The Huanghe Qinghai Delingha Solar Project is an 810-megawatt concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in northern China. The facility, which is still under construction, will contain six solar concentrating towers and is expected to supply electricity to more than one million people in the surrounding area. In a CSP plant, thousands of heliostat mirrors are arrayed in concentric circles and reflect sunlight onto a central “power tower,” where water is heated to 1,000°F, which generates steam, spins turbines, and produces electricity.
Indian National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) is planning a 50 MW photovoltaic project that will be the world’s largest freshwater floating solar power plant
Ahmed Mohamed, the Muslim American teen who became a household name after being arrested for a homemade clock, has done well for himself. After sending an invite back in September, Obama finally made good on his promise to Ahmed — and it couldn’t have happened on a better night.
This is amazing! Props to Obama, for reminding us to foster kids’ curiosity and creativity.
Here are some talks by more cool kids who are killing it:
Each unit includes all the same amenities as a hotel room and is 100% solar-powered, creating enough energy for air conditioning, lighting, refrigeration, and other appliances.
Pearlsuites are designed for Jet Capsule, an Italian water mobility brand whose vision is to bring the heights of road and air travel luxury to the water, sustainably. From the top-specs flagship version of Pearlsuites, to a simplified, open version for beach clubs, the concept intends to introduce a brand-new niche into the seaside hospitality market.
The floating suites would allow beach resorts to do the seemingly impossible: establish or expand their number of rooms in a matter of weeks, with zero carbon footprint, zero infrastructures, and zero land occupied, all at a low implementation cost.
The units are customizable and, if anchored, multiple units clustered together could become a floating resort.
if your hot witch summer has been too cold and rainy, use this spell to summon the sun.
This spell is an invocation spell, meaning it is only to be used for the purpose of summoning to aid only a magic user or their consenting targets with a specificpurpose. Examples of such purposes may be to get a tan, to aid one’s gardening, to ensure nice weather for outdoor activities, to attract a friendly visit from certain natural beings, etc. Do not use the sun’s magic with malicious intent, under any circumstances, or may it evade you forever ❤️ TERFS/SWERFS DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO REBLOG OR USE MY SPELLS WHATSOEVER.
you will need :
rain water from the most recent rainfall
art supplies
any kind you like, can be as simple as a post-it note and a hotel pen or as advanced as a full oil painting easel setup. it doesn’t matter.
some outdoor space that gets loads of sun.
garden, patio, parking lot, porch, windowsill, balcony, terrace, etc. all work. as long as the sun likes it.a south facing window would work too but i don’t have written instructions on containing rainwater. protect your wood and stuff from water when you do this. i know that you would’ve remembered to if i hadn’t reminded you, because you’re pretty smart, but i just wanted to remind you all anyways.
a rock.
can be any size, mine is pretty large because it’s a decorative stone for my garden.
a relaxing activity.
i chose bong rips and tarot reading. you can choose dumpster fires and mosh pits. you can choose tea and cartoons. you can choose hiking and taking pictures for instagram. you can choose sex and cleaning. you can choose sports and online poker. i don’t care. the sun doesn’t care. choose to do whatever makes you happy and relaxed.
a way to shower or clean yourself with water.
if you don’t have a shower/bathtub :: any public water parks, or sprinklers and hoses, a lake or the ocean … all work fine. for road trippers, truck stops often have showers you can pay like five dollars usually to use. the warm, half-empty water bottles that accumulate in the car could rinse you off. whatever, just a way to get water on your body to get cleaned off a bit.
how to cast the spell :
first you need to set up your workspace. if you cast circles, you may need to do that too. i don’t cast circles, so i don’t include that in any of my instructions. collect your materials, go to your outdoor area on an overcastday.do not cast this spell while it is raining. it is fine if it rains between you casting the spell and the spell manifesting. if it starts raining half way through casting the spell, you’ll need to re-collect water and re-cast the spell later.
pour your rainwater on your rock. completely cover it on all sides and edges and curves. you’ll know it’s completely covered because rocks usually change colour when wet. if you’re using a crystal make sure it’s real as well as that it’s safe to soak in water and leave in the sun.
leave your rock in your outdoor area. wave them goodbye and thank them for their energy.
use your art supplies to draw the type of weather you’d like. i would love to see what kind of drawings you guys do as well. if you’d like to see mine, you can message me. i would recommend using these symbols :
a circle for a sun in the middle. it should be small to medium sized. if you’d like for it to be especially hot, draw rays coming from it.
if you’d like to summon a rainbow, draw it as a circle around the sun, if you have drawn rays it should intersect with them.
if you’d like to summon a specific shade of blue for the sky, you can choose to colour the sky around the sun.
if you’d like there to be many clouds, draw clouds in the sky around the sun. only draw clouds over or touching the sun if you’d like to summon more overcast weather.
if you’d like the wildlife to be more active, you may draw birds or other critters in the sky as well.do not draw anything living over the sun or its rays.
go do your relaxing activity. chill out in a healthy way. use your brain while also giving it a well deserved break. think about your life and what you want and what you receive in it. clean yourself off briefly with water. if you’re in the shower/bath at this point, it’s okay to close the ritual off and have a proper shower with soap.
The Path and Fallen Fruit are the best new songs on the album (not counting the singles because they’ve been out for a little while so it wasn’t like a new experience hearing them on the album)
and my single ranking is: 1. Mood Ring, 2. Solar Power, 3. Stoned at the Nail Salon (but i like them all so this isn’t me hating satns or something)
moral of the story: after listening to the album 2 and half times now since it came out; it is good. i understand why a chunk of fans don’t like it because it’s so different from Lorde’s past stuff and i get how you could like Pure Heroine and Melodrama and just not vibe with Solar Power. HOWEVER i like it. it’s good. different but good. Melodrama is probably still my favorite but there are definitely some songs on SP that top all of my fav songs on Melodrama ya know.
maybe in like a week after listening to it more i’ll rank all the songs
Makoko is a fishing village located in the Lagos Lagoon. Due to the weakness of the nearby soil and its proximity to water, much of Makoko rests on structures constructed on stilts above Lagos Lagoon. Traditionally this area has been self governing so schools are funded and provided by the village.
The ingenious adaptation of building a structure that floats came from growing concerns with climate change and rising water levels. This adds to its versatility not just from an environmental standpoint but from a political and practical standpoint as well. The area of Makoko is consider a poor area and one of the slums of the city. The necessity to create a school that is not only low cost and sustainable but that also mobilizes as needed to serve the children of the village is significant. Additionally recent land reclamation efforts and commercial developments in the area have reclaimed much of the lagoon from the residents of Makoko. Their homes on stilts must be deconstructed and reassembled elsewhere, while the school’s maneuverability eliminates this process.
Built in 2013 with locally sourced wood and electrically powered with solar panels, the floating construct is designed to house about 100 students and even has a playground and green space. It is entirely sustainable due to the application of solar cells to the roof and incorporating a rainwater catchment system. The structure is also naturally ventilated and aerated. The barrels used to help the structure float are also used as water reservoirs from the catchment system. The floating schools are an ingenious design that serves the needs of the community in a cost effective and eco-friendly way.
If you Google it, right now the planet earth has about 80 years worth of uranium fuel. and right now the nuclear energy proponents are suffering a mental breakdown whenever anybody mentions this fact in their presence.
and, no, wind and solar are so unstable that they’ve made nuclear energy attractive again… after an almost 30 year with no new reactors.
sorry. Geothermal is the only long-term solution we have, and it is orders of magnitude more dangerous than nuclear energy.
i learned that the amount of sunlight that reaches Earth’s surface within 1.5 hours has enough energy to satisfy the world’s energy consumption for an entire year (x)
solar panels average life is 10 years, now tell me what will happen when they no longer work?
Great question! A lot of the things that make modern solar panels solar panel are elemental and can be reused in new panels. Not all, and not as many as the original Fritts selenium panels that we use on satellites, but many! So it’d be an investment in infrastructure to have things in place to take down, recycle and re-up the panels every decade or so (in waves, obv)
The real problem is storage and transport. There are areas in places like, for example Texas, who make far more energy than they need. So much in fact, that their grid’s running at a deficit. Energy costs negative dollars to produce. But they don’t have the infrastructure to store it, or even to transport it to the next county over where it is colossally expensive. The whole system needs an overhaul. Unfortunately, the people in power are more concerned with their military dick measuring (and, to be fair, the bridges that keep collapsing under people which is also a big problem)
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