Itโ€™s well and truly autumn now. I had to put on a sweater and socks, and Iโ€™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 ๐Ÿ˜…

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 eโ€ฆ

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
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