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Spring means more solar-charged EV miles

Thursday, 16 May 2013 19:26 | Written by Tom Moloughney, SCD.Com Guest Columnist |

The back of Tom Moloughney's BMW ActiveE with his home's solar gas tank, aka his home solar PV system, in the background. [Photo Courtesy of Tom Moloughney]

Now that spring has rolled in the temperature isn't the only thing that's going up: So is my solar electric production.

My 8.775 kW system can produce up to 60 kWh a day under ideal conditions. That's enough to power my all-electric ActiveE over 200 miles, or enough to power it about 100 miles and supply all the power my house needs for an average day.

Pretty cool stuff. Powering my car and my house for the day on pure sunlight is really awesome.

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New solar EV charging canopy online in Michigan

Wednesday, 24 April 2013 07:53 |

lansing-solar-canopy Renewz sustainable solutions inc. recently collaborated with Eaton and the Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) to construct a solar powered electric vehicle carport at the riverside Lansing City Market. The event was headlined by Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero, whose presence signified the importance of this initiative to the Lansing area.

Developed by renewz, the solar charging car port system combines American-made electrical equipment from Eaton and structural components by Giulio Barbieri S.p.A. of Italy.

This innovative solar powered EV charging station will generate enough clean, renewable energy to recharge BWL’s Volt fleet or consumer electric vehicles for 25 years. In addition, it will reduce Lansing’s greenhouse gas emissions by more than 115 tons and permit more than 300,000 miles of clean driving.

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This earth is the only home we have

Monday, 22 April 2013 08:16 | Written by Christof Demont-Heinrich, SCD.Com Editor |

back-up-planet The graphic above, produced by the Facebook-based group, I Love Climate Scientists, pretty much says it all, don't you think?

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U.S. energy laboratory gets 2nd solar EV canopy

Saturday, 20 April 2013 19:19 | Written by Christof Demont-Heinrich, SCD.Com Editor |

One of two solar EV charging canopies at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo. [Photo by Brooke Way]

The U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) now has a second Envision Solar International Solar Tree array at its Vehicle Testing and Integration Facility. Envision completed the installation of the solar EV charging canopy at NREL's Golden, Colo. facility in mid-April.

"I'm proud that we have been chosen again by NREL. They are delighted the Solar Tree deployment went so quickly and without any typical construction problems," stated Desmond Wheatley , Chief Executive Officer, Envision Solar.

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Bill McKibben: Climate change = Story of our time

Wednesday, 10 April 2013 00:00 | Written by Christof Demont-Heinrich, SCD.Com Editor |

Author and environmental activist Bill McKibben lecturing at the University of Denver last week. [Photo by Christof Demont-Heinrich]

Journalists tend to be obsessed with novelty. Unfortunately, climate change has long since ceased to be a novel problem. But, novel or not, according to long-time environmental journalist and activist Bill McKibben, no story is more significant to global humanity.

This was the primary message McKibben put forward during a recent speech at the University of Denver before about 150 journalists and aspiring journalists from around the United States.

McKibben was at the University of Denver, where I teach journalism and communication courses, giving a keynote speech at a journalism conference called “Journalism is Dead; Long Live Journalism!”.

McKibben was also awarded the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media Anvil of Freedom Award by DU Media, Film & Journalism Studies Associate Professor Lynn Schofield Clark.

The conference, at which I spoke about SolarChargedDriving.Com as an example of environmental advocacy journalism, was focused on inspiring innovative and thought-provoking discussion about the state of journalism and its future, in particular, here in the United States.

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