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Floating solar … ???

September 19th, 2007 · Comments Off on Floating solar … ???

The United Arab Emirates has just contracted with  a Sweedish firm, CSEM to purchase a floating solar island.  This concept has been around awhile, but this is the first sale. The UAE is going to build a 100 meter wide “island”, producing about one megawatt at a cost of $5 million.  This is a concetrating […]

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Energy COOL: Vertical Urban Gardening

September 19th, 2007 · Comments Off on Energy COOL: Vertical Urban Gardening

The Globe faces many challenges, that intersect in very complex system-of-system ways.  There are no Single Shot/Silver Bullet solutions out there. But, in some ways, there are solution sets that provide an integrated solution set that make them a potentially valuable Silver BB. Our challenges include Peak Oil, Global Warming, clean water constraints, food supply […]

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