Monday, August 1, 2016

Old MacDonald Had A FarmBot, I/O, I/O, I/O

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“You kids these days don’t know how good you’ve got it. Back in the day, we had to actually get our hands in the soil and manually plant seeds, pull weeds, and water the garden. Nowadays, you just drag and drop your garden program routines from the safety of the couch, and let the FarmBot [&hellip

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City Power Play — Part 3: City Policies Matter

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Originally published on ilsr.org. Below is part three of our City Power Play report, a report released in October 2013 (and still relevant today) about the types of policy solutions cities can enact to increase their ownership of renewable energy. Read part 1 and part 2, published last week. Permitting One authority almost all cities retain is [&hellip

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Georgia Power Triples Commitment To Renewables, Agrees To Build + Procure 1600 MW In 2018–2020

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The utility company Georgia Power has agreed to a new deal with a group of organizations that includes our friends at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) and sees the utility commit to build and procure 1,600 megawatts of renewable energy generation capacity in the 2018–2020 time period, according to recent reports. The deal, which has [&hellip

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21 MW DC Solar Facility Coming to NAS Oceana, Virginia Beach

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Originally published on Planetsave. Entering into a 37-year agreement with Dominion Virginia Power, the Department of the Navy (DoN) recently announced plans for a 21 MW direct current, or DC, solar facility in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Following closely on the heels of a 10-year purchase contract for 25 MW DC for Naval Station Norfolk, the [&hellip

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Harvard Cleantech Startup To Offer Smart Room Air Conditioner Control

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Nature, Inc. is a Boston-based cleantech startup founded by Haruumi Shiode and Mash Ohtsuka, located at the Harvard Innovation Lab. The company is planning to ship its smart room air conditioner controller, Nature Remo, this summer. Recently, it completed a successful Kickstarter campaign to help with the endeavor. Mr. Shiode answered some questions for CleanTechnica about [&hellip

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GRID Alternatives & UC–Berkeley RAEL Partnering For Community Solar Energy Access Research

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The solar energy project developer GRID Alternatives will be partnering with the University of California, Berkeley’s Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) in order to investigate the approaches used in off-grid solar energy projects installed by the former. To be more specific, RAEL researchers will be working with GRID Alternatives to study the effectiveness and [&hellip

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Another Delay For American Release Of Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV

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After years of delays, it seems that the US release of the Mitsubishi Outlander plug-in hybrid has been pushed back yet again…. I think this is the 7th time or something? Now, rather than a fall 2016 launch, the popular (in Europe and Japan) SUV is slated to be released in the US sometime next [&hellip

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