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Driving on Sunshine

So I was reading this pieceposted today on the SolarCoin slack by Nick Gogerty... in particular this bit: “With 1 m² of photovoltaics, it’s possible to drive 1,...

7-Day Wayback Music Challenge: Day 2

Warning: may contain swearing, my precious... A snotty, cocky 13 year old walks into Mere Green Records and Tapes. Me (thinking: they'll never have this in stoc...

7-Day Wayback Music Challenge: Day 1

Ooh, this looks like fun - thanks to @scalextrix for the nomination... I think... Wow, just seven songs from my youth, I will have to make these count! First up...

SolarCoin – The Sleeping Giant

Energy is the backbone of technology and thus our future. Consequently, the cryptocurrencies of greatest interest to me are those connected with energy. A few p...

Solar Generators Receive $1.8 million of SolarCoin so far in 2018

Solar Generators have received a total of $1.8 million of the SolarCoin digital currency so far this year, figures show.  The SolarCoin Foundation, whose p...

Cryptocurrencies, the agent of change!

The world is changing fast and so is the concept of money. In earlier days, people used various techniques to measure the value of goods and services. Trade by ...

SolarCoin y la Solaridad

SolarCoin es una criptomoneda creada en 2014 por un grupo de voluntarios interesados ​​en crear un incentivo para beneficiar el medio ambiente. Cada SolarCoin e...

Por qué deberías comprar SolarCoin

Antes de decirte por qué deberías comprar SolarCoin, si nunca has oído hablar de esta criptomoneda te invito que leas este artículo. Para los que ya sabéis qué ...

Nice here...

Thanks for the heads-up Will :)Nice work from Caroline Lucas re. Fracking:https://twitter.com/CarolineLucas/status/956527761157492738...

MERCH!

A couple of weeks ago in the comments section one of Will Cottrrell's marvellous posts, @willcottrell, @gregan and @lpninja and myself were riffing on how to ge...

The Volta Factor

For a short while now I have been posting about The Solarity - the point at which the utility auction bid price in $/MWh by a Solar PV operator is matched by th...

Introducing The Solarity Tracker

I've been messing around with Google Charts and javascript to try put the concept of approaching The Solarity in some kind of visual form. (For anyone unfamilia...

Solarcoin Crypto Community Raises £10,000 for UK Charity SolarAid

The community surrounding the digital currency SolarCoin donated £10,000 to UK charity SolarAid over Christmas, helping provide cheap solar lighting to people i...

Local Volunteer Promotion of #SolarCoin; Tips and Stories of Building a Global Solar Community #1

.jpg) Dozens of new solar energy producers are signing up every month to receive their free SolarCoin reward (I counted 85 welcomed in January!) If you are one ...

Something Strange Happened on the Way to The Solarity

"... er.. copy that Houston... that’s… er… is this thing working...? ... say again Houston… do you copy? Over..." The players: EcoEnergy - a small, independent ...

Five Things You Can Do This Week to Promote SolarCoin, Quit Your Job, and Do Whatever You Want For the Rest of Your Life

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SolarCoin Rallies again, Gains 42%

The price of the digital currency SolarCoin (SLR) rallied again on Thursday, rising by 42% during the 24-hour period before UK lunchtime.  Over the previou...

The Solarity

The Solarity: a made-up word for the point at which the price of 1 SolarCoin (SLR) equals the bid price for 1MWh of solar PV generation. (Thank you to James Pry...