plowshares, the U.S. government wants to transform old nuclear bomb testing grounds into clean energy powerhouses.
The Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration are offering up land where nuclear weapons were tested for decades — and solar developers are lining up for a chance to build renewable energy projects on these sites.
Cleanup to Clean Energy aims to make productive use of contaminated lands.
Though Indian 🇮🇳 PM Modi has promised to rapidly build out #solar & #wind generation to replace polluting #FossilFuels, his administration hasn’t been able to keep up with demand, giving a second life to old, inefficient #coal plants 🏭 https://buff.ly/4d14b8k
Solar power realization: I should charge the plug-in car during sunny days. In the past it was programmed to happen overnight, hoping for a lower electricity rate. But, if there's power coming from panels, it’s much better to just have that go straight into the car rather than expect “selling" it to power company and using it later will be cheaper.
Yesterday I let my bot manage the inverter charging and discharging for the entire day. It did quite well! Our entire electricity demand was met for less than zero cost with solar and automated load shifting on the Octopus Agile tariff. #solar#renewables#solarpower
Here are some stills I pulled from the 1080p proxy of the 12K video. The only reason for the difference in brightness between the images (other than the sun going behind the moon) is that there was some light cloud cover that rolled in during totality.
On the plus side, you can clearly see the solar prominences in the 3rd and 4th pic. I can’t wait to look at the full res from the cameras.
Shot on a Blackmagic Design 12K Pro with 100-400mm lens with a 2x extender.
So. That was impressive. Here’s a quick sample from the backyard. Of note: temperature drop from 79.3 to 74.8, #solar production from the panels dropped to 0 and the house draw from the grid was the usual constant 420 watts, once the sun started coming back out the panels ramped back up, the temperature continued to drop for a few minutes to 74.5 but finally started edging up, and the dog could give a shit and just wandered around sniffing like usual.
Wow. The pictures don’t do it justice. Jupiter was visible to the left and Venus to the right (not in picture).
This cosmic coincidence is truly fascinating: the Sun is about 400 times wider than the Moon, but it’s also 400 times farther away from Earth. This perfect balance makes them appear almost the same size in our sky, allowing the Moon to occasionally cover the Sun completely during a solar eclipse.
The full day’s solar generation. We hit the usual peak of 6 kW around 11 AM until 11:55 AM, and then it dropped to 2.3 kW by 12:50 PM. By 1:55 PM it was back up to 6 kW. Around 2:30 PM it started the usual drop to 0 kW by 7:25 PM.