Create accountLogin

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
en.osm.town is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
An independent, community of OpenStreetMap people on the Fediverse/Mastodon. Funding graciously provided by the OpenStreetMap Foundation.

Administered by:

Server stats:

251
active users

en.osm.town: AboutProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.7

#photovoltaics

1 post1 participant0 posts today
Public
alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts

We don't often see #art or #illustration of #solarpunk #infrastructure - and it's not an easy thing to convey.

Scandinavian101 decided to explore some #solarFarm #desert panoramas, building something close to #simonStalenhag 's juxtaposition of huge and personal, mundane and special.

artstation.com/artwork/0l5BwV

He takes #commission s at bsky.app/profile/scandinavian1

CC BY-SA-NC 4.0

A panorama of a solar farm located in a desert, with huge white-and-red towers being warmed by solar rays from enormous arrays of mirrors. Just at the base of one of such towers an electric car is being charged.
A panorama of several solar farms located in a desert, with huge white-and-red towers being warmed by solar rays from enormous arrays of mirrors. We can see a bus driving between them.
#stalenhag#solar#solarpanel
Replied in thread
Public
Mark

Article on the Sherco coal-to-solar transition: cnn.com/2024/09/16/climate/coa

Touches on several themes: Coal-fired power plants can make great sites for utility-scale solar installations--the transmission lines are already there; coal can still be used for a while, while the solar array is being built out; intermittency of fossil-fuel power plants; and wind & solar being far cheaper sources of energy than coal.

CNN · A polluting, coal-fired power plant found the key to solving America’s biggest clean energy challengeBy Ella Nilsen
#coal#NoMoreCoal#solar
Public
Lucomo

"The next part of the transition will see solar become a dominant force in energy at a speed few are prepared for.

'IIf I do the maths, from 0.5 per cent to 5 per cent [of global power] takes about the same time as from 5 per cent to 80 per cent,' …

At current rates, solar is on track to provide 12 per cent of global electricity in three years, 24 per cent in six years, and 48 per cent in less than a decade."

abc.net.au/news/2024-12-18/sur

ABC News · A survey of the world's solar panels shows a global energy boomBy Julian Fell
#EnergyTransition#Photovoltaics
Replied in thread
Public
1 Dipl. fckng Ing.*

@janrosenow

Yes, that's why I love this (somewhat outdated) diagram:

ourworldindata.org/learning-cu

This disruption will catch many by surprise and hopefully floor some fossil fuel business models.

On the other hand, it is a major problem that many people are unable to understand the consequences of the exponentially increasing water capacity of our atmosphere as temperatures rise.

Diagram showing how maximum water content of air rises exponentially with temperature.
#climatecrisis#flooding#photovoltaics
Public
DoomsdaysCW

Scientists' innovation for #IndoorSolarCells maximizes the use of light energy

Story by Science X staff
7/25/2024

"Chemists at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), #Lithuania have synthesized materials that can improve solar elements for indoor use. Such photovoltaic cells, which can also be integrated into various electronic devices, generate electricity even in #LowLight conditions.

"Their study is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

"Consumption of oil and gas results in an increase of atmospheric temperatures, leading to global #ClimateChange, currently labeled a #ClimateCrisis. To combat this problem, efforts are being made to use #renewable and environmentally friendly energy sources such as #wind, water and #SolarPower.

"'Wind and #hydropower energy are constrained by high costs and location dependency, while solar energy is flexible, efficient and relatively inexpensive. However, the energy from indoor light sources and natural light entering through windows is lost every day,' says Juozas Vidas Gražulevičius, Professor at the KTU Faculty of Chemical Technology and Head of the Chemistry of Materials research group.

"According to Prof. Gražulevičius, this can be solved by indoor #photovoltaics, which generate electricity even in low-intensity light conditions."

Read more:
msn.com/en-us/news/technology/

Paper:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsam

#SolarEnergy #SolarSundays
#SolarSunday #Renewables #RenewablesNow

www.msn.comMSN
Public
Johannes Scholz

New paper alert: "Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to Evaluate the Geographic Potential of Alternative Photovoltaic Types" (doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13080269). The paper highlights an approach to determine the #geographic potential for deploying #photovoltaics and showcases some real-world examples of the #spatialanalysis approach. Funded by FFG Austrian Research Promotion Agency (Project PV4EAG)! Thanks to Franziska Hübl and Franz Welscher for their great work!

doi.org/10.3390/ijgi1308026

MDPIMulti-Criteria Decision Analysis to Evaluate the Geographic Potential of Alternative Photovoltaic TypesThis paper contributes to the expansion of green energy production, which is being pursued in order to mitigate climate change and carbon emissions from energy production. It addresses the delineation of areas that are suitable for the application of photovoltaics in the context of agricultural areas, water bodies, and parking spaces. Three specific photovoltaic types are examined in order to find out which criteria influence their geographic potential and whether spatial multi-criteria decision analysis methods are suitable for identifying suitable areas. The proposed approach consists of four steps: (1) collecting factors through expert interviews and questionnaires; (2) mapping the criteria to the spatial datasets; (3) deriving weighted scores for individual criteria through expert interviews; (4) applying the multi-criteria decision analysis method to compute and aggregate the final scores. We test our methodology at selected sites in the state of Styria, Austria. The test sites represent the topographical characteristics of the state and are about 5% of the size of Styria, approximately 820 km2. The key contributions are a weighted set of criteria that are relevant for the geographic potential of alternative photovoltaic types and the developed methodology to determine this potential.
ExploreLive feeds
About