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- 7 steps toward a future-friendly EPR strategySustainability in the era of extended producer responsibility is a data problem first, and a strategy problem second. If neither is addressed, it becomes a big budgetary problem. The post 7 steps toward a future-friendly EPR strategy appeared first on Trellis.
- What’s next for the ISO net-zero standardThe International Organization for Standardization must review feedback from more than 170 member organizations before requesting final approval. The post What’s next for the ISO net-zero standard appeared first on Trellis.
- How the right language can convince skeptics to support corporate climate actionClimate-skeptical Republicans will back action on emissions provided there is a business angle to the argument. The post How the right language can convince skeptics to support corporate climate action appeared first on Trellis.
- Target delays key emissions goals
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Home Solar Systems: Worth the Cost?
Humanity has acknowledged the power of the sun since prehistoric times, awed by the glowing orb whose presence creates day and whose absence plunges the world into darkness.
For all our advances in science and technology, most of the power from the sun still eludes us. NASA reports that we use only one ten-thousandth of the sun’s energy.
Photovoltaic (PV) solar electrical systems offer new and ever-changing ways to harness that energy. The term “photovoltaic” literally means light-electricity.
In 1839, French physicist Edmond Becquerel discovered that sunlight could produce an electric current. Another century would pass before scientists fully understood that this process happens at the atomic level. Albert Einstein’s only Nobel Prize was awarded for his work on the photoelectric effect. By 1958, the space program was using solar cells. Continue reading
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