COOL SOLAR ENERGY HAPPENINGS

Cool Solar Happenings

With a partner, check out some cool solar projects around the world. Discuss the following:

• Which ones sound smart to you?
• What projects do you think Portland should try?
• Do you think Solar is a sustainable option to meet energy needs?

Community Solar Gardens

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/07/09/3674045/community-solar-gardens-grow/

Solar creating more jobs than oil and gas extraction

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/01/12/3737971/solar-job-growth/

Largest Solar Farm - Mojave Desert http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2560494/Worlds-largest-solar-farm-SCORCHING-BIRDS-fly-it.html

Germany

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-08-14/germany-reaches-new-levels-of-greendom-gets-31-percent-of-its-electricity-from-renewables

Solar Thermal - using mirrors to boil water and turn steam turbine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onFagHKBUog

http://www.neok12.com/video/Solar-Energy/zX02775d447d450959617a59.htm

Solar Roadways

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1_ut9GIr-U

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/04/solar-roads-the-future-of-clean-energy.html

Solar Cars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7FV4YHF6jM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYtWl0TtaKU

Japan’s offshore solar project

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovations/Is-Japans-Offshore-Solar-Power-Plant-the-Future-of-Renewable-Energy-180949453/?no-ist

Home solar ...new battery technology

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/new-renewable-energy-play-launches-in-melbourne-20151127-gl9urr.html