Superb observation again from Russell

I urge you to watch this series, “Great Reset”, why is this Eric Schmidt guy and others like him so highly regarded, insane, we hand over power more and more under the illusion we are gaining it? Tweet

Forget Google? Maybe it’s time to start using Ecosia?

Christian Kroll, the founder and chief executive of internet search engine Ecosia wants nothing less than to change the world. https://info.ecosia.org/what “I want to make the world a greener, better place,” he says. “I also want to prove that there is a more ethical alternative to the kind of greedy […]

It’s that e-Waste issue again?

Hello again, it’s almost one year since our last post on this issue, we all need an update and reminder it seems?. So, just to let you know…. At Green ISP we don’t send out a Router to customers for every order, we ask customers to pay for one if […]

Think before sending pointless and unnecessary emails?

Hi again, one of our customers pointed out something interesting today, something the Brother of the Inventor of the WWW, namely Mike Berners-Lee suggested. Mike Berners-Lee, who advised on some recent research told the Guardian’s Steven Moss. “When you are typing, your computer is using electricity,” According to Mike Berners-Lee, […]

Can you reuse your Broadband router when switching supplier? 3

Hi again. Here’s one issue that crops up again and again when potential customers wishing to switch to Green ISP find it (as we do) a little strange that the bigger ISP’s “Lock Down” thier Broadband Routers? What this means is that anyone wishing to switch cannot “Re-Use” their existing […]

Bitcoin consumes more energy than Switzerland! Can Crypto Go Green?

Hello again. Did you know that mining Bitcoin and Crypto-currency trading consumes more power than it takes to run some small countries… Incredible but true (estimated by CBECI*). The energy cost of simply running a datacentre is increasing exponentially. So what’s the vision? Is BitCoin going to end up on […]

Solar Thermal (steam turbine) power could be one answer to solar power 24/7

Could Solar Thermal such as the unique thermosolar power station in southern Spain shrug off cloudy days?… Well.. YES: energy stored when the sun shines lets it produce electricity even during the night. The Gemasolar station, up and running since last May 2012, stands out in the plains of Andalusia.

Since then there have been a few more like this one in the US….. at the Ivanpah solar thermal plant in California (neat Vegas), a 400 megawatt facility that uses mirrors to reflect sunlight onto energy towers instead of burning coal to make steam.

Concentrated solar power (also called concentrating solar power, concentrated solar thermal, and CSP) systems generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight onto a small area.
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