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How might we keep the lights on, water flowing, and natural world vaguely intact? It starts with grabbing innovative ideas/examples to help kick down our limits and inspire a more sustainable world. We implement with rigorous science backed by hard data.
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Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid

Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid | Sustainability Science | Scoop.it
Wind and solar farms are glutting networks more frequently, prompting a market signal for coal plants to shut off
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Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air

Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air | Sustainability Science | Scoop.it

A great online/pdf text book breaking down almost all aspects of energy.

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This glass sphere might revolutionize solar power on Earth - The Mind Unleashed

This glass sphere might revolutionize solar power on Earth - The Mind Unleashed | Sustainability Science | Scoop.it
German architect André Broessel, of Rawlemon, has looked into his crystal ball and seen the future of renewable energy. In thisRead More...
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Intriguing new way to concentrate solar energy.

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San Francisco's first Passive House apartment complex produces so much energy it powers its own Microgrid

San Francisco's first Passive House apartment complex produces so much energy it powers its own Microgrid | Sustainability Science | Scoop.it
San Francisco's first Passive House apartment complex and California's first microgrid building is rising in the Mission Creek neighborhood of San Francisco
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Very cool.  This is the type of micrgeneration that we need so much more of.

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New Material Could Turn Cell Phones, Windows Into Solar Power Generators

New Material Could Turn Cell Phones, Windows Into Solar Power Generators | Sustainability Science | Scoop.it
Scientists at Michigan State University announced this week the creation of a “transparent luminescent solar concentrator” that could turn windows and even cellphone screens into solar-power generators.

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PIRatE Lab's insight:

Interesting, but 1% efficiency is pretty far from something being useful.  If they can up the effective EM energy captured, then we would really have something here.

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