📧 The March issue of e-EPS is out!
Enjoy your reading 👇
https://www.epsmail.org//w/Bkb3WVoHwqoZFjMZKHh2kA
#physics #condensed #matter #energy #conference #Europe #cern #teaching #solar #ERC
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This robot installs 80 panels/hour. One every 45 sec. 1,920/day ≈ 0.0008 GW/day per line.Sounds small. It’s not.Scale this across thousands of lines and #solar becomes manufacturing, not construction.👉 10,000 lines = 8 GW/day.That’s HOW China is winning the energy game.
CNN: As the US starves it of oil, Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet — with China’s help
"...Cuba is struggling with devastating nationwide blackouts as the United States’ effective oil blockade strangles fuel supplies. But this crisis may also be accelerating a China-backed clean energy revolution that’s been quietly unfolding in the Caribbean nation. ..."
https://lite.cnn.com/2026/05/13/climate/cuba-solar-us-oil-blockade-trump-china
The UK has finally realized that all the balcony solar being discussed as "plug in solar systems" leads to a very unfortunate acronym.
RE: https://zirk.us/@impermanen_/116839087894914100
Australia has arranged FREE ELECTRICITY during the day.
- Solar power so cheap, they give it away, to everyone. What a HUGE incentive to install home, community, and utility scale batteries.
Charge home batteries all day long. Charge EVs all day long. Run your business, all day long, no power bill.
That's the future.
Brilliant - congrats to whoever's driving Aus Labor Party climate/energy policy here.
I think the phrase is "Good on ya mate" but I've never been.
Thank you
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The world’s largest solar farm is greening the Tibetan desert: 20,000 sheep graze where yesterday there was only dust and solar panels.
#Paradox - the last 500 years scientists have invented lenses to see bigger and smaller things like out into the #solar system and into a #cell. Say the path of lens invention continues, is it likely that scientists might develop even better lenses that reveal more about matter and space, and if this continued, we might see things infinitely tinier than the cell? At least bigger than the Milky Way though. We agree that space might not end anywhere. But what if it goes infinitely smaller as well?
I'll have my telescope ready tomorrow for some awesome #solar #eclipse pics ☀️ + 🌔 = 🕶️ 🔭
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/netherlands?iso=20260812
Spain's Prime Minister says Spain doesn't, didn't, have wildfires "like Canada and Australia," and climate change is devastating.
"About 2,500 firefighters (including a Swiss team), 1,500 military personnel and about 1,200 police had been deployed to Gironde, Nuñez said, as he praised the contribution of 450 volunteers from civil security organisations.
He said another five municipalities had been evacuated overnight."
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LA Times: California produced over half its May electricity from solar, a world record
"...California hit a major milestone in May, generating more than half its electricity from the sun in what is believed to be a global first, according to a new analysis from the U.K.-based energy think tank Ember. ..."
Who on fedi has adopted balcony solar? Since Colorado has paved the way, we are considering it. I would love to hear about people's actual experiences, how much power they have been able to harvest, any issues, one panel vs. two panels, etc.
Please boost for reach.
An immer mehr Stellen in #Freiburg hängen die Plakate für den #Steckersolar Weltrekord 2026!
🫵 Mach auch du mit.
Anmelden: https://balkon.solar/weltrekord2026
Plakate & Flyer zum Mitnehmen und Verteilen liegen im Freilab.
#freiburg #Steckersolar #maker #Klimaschutz #solar #DIY
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