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[steve73] 13/11/2018 06:23

pvb - As I understand it, the flights were coming from Canada... I'd make a bet all the pilots were stoned...

That was the only time I ever saw aliens...

I did have one very enjoyable flight.. Aberdeen to Abu Dhabi with a 6 hour layover in Amsterdam gave us plenty of time to leave Schipol and venture into the Red Light district to enjoy some good coffee and cookies at the "interesting" local coffee shops.... I think I was about 200m in front of the 747 the whole way.. Best flight ever.

[pvb] 12/11/2018 22:44

UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation



Brexit? Aliens to the rescue?

[solsticefire] 09/11/2018 18:27

Where,as we know, it's nice.

[pvb] 09/11/2018 13:16

An officer who took a photograph of the pig said he was "lost for words".

So what did he expect, a talking pig? Mind you, it was Norfolk...

[uppompeii] 09/11/2018 11:53

It takes me a long time...

[sarkasm] 17/10/2018 13:08

17/10/2018 | 1:55 p.m.

PARIS (Agefi-Dow Jones) - Energy and services provider Engie and the Casino distribution group, through its subsidiary GreenYellow, launched Wednesday a joint venture called Reservoir Sun, a business and community services company in the field of photovoltaic energy.

"Reservoir Sun was created, with the agreement of the European authorities for competition regulation and social partners, to increase solar photovoltaic self-consumption in France," Engie said in a statement.

"Sun's Reservoir will specialize in the solar power segment up to 1 MWp (megawatts peak) for businesses and communities," installed on roofs and parking lots, with the goal of installing a solar power generation capacity. 100 MWp per year, "is nearly 300 cases of 300 kWp on average per project," said Engie.

Reservoir Sun plans to invest € 100 million each year in the medium capacity market, Engie noted.

The structure is entirely dedicated to this activity and is equally owned by Engie and GreenYellow.

-Alice Doré, Agefi-Dow Jones; [phone]; [e-mail] ed: VLV

Agefi-Dow Jones The financial newswire

[ariane] 06/10/2018 17:14

New Breakthrough Could Slash Solar Prices To New Lows
By Brian Westenhaus - Oct 06, 2018, 10:00 AM CDT Solar

Professor Yabing Qi and his team from OIST in collaboration with Professor Shengzhong Liu from Shaanxi Normal University, China, developed the cells using the materials and compounds that mimic the crystalline structure of the naturally occurring mineral perovskite.

The team described their technique in a study published in the journal Nature Communications.

In what Professor Qi refers to as “the golden triangle,” solar cell technologies need to fulfill three conditions to be worth commercializing: their conversion rate of sunlight into electricity must be high, they must be inexpensive to produce, and they must have a long lifespan. Today, most commercial solar cells are made from crystalline silicon, which has a relatively high efficiency of around 22%. Though silicon, the raw material for these solar cells, is abundant, processing it tends to be complex and shoots up the manufacturing costs, making the finished product expensive.

Perovskite offers a more affordable solution, Professor Qi said. Perovskite was first used to make solar cells in 2009 by Prof. Tsutomu Miyasaka’s research team at Toin University of Yokohama, Japan, and since then it has been rapidly gaining importance.

“Research on perovskite cells is very promising. In only nine years, the efficiency of these cells went from 3.8 % to 23.3%. Other technologies have taken over 30 years of research to reach the same level,” explained Qi. The fabrication method he and his research team have developed produces perovskite solar cells with an efficiency comparable to crystalline silicon cells, but it is potentially much cheaper than making silicon solar cells.

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To make the new cells, the researchers coated transparent conductive substrates with perovskite films that absorb sunlight very efficiently. They used a gas-solid reaction-based technique in which the substrate is first coated with a layer of hydrogen lead triiodide incorporated with a small amount of chlorine ions and methylamine gas – allowing them to reproducibly make large uniform panels, each consisting of multiple solar cells.

In developing the method, the scientists realized that making the perovskite layer 1 micron thick increased the working life of the solar cell significantly. “The solar cells are almost unchanged after working for 800 hours,” says Dr. Zonghao Liu, a postdoctoral scholar in Prof. Qi’s research unit at OIST and the first author of the study.

In addition, a thicker coating not only boosted the stability of the solar cells but also facilitated the fabrication processes, thereby lowering its production costs. “The thicker absorber layer ensures good reproducibility of solar cell fabrication, which is a key advantage for mass manufacturing in the realistic industrial-scale setting,” said Dr. Liu.
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The big challenge Professor Qi and his team now face is in increasing the size of their newly designed solar cell from the 0.1 mm square sized prototype to large commercial-sized panels that can be several feet long. This is where the industry can help.

“There exists a large gap between the findings in lab and reality, and the industry is not always ready to cover this entire gap by itself. So, the researchers need to take one more necessary step beyond their labs and meet the industry half-way,” said Qi.

To take that step, Prof. Qi and team received a generous grant from OIST’s Technology Development and Innovation Center, under their Proof-of-Concept Program. With that funding, the team has built a working model of their new perovskite solar modules consisting of multiple solar cells on 5cm × 5cm substrates, with an active area of 12 square cm – much bigger than their experimental prototype but smaller than what is required for commercial purposes.

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Although the process of up-scaling has reduced the efficiency of the cells from 20% to 15%, the researchers are optimistic that they will be able to improve the way they work in the coming years and successfully commercialize their use.

This pretty encouraging work. 20 percent efficiency at low cost is enticing, while 15% not so much. Where that 25% loss is caused must be of some considerable interest.

The new fabrication process looks very promising, as the scale loss is sure to be found and more efficiency is likely in there to be developed. With fresh funding this technology will likely pay off for producers and consumers. We’ll probably not be told in a few years our new device has this technology, but the device will cost less.

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[sarkasm] 07/9/2018 08:24

to-the-point: Total wins 112 MW of PV, hydro in French auctions
Solar panels. Photo by: Quadran (www.quadran.fr).

September 6 (Renewables Now) - French oil major Total SA (EPA:FP) has won 100 MW of solar and 12.2 MW of small hydro projects in recent auctions in France.

The company said Wednesday that its subsidiaries Total Solar and Direct Energie have won 15 projects in total in the latest solar tender. When up and running, these solar photovoltaic (PV) parks will produce over 120 GWh per year, or as much as is needed to power 45,000 homes in France, Total said.

French renewables developer Quadran, a unit of Direct Energie, earlier announced that it had won 10 solar projects with a combined capacity surpassing 65 MW in the solar auction, which awarded 720 MW in total. Total said yesterday that Quadran has also won five projects in the first public call for tenders for small hydropower plants (HPPs).

[jonc] 10/8/2018 11:36

How do you manage to post with those trotters?

Special keyboard or do you have a touch screen for your snout?

[adrian j boris] 10/8/2018 08:33

World’s Solar Power Capacity To Hit Major Milestone By 2023
By Tsvetana Paraskova - Aug 09, 2018, 10:00 PM CDT Solar

Despite the fact that China’s recent policy changes weigh on short-term forecasts, global solar capacity is expected to reach the 1 terawatt threshold by 2023, the latest quarterly report by GTM Research shows.

In early June, market researchers rushed to lower their solar capacity addition forecasts for this year after China surprised everyone by announcing that it would not issue approvals for any new solar power installations this year and would also cut the feed-in tariff subsidy that had been a major driver of the solar business in the country that accounts for as much as 50 percent of global capacity.
GTM Research reduced its China new solar capacity additions forecast by as much as 40 percent to 28.8 GW, with one analyst saying, “When the industry talks about China, it’s always about how demand in the region exceeds expectations. That is not going to be the case anymore.”

The new Chinese policy will have “significant ramifications for the global PV market,” says GTM Research’s Solar Market Outlook Update for Q2 report, as carried by BusinessGreen.

China is now likely to install 141 GW of solar capacity between now and 2023, compared to previous estimates of 206 GW, according to the report.

“Annual installations of 20-25GW will be the new normal for China, rather than 30-40GW,” it says.

After 2019, however, global solar capacity additions will be around 120 GW each year, with total solar capacity expected to cross the 1 TW mark by 2023.

Last week, Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) said its data indicated that there were 1,013 GW—crossing the 1-TW milestone—of combined wind and solar PV generating capacity installed worldwide as of June 30, 2018. According to BNEF estimates, the second terawatt of wind and solar will arrive by the middle of 2023 and cost 46 percent less than the first.

By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com

[uppompeii] 10/8/2018 08:33

That was me.. ?

[jonc] 10/8/2018 07:13

Strange going ons in Norfolk.

[shalder] 09/8/2018 21:51

Head for the hills!
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What's that?...oh right, Norfolk
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We're all doomed!

[uppompeii] 09/8/2018 21:40

There was sloshing in Norfolk today

[sarkasm] 09/8/2018 13:09

Airbus' solar-powered aircraft just flew for a record 26 days straight

The unmanned aircraft operates in the stratosphere at an average altitude of 70,000 feet and has a wingspan of 25 meters.
The solar powered aircraft's maiden flight lasted almost 26 days.

Anmar Frangoul
Published 40 Mins Ago CNBC.com









A Zephyr high-altitude solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle.
Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images
A Zephyr high-altitude solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle.

A solar-powered aircraft from the European aerospace giant Airbus has completed a maiden flight lasting 25 days, 23 hours, and 57 minutes.

The new Zephyr S HAPS (High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite) took off from Arizona on July 11 and went on to complete "the longest duration flight ever made," Airbus Defence and Space said in an announcement Wednesday. An application has been made to confirm the flight as a new world record.

The unmanned aircraft, a 75 kilogram Zephyr, offers what Airbus describes as "local satellite-like services" and runs on solar power. It operates in the stratosphere at an average altitude of 70,000 feet and has a wingspan of 25 meters.

"This very successful maiden flight represents a new significant milestone in the Zephyr program, adding a new stratospheric flight endurance record which we hope will be formalized very shortly," Jana Rosenmann, head of unmanned aerial systems at Airbus, said in a statement.

"We will in the coming days check all engineering data and outputs and start the preparation of additional flights planned for the second half of this year from our new operating site at the Wyndham airfield in Western Australia," Rosenmann added.

Solar-powered aircraft offer an intriguing glimpse of what the future of aviation could eventually look like. In 2016, the Solar Impulse 2, a manned aircraft powered by the sun, managed to circumnavigate the globe without using fuel. The trip was completed in 17 separate legs.
Anmar FrangoulFreelance Digital Reporter, CNBC.com

[sarkasm] 07/8/2018 15:52

Engie Wins 25 Solar Projects in French Tenders
07/08/2018 11:25am
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By Alberto Delclaux


Engie SA (ENGI.FR) said Tuesday that it has won 25 solar projects in France representing 230 megawatts, as part of the last session of a call for tenders.

In all, Engie said it won 550 megawatts in the four sessions of the tenders organized by the country's energy regulatory commission.



Write to Alberto Delclaux at [e-mail]



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[adrian j boris] 06/8/2018 18:50

ENGIE to build 8 hybrid solar power plants in Gabon
By Oil and Gas Republic on Aug 6, 2018@ogrepublic

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ENGIE to build 8 hybrid solar power plants in Gabon
The project will save the country 1 million litres of fuel oil per year, or 2,600 tonnes of CO2, and reduce generation costs by 30%
DAKAR, Senegal, — ENGIE (www.ENGIE-Africa.com) has signed an agreement with CDC, the Gabonese financial institution Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, to deploy eight hybrid solar power plants in Gabon, representing a combined capacity of 2.2 MW.

The implemented solution was developed by ENGIE’s subsidiary, Ausar Energy in collaboration with CDC, the Gabonese Ministry of Energy, and the Gabonese energy and water company Société; d’Énergie et d’Eau du Gabon (SEEG) and means that solar energy can be used in eight locations that are currently supplied by oil-fired thermal power stations.

With construction set to begin in a few weeks, this project will contribute to the Gabonese Republic’s proactive policy of using renewable energy – solar and hydropower – to increase the country’s energy capacities. The project will save the country 1 million litres of fuel oil per year, or 2,600 tonnes of CO2, and reduce generation costs by 30%.

Ausar Energy offers the African continent a hybrid solar power plant solution, with or without storage facilities, with capacities ranging from 50 kW to 2.5 MW. This solution is in line with ENGIE Group’s strategy of promoting decentralised generation and distribution of electricity from renewable sources. This strategic priority is designed to ensure continuous access to energy in isolated areas that are not and cannot be connected to grids, as well as to limit the consumption of fuel oil, manage costs and reduce pollution.
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[solsticefire] 31/7/2018 19:08

There will be sloshing.