While not a 1970s scifi horror flick, Sunday Paper's spectacular short film Light is certainly haunting. For a fascinating and beautiful minute and a half short film, it certainly carries an elegiac note. Just watch it! Light from Sunday Paper on Vimeo.
Read More art, eco, eco-friendly, efficiency, energy, environment, film, green, public, reminder, short film, VideoI saw an interesting article this weekend from CNN World's website. A company called Eight19 has created a pay-as-you-go solar technology called IndiGo that is being deployed right now in Kenya. Check this out, this is Simon Bransfield Garth, the CEO of Eight19. I knew I would like this company as soon as I realized [...]
Read More Eight19, IndiGo, LED, pay as you go, phone charging, photovoltaic, PV, Solar, South Kenya, top upI just ran across this great infographic about how Natural Gas compares to sustainable forms of power generation and collection. It's pretty eye-opening; even Uranium mining looks fairly attractive when compared to natural gas, and that's the most ridiculous thing I've heard all week. I've posted a 650px version of the infographic, but this thing [...]
Read More danger, infographic, Natural GasNow, I know what you're thinking – well, unless it's hey, I wonder where I put the remote… Switch Lighting has come out with an absolutely beautiful series of lamps that are being tested right now in "several distinct hospitality properties." This thing is absolutely beautiful, as are Switch Lighting's other LED A-lamp designs, holy [...]
Read More A-Lamp, incandescent replacement, LED, water cooledBack a while ago I got some info about a kid named Aidan Dwyer doing some work with solar power collection. Do you remember that article? The kid, a 13 year old kid, was testing whether a flat solar panel array was as efficient in collecting solar power as a tree-based Fibonacci-sequence-spaced "tree" array that [...]
Read More Aiden Dwyer, American Museum of Natural History, controversy, fibonacci, media, Solar, solar arrays, treesDoesn't that just sound like the biggest nerd pr0n video of all time?! I just saw an article over at ThinkProgress.org about a solar power plant in Spain that is using reflected solar thermal power to heat salts that stay molten for a long time, and then using that heat during the evening hours to [...]
Read More heliostat, Solar, solar power, solar thermal power, SpainIf you understand the panel surface area (or even the general collector surface area) needed to power something with solar, you will look at this and say to yourself, "well DUH, self!" If you have no idea, however, which is going to be most of the people on the planet, I hope you are surprised [...]
Read More big coal, big oil, power the world, solar power, total solar, zero carbon emissionsThis is some funny sh*t. Fox just sent me this, it has to be posted and linked all over the freaking place, this is too funny. Talk about a perfect example of how solar works, right into the pockets of big oil and big coal! Original post here, thanks Visual.ly!
Read More big coal, big oil, comedy, satire, SolarHere at JimOnLight.com, sense is trying to be made of the current labyrinth (movie starring Jennifer Connolly and David Bowie) that is the Energy Independence and Safety Act (EISA). As we dig deeper and deeper into a piece of legislation that could actually do some good if it wasn't so heavily balanced on income, news of some [...]
Read More civil lighting, confusion, legislation, PART L, UK Building RegulationsAs many of you know, today is the 25th anniversary of the nightmare scenario that occurred on April 26, 1986 in Pripyat, Ukraine. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant performed an experiment that day that somehow caused massive catastrophic failure of critical systems which then caused a catastrophic explosion of the reactor and reactor complex. Highly radioactive fallout then [...]
Read More Chernobyl, Daiichi, Fukushima, Fukushima Daiichi, INES, INES Scale, International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, nuclear disasters, nuclear power, power plants, Pripyat