Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Virtually carbon-free
Renewable: solar and solar
Needs to get cheaper
Don't have the nuclear's drawbacks
4. Solar power adoption
Bill and Debi Lord
Website and Podcast 4 the curious: MAINE SOLAR HOUSE
Passionate advocates 4 solar power
Solar houses
Offers on-site tours to convert houses
Solar electric panels
For home uses
Net metering
Sells the surplus to the grid
Solar hot water panels
Phill Reavis Jr
change = motivated by oil crisis
Industrial designer
Sommerville, MA
1st to go solar in the community
Incentives to go solar (US)
Phill pays less than a half
Net metering
Massachusetts = 50% off investment
14 states
1) Illinois / 2) Wisconsin / 3) Minnesota / 4) Florida / 5) Cali
fornia / 6) Nevada / 7) Massachusetts / 8) Maine / 9) New York / 10) Vermont / 1
1) Connecticut / 12) Maryland / 13) Delaware / 14) New Jersey
8. Solar Thermal Power Plant
Powers 150,000 homes in Greater LA area
occupy area bigger than NY Central Park
largest solar power plant in the world
3h driving from LA
Mojave Desert
built 20 years ago = response energy crisis
Kramer Junction
Uses parabolic-shapped mirrors
Uses synthetic oil
Reaches up to 750 degrees Fahrenheit
0. About the movie
Watched Jan. 14, 2015
To buy: shop.wgbh.org
NOVA DVDs
2007
56 minutes
ISBN: 978-1-59375-721-2
9. Germany
Leader in solar cell production
More and more renewable
Walls of solar panels on the roads
Hermann Scheer
80% of the people support the Clean Energy project
National Renewable Energy Act
ahead on schedule: close to 30% by 2020
Leading advocate
20% of renewable energy by 2020
cash incentives
prices fixed for 20 years to build huge solar structures
50 cents to sell
20 cents to buy
11. Technologies
Nano solar paint
Nathan Lewis
CalTech professor - nano technology
Layer of something conductor of electricity
Wires to transport energy
Layer of the solar paint
Uses titanium oxide (TiO2)
Put a positively charged coat over the Lewis's paint to freed electr
ons
Flexible solar sheeting
More power than conventional panels
Photovoltaic panels
Solar heat panels
Multijunction solar cell
Several layers of light-absorbing materials
miniature version of a conventional solar solar cell
harness energy in different energy bands = more efficiency
technology used in the robot that is being used in the Mars robot by
NASA
10. Promising trend led by business
SolarEdison
Jigar Shah - CEO
company and its investors pay the solar systems
contractor promises to buy buy power over a long-term contract
Whole Foods Market
Solar panels complements but not replaces energy from the grid
Jennifer McDonnel - green missions specialist
Roof covered with solar panels
Solar provides only 15% of the year round store needs
The panels supplies from 50%-100% daylight needs
Daylight fares are the most expensive ones
Fixed prices for 20 years
Because of that - prices are predictable
13. Final considerations
California's plan to get solar panels on a million roofs
Solar power + wind (2007) less than 1%
U.S. need to achieve 20-30% of solar power + other renewables to signifi
cantly reduce CO2 emissions
Is this target realistic? (20%-30% solar)
Sterling Burnett
Energy Policy Analyst
Don't think 20-25 y it is going to be 20%
Larry Kazmerski
National Renewable Energy Lab
Fairly certain that it is by 2025 - 25% from solar