It’s well and truly autumn now. I had to put on a sweater and socks, and I’m using my SAD sun lamp for the first time this year. I forgot how much of a charge this thing gives me! #solarpowered
Local Church Makes Solar-Powered Lights To Distribute To Energy-Poor Communities Around The World - CleanTechnica

I built SolarBuddy lights for energy-poor areas and explained the project's impact on education and safety.

CleanTechnica

A small update on my solar website:

  • Reached 20 days of uptime
  • I made small tweaks to the CSS, added float for images, and adapting to mobile screens. Me writing CSS, nobody expected that, especially me.
  • Added traffic statistics from vnstat

And that is the curious part. Why is my Pi Zero pulling ~55MB of data each day? It's not the website traffic, because that is being done on the wg0 interface. I'm guessing apt checking for updates, Wireguard keep-alive connections and other minor background stuff? Anyone knows?

https://solar.stfn.pl/en/

#solarpowered #solarpunk

Solar powered website

@GreenFire and contributing to the suffering of countless others around the world, now and into the future.

#StopFlying, #DriveOnSunshine, live a #SolarPowered life. Eat #PlantBased meals. #StopFascism #BeKind

It ALL matters. We are out of time. It's too late to do nothing.

These solar-powered shipping containers house 280 homeless Arizonans amid scorching summer heat

The new X-WING facility is a new approach to helping homeless residents get off the street and into somewhere safe and cool.

Good Good Good

Part 2 of my FreeCAD learning series is up!

Went from "how hard could it be?" to actually making progress on my solar-powered Terminal Dawn enclosure. This week: wrestling with the Move/Array tool and discovering the magic of Trim Edge in the sketcher.

Spoiler: FreeCAD and I are in a complicated situationship πŸ˜…

Includes a step-by-step breakdown of the Array workflow that works.

#FreeCAD #CAD #3DDesign #SolarPowered #RaspberryPi #OffGrid #MakerSpace #TutorialSeries

https://terminaldawn.dev/posts/freecad-series-part-2/

Freecad Series Part 2

FreeCAD and I are in a complicated situationship

Terminal Dawn

Aptera Solar EV: Driving on Sunshine

We talk about the Aptera Solar EV, a revolutionary electric vehicle that can drive up to 40 miles daily powered solely by sunlight captured through solar panels integrated into its roof. This car eliminates the need for a traditional battery, offering pure solar-powered freedom with no range anxiety or need for charging stations. #SolarEV #ElectricVehicle #RangeAnxiety #SolarPowered #FuelFree from Tesla In The Gong

https://teslainthegongyt.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/aptera-solar-ev-driving-on-sunshine/

Aptera Solar EV: Driving on Sunshine

We talk about the Aptera Solar EV, a revolutionary electric vehicle that can drive up to 40 miles daily powered solely by sunlight captured through solar panels integrated into its roof. This car e…

Tesla In The Gong

This sun-powered sponge pulls drinking water straight from the ocean https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250702214145.htm

A #SolarPowered sponge-like aerogel that turns seawater into drinkable water using just sunlight.

This sun-powered sponge pulls drinking water straight from the ocean

In a leap toward sustainable desalination, researchers have created a solar-powered sponge-like aerogel that turns seawater into drinkable water using just sunlight and a plastic cover. Unlike previous materials, this new 3D-printed aerogel maintains its efficiency at larger sizes, solving a key scalability issue. In outdoor tests, it produced clean water directly from the ocean without any electricity, pointing to a future of low-cost, energy-free freshwater production.

ScienceDaily