Solar Power isn't Feasible!
This cartoon was on the cover of the book "SolarGas" by David Hoye. It echoes the Sharp Solar slogan "Last time I checked nobody owned the sun!"
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This cartoon was on the cover of the book "SolarGas" by David Hoye. It echoes the Sharp Solar slogan "Last time I checked nobody owned the sun!"
Echnaton creates a Solar City (Heliopolis)
Hieroglyph shows Echnaton, the Egyptian Pharoah, working with solar energy
How to build your own Solar CITIES solar heater
Click on the image to see detailed plans for building your own Solar CITIES system like we build them in Cairo with the Zabaleen
How to build your own Solar CITIES brand HDPE Biogas Digestor
We've just completed 6 of our signature Solar CITIES designed cold-climate Biogas digestors with scientist Adam Low and the students of Cordova High School in Alaska. You can build one too! Click for a list of the materials you need.
How to build your own ARTI style "Zaballa Al Matbakh" (Kitchen Garbage) Biogas Digester
Anybody can build a kitchen waste biogas generator using simple everyday materials in one afternoon. Click here to learn how.(Picture: Culhane's first self-built ARTI digester in Egypt, shown with ex-wife Sybille and baby son Kilian Aurelius Culhane
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Nobody owns the sun? Think again!
Actually, it turns out that this assumption isn't true! Go back and reread David Ricardo and the principle of COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE, then look at this map in the 1/08 edition of "Welt der Wunder" Magazine. While economist Paul Craig Roberts notes that comparative advantage principles do not hold where the factors of production are internationally mobile (such as solar collectors), the solar radiation potential of different countries varies considerably. The yellow regions on this map show very clearly who will "own the sun" in Ricardian terms. (Note that Portugal could also produce wool and England wine, but Ricardo's logic turned England into an economic powerhouse.)
We're all in the same boat!
This cartoon, on a bulletin board at the entrance of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture as you leave the posh Al Azhar park and enter the slum community of Darb El Ahmar, reads "Just look at those poor fools, THEIR side of the boat is sinking!"
Hybrid rooftop animal shelter and solar hot water system
Solar CITIES coordinators Mahmoud Dardir and Hana Fathy building a temperature regulating goat shelter and solar hot water system on the roof on Zabaleen informal school teacher Adham Fawzi in Cairo
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Vote for the Solar CITIES programs at ideablob and we will be eligible for their monthly $10,000 prize:
At Solar CITIES we welcome your contributions and support for our projects bringing solar and renewable energy technologies to the urban and rural poor in developing countries. We also know your means are probably as limited as ours. Therefore we ask only this:
If you want to help, but cannot make a donation of your time or money or ideas, please simply consider making your purchases through our blogs and websites! We are Amazon.com affiliates, and everytime you buy a product from Amazon.com through our sites (such as this blog or our AStore at solarcities.eu) we get a tiny commission which, over time, can help us save up to build more solar roofs in the slums of Cairo.
So please, join us in this win-win situation by letting us be your link to Amazon.com whenever you buy books, DVDs, home and garden products or anything else! And don't forget to tell your friends!
Thanks!
The Solar CITIES team
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About Me
- T.H. Culhane
- T.H. Culhane (shown above in Athens, Greece, by the poster to the movie "Stealth" which he contributed vocal music to while working with his friend,composer Brian Transeau) lived in Egypt, Germany and the United States where he founded "Solar Cities". Referring to Herman Daly's comments on the sustainability of Spaceman Economies and Cowboy Economies, we are committed to Boulding and Fuller's notions of helping to maintain "spaceship earth" as a viable home. Thus T.H. completed his Ph.D. at UCLA in Urban Planning looking at issues surrounding microeconomic analysis of demand for hot water technologies. Ultimately it is hoped that this will help address implementation challenges for Solar Energy Policy while helping create an Environmental Economics Institute at AUC and a Sustainability Center at Mercy College in New York, in partnership with mentor professors (among them Randall Crane and Lois Takahashi (UCLA Institute of the Environment and UCLA Urban Planning) Jeff Miller (AUC Biology),Salah Arafa (AUC Physics) Tarek Selim (AUC Economics) Salah El Haggar (AUC Engineering) Nick Hopkins (AUC Anthropology) and Moshira Hassan (AUC Marine Ecology)
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I'd be concerned about the effect that the soapy water might have on the biogas generator over time. How long have you been running this way? Do you use any special soaps or shampoos? Are there certain chemicals in cleansers that need to be avoided? And on the flip side are there shampoos or soaps that actually assist in the biological process? Cool video btw.
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