Le blog du relooking de meubles: comment relooker un meuble, patiner un meuble - Coups de (Reloo)keurs. Unconsumption – Page 1. Autonomous robots to be used in keeping dust off solar panels in Israel’s biggest solar field, reports timesofisrael: Most solar energy farms are located in deserts, where there is plenty of sunlight — which solar panels, of course, need a lot of. But the desert also has a lot of dust, which clogs up the photovoltaic components of the panels, making them less effective in collecting sunlight for conversion into energy.
Panels have to be cleaned on a regular basis, but water in the desert tends to be expensive, if available at all — and the use of water to clean the panels raises the costs of production, making solar power too expensive to be considered anything more than a novelty…. Instead of using water to clean panels, Ecoppia’s robot cleaners are equipped with microfibers, with each robot assigned to a row of PV panels. Making Society | Adventure in the makers community of San Francisco.
Downloads and Extras in the Current Issue of MAKE Magazine | DIY Projects on makezine.com. Making 'MakerCulture: Taking Things into Our Own Hands' Check out the blog, wiki, podcasts, photostream and YouTube channel and feature stories, all part of a new series on The Tyee. Behind the scenes as 45 students create the MakerCulture series. For 12 weeks in the fall of 2009, 45 online journalism students at Ryerson University and the University of Western Ontario worked together to document the evolving Maker Culture community. Maker Culture? That's coders, fabricators, foodies, artists, educators, activists, citizen and even scientists grabbing the Do-It-Yourself ethic with both hands and changing our world in the process. These are people who aren't just making things, they're making a point of sharing what they've learned, what they've made, and why.
Often, for free. Makers are responding directly, locally to globalization, commercialization, copyright and central command and control. Sometimes they even helped it grow. Multi-media, multi-parts, multi-audiences Photos: Check out our photostream. Videos: On our You Tube channel.