Tipton school corporation says solar farm will save $2.2M

File photo File photo TIPTON, Ind. — A central Indiana school superintendent says his district’s newly installed solar farm should save it more than $2 million over 20 years. The Tipton Community School Corp.’s nearly 2,000 solar panels went online last month at the district’s Tipton campus. The Kokomo Tribune reports the array can produce up to 600 kilowatts of power …

Voyager 2 May Leave Our Solar System Soon, NASA Says

lt;img class=”styles__noscript__2rw2y” src=”https://browardsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/16642_heliosphere.jpg” srcset=”https://browardsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/16642_heliosphere.jpg 400w, https://dsx.weather.com/util/image/w/heliosphere.jpg?v=apw=980h=551api=7db9fe61-7414-47b5-9871-e17d87b8b6a0 800w” gt; The space probe Voyager 1 may soon have company in interstellar space.  Voyager 2 has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system, NASA announced. That could indicate the probe, which was launched 41 years ago, is nearing the edge of the heliosphere, a giant bubble that surrounds …

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Chernobyl’s uninhabitable land is the home of a new solar plant

Across from the decommissioned nuclear plant are 3,800 solar panels, enough to power around 2,000 homes. The area hasn’t produced power since Chernobyl’s infamous nuclear power plant officially shut down in 2000 and Valery Seyda, head of the plant, told Reuters that it looked like it might never do so again. “But now we are seeing a new sprout, still …

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Science and technology will slow deforestation, clean environment

Trees are felled at the rate of 27 football fields per minute worldwide. The World Bank says garbage is overcoming the developing world. The two forces simply spell doom for humanity. In Kenya, institutions such as schools, hospitals, universities, prisons and hotels contribute significantly to the deforestation and garbage problems. They use a lot of wood fuel for their heat …

Chernobyl Has a New Power Plant, But This Time It’s Solar

Since 2000, the power plant at Chernobyl has been inactive. Even after the infamous meltdown in 1986, the other nuclear reactors at the facility continued operating until the turn of the century. But for 18 years, Chernobyl has been nothing but an abandoned wasteland. A newly-completed project changes that, however, and thanks to 3,800 installed solar panels Chernobyl can supply …

Owners of Possom Tail Farm give tours of solar-energy system

TERRA ALTA — On a recent Saturday morning, with the sun shining down on our state, Brian Kahly of Possum Tail Farm in Terra Alta checked his electricity meter and saw his farm’s solar panels already produced 30 more kilowatt hours than the farm used. The farm’s 52-panel system, connected directly to MonPower’s electricity grid, was installed by Mountain View …