#solar-energy

#solar-energy

It's high time we adopt alternative energy solutions like solar power for lighting up our homes.IKEA is heedful of this need, and so is Little Sun, founded way back in 2012 by engineer Frederik Ottesen and Olafur Eliasson artist.The unison between the world's most recognized home furnishing retailers and the determined creative duo goes back to 2019 when they released a prototype of a solar-powered lighting collection dubbed SAMMANLÄNKAD.

Lighting designs are an absolute necessity in every home.An exquisite lighting design not only has the ability to illuminate any living space but also adds that extra oomph factor!I mean, of course, we need them to see in the dark, but as highly functional as they should be, a lighting fixture also needs to be aesthetically pleasing, adding an attractive and visually soothing element to your home or office space.

Designer Marjan van Aubel has collaborated with Dutch architecture studio V8 Architects to create a pavilion topped with multicoloured solar panels, which Dezeen has captured  in the third and final video in a series of Instagram reels for Dutch Design Week.Called Solar Pavilion, the central pavilion of Dutch Design Week (DDW) is comprised of rows of 380 blue, orange and red photovoltaic panels that form a curved shape designed to harness sunlight.

Broadsign andNumbat GmbH today (March 29th, 2023) announced that Numbat has selected theBroadsign digital-out-of-home (DOOH) advertising platform to build, power, and scale advertising capabilities for its growing network of sustainable, high-power electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.As Numbat rolls out 600 stations throughout 2023, each equipped with two advertising displays, the company is leveraging the Broadsign platform to manage and streamline advertising operations across its network.

Today, almost everything or everyone has gone green, whether it involves wearing clothes created from bio textiles or using gadgets powered by solar energy - sustainability is running high on everyone's mind, and we're always using/looking for an eco-friendly alternative to the mass-produced designs we've grown so accustomed to.

Skiers and snowboarders at Arapahoe Basin can now take refuge at il Rifugio, billed as the highest-elevation restaurant in North America, which reopened this week for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began.Perched at 12,456 feet, il Rifugio serves beer, wine, charcuterie boards and flatbreads to pair with 360-degree views of the Rocky Mountains.

Skiers and snowboarders at Arapahoe Basin can now take refuge at il Rifugio, billed as the highest-elevation restaurant in North America, which reopened this week for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began.Perched at 12,456 feet, il Rifugio serves beer, wine, charcuterie boards and flatbreads to pair with 360-degree views of the Rocky Mountains.

It starts as a reasonable question: If the Earth's climate changed before humans existed, how can we be so sure the current change is due to us and not something natural?To answer that question, we need to understand what caused the natural changes of the past.Fortunately, science has a good handle on the causes of Earth's natural climate changes going back hundreds of millions of years.

An Instagram user, Tommy Vext, recently posted, "If your global crisis requires publicity stunts to convince everyone there is a crisis, there is no global crisis."Climate change is a major concern, so I decided to take a closer look.It's not clear what Vext means by "publicity stunt," but this was posted Jan. 17, and he may be referring to the arrest that day of climate activist Greta Thunberg.

Elon Musk's initial motivational address to the social experiment now referred to as "Twitter employees" didn't bury the lead:
Musk Warns Twitter Bankruptcy Possible as Senior Executives Exit
Bursts of hyperbole are, of course, Musk's oeuvre - "funding unsecured," as it were - which is why he took so effortlessly to Twitter in the first place.

Multicoloured solar panels act like roof tiles on top of the Solar Pavilion, a gathering space at this year's Dutch Design Week created by local firm V8 Architects and design practice Marjan van Aubel Studio.The pavilion was designed to resemble a giant beach chair, in a nod to the fact that the pavilion offers visitors a place to rest after seeing the designs on display at the design festival last week.

As part of the Design Academy Eindhoven student show at Dutch Design Week, graduate Jelle Seegers has presented a smelting machine with an oversized magnifying glass that focuses the sun's heat to melt metal more sustainably.The Solar Metal Smelter features a large lens that is manually moved to follow the path of the sun and direct its heat into a crucible holding metal.

In 1960, visionary physicist Freeman Dyson proposed that an advanced alien civilization would someday quit fooling around with kindergarten-level stuff like wind turbines and nuclear reactors and finally go big, completely enclosing their home star to capture as much solar energy as they possibly could.

Future Mars inhabitants may be able to use one resource on Mars they hadn't anticipated to power future exploration of the planet, according to a new study.By tapping into wind power, space agencies could compensate for the times in the Martian day when solar energy is low or unattainable, like twilight and nighttime.

Defense officials have been required to submit a budgetary "wish list" every year since 2017.Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks with reporters on her way to a closed-door lunch meeting with Senate Democrats at the U.S. Capitol on March 22, 2023, in Washington, D.C.Drew Angerer / Getty Images As the U.S. defense budget continues to soar to record heights, even the Pentagon is coming out against the requirement that defense officials submit mandatory funding "wish lists" each year, a practice that tacks on tens of billions of dollars to already sky-high budget requests.

Demonstrators participate in a Kick Big Polluters Out protest at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt - The Latest on the United Nations climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt.Seven Asian countries have saved approximately $34 billion this year by using solar energy instead of fossil fuels, a report by three Asia-based climate think tanks said Thursday.