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Babcock Ranch aims to be first solar-powered town in US | USA News | Al Jazeera

BySustainMe

Babcock Ranch aims to be first solar-powered town in US | USA News | Al Jazeera: This is in partnership with FPL (Nextera) for the power. The powerplant is already up and running that will support an almost 200,000 home community.  FPL has extended the solar to include 10 megawatts of battery, thus allowing the solar power plant to offer more flexibility to the power grid and on-demand peaking power. The 440 acres for the…

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Solar Fit 052618 by flaglerbroadcasting Elmer Hall with Bill Gallagher EE & Telework

BySustainMe

Solar Fit 052618 by flaglerbroadcasting | Free Listening on SoundCloud: Folks, Give a listen to my May 26th appearance on the Solar-Fit radio show with host Bill Gallagher, “Solar Fit Renewable Energy Show” on channel 106.3 FM WNZF News Radio. (Elmer Hall on 05/26/18). You can also find the show, and past shows, archived at Solar-Fit:  https://solar-fit.com/solar-fit-renewable-energy-show/ It is a fun and informative show. I talked about our collective missed opportunities in energy efficiencies (EE) in buildings and telecommuting (Sustainable Remote Work centers)….

Consensus too, outcomes and consensus

ByDel Phi

Consensus continues to be a big issue is designing a Delphi Study. It is more than a little helpful to figure out how the results will be presented and how consensus will be determined. Even if consensus is not really necessary, any and all Delphi studies will be looking for the level of agreement as a critical aspect of the research. Look at our prior blog article  Consensus: Let’s agree to look for agreement, not…

Jury Awards Apple $539 Million in Samsung Patent Case – The New York Times

ByBizMan

Jury Awards Apple $539 Million in Samsung Patent Case – The New York Times: The do-over award to Apple from Samsung on the patents law suit (and damages) is down to $539M from the original $1B. Here’s info on the original infringement ruling of $1B. VentureBeat has a good take on this as well. The war chest of patents — world wide — is massive in order to play in the smart phone and tablet…

Landmark lawsuit claims Monsanto hid cancer danger of weedkiller, plus Glyphosate fate

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Landmark lawsuit claims Monsanto hid cancer danger of weedkiller for decades | Business | The Guardian: There is lots of mounting evidence against Roundup, and/or the use of genetically modified crops. The research seems to be evenly split between the research paid for by Monsanto ( directly or indirectly ) and the more independent research that points to issues. The evidence is pretty clear, however, of the negative impact of prolonged glyphosate use on the…

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California Becomes First State to Mandate Solar on New Homes – Bloomberg

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California Becomes First State to Mandate Solar on New Homes – Bloomberg: California is 1/3 of the US economy and probably 1/3 of the US housing market. So, when California voted today to have mandatory solar on most new construction houses, this blows the top off of the non-solar rooftop. Headlines read that the CA house will now cost about an additional $10,000 to build with the energy efficiency and solar roof mandates. This Bloomberg…