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Solar Power Coming of Age
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Solar Power Coming of Age
Hi! I would like to introduce myself. My name is Steve. I started the BlogOnSmog website about a year ago, initially blogging on a host of different green topics. A couple of months ago I decided to recruit more bloggers and introduce different day-of-week topics. The recruitment has been relatively successful and there are now 5 bloggers here excluding myself.
While I am searching for two more bloggers to complete the 7-day week, I have decided to fill in the missing two blog days and write the posts for Solar Sunday and Techno Tuesday myself. Solar Sunday is dedicated to all forms of renewable energy, including but not restricted to: solar, wind and hydro-electric power. Techno Tuesday is a blog about green technology. I expect there will be overlap between the two blogs (as I discuss solar technology for example) but hopefully this will be kept to a minimum. I'll try to focus on applications on Sundays and details behind the technology on Tuesdays.
I am very excited about the Solar Sunday blog. The majority of people do not realize that most of the world's energy resources originate from the sun's rays striking the earth. Some energy is preserved as fossil fuel, while some is usable indirectly as wind, hydro or wave power. Most of the renewable energy we take advantage of is hydro-electric as seen in the pie chart below.
Steve Auger
Founder of www.BlogOnSmog.com
Hi! I would like to introduce myself. My name is Steve. I started the BlogOnSmog website about a year ago, initially blogging on a host of different green topics. A couple of months ago I decided to recruit more bloggers and introduce different day-of-week topics. The recruitment has been relatively successful and there are now 5 bloggers here excluding myself.
While I am searching for two more bloggers to complete the 7-day week, I have decided to fill in the missing two blog days and write the posts for Solar Sunday and Techno Tuesday myself. Solar Sunday is dedicated to all forms of renewable energy, including but not restricted to: solar, wind and hydro-electric power. Techno Tuesday is a blog about green technology. I expect there will be overlap between the two blogs (as I discuss solar technology for example) but hopefully this will be kept to a minimum. I'll try to focus on applications on Sundays and details behind the technology on Tuesdays.
I am very excited about the Solar Sunday blog. The majority of people do not realize that most of the world's energy resources originate from the sun's rays striking the earth. Some energy is preserved as fossil fuel, while some is usable indirectly as wind, hydro or wave power. Most of the renewable energy we take advantage of is hydro-electric as seen in the pie chart below.
Source:
Wikipedia Commons
In spite of the distribution of renewable energy projects, I will spend
a fair amount of my time blogging about solar power, simply because the
technologies and applications are fast coming of age. Researchers
are not only pushing the envelope of light conversion efficiency, they
are reducing production costs and matching technologies to specific
applications. Please tune in next week!Steve Auger
Founder of www.BlogOnSmog.com