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Jouni OH3CUF<p>"They say sunspot maximum is the golden age for HAMs..."</p><p>Well, I'm now two summers deep into this relentless solar burping and D-layer thickening — and I respectfully disagree.</p><p>Maybe the solar minimum is even worse? </p><p>Either way, I’d like to file a complaint with the universe. I want my money back :D </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/hamradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hamradio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/solarcycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarcycle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/sunspotmaximum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sunspotmaximum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/radiofun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radiofun</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/ionosphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ionosphere</span></a></p>
Dr. John Barentine FRAS<p>“As a result of this low skill in our forecasts, <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceX</span></a> saw 20 kilometers of position error in their one-day computations. If we’re uncertain in where our spacecraft are by 20 kilometers, then you can throw collision avoidance out the window.”</p><p><a href="https://spacenews.com/geomagnetic-storms-cause-mass-migrations-of-satellites/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">spacenews.com/geomagnetic-stor</span><span class="invisible">ms-cause-mass-migrations-of-satellites/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Space</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Satellites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Satellites</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/SpaceSustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceSustainability</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Atmosphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atmosphere</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Cycle25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cycle25</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/SolarCycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarCycle</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/SSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SSA</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Hackaday Links: August 25, 2024 - The Sun has been remarkably active lately, so much so that it might have set a new... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/08/25/hackaday-links-august-25-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2024/08/25/hackad</span><span class="invisible">ay-links-august-25-2024/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hackadaycolumns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hackadaycolumns</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hackadaylinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hackadaylinks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/solardynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solardynamics</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/solarcycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarcycle</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ism900mhz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ism900mhz</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/spacefood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spacefood</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/spectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spectrum</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/capstan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capstan</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/doritos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>doritos</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/lorawan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lorawan</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/roofing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>roofing</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/shingle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shingle</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/sunspot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sunspot</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/scara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scara</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/iss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iss</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/sdo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sdo</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sun</span></a></p>

Closed loop? Reused #SolarPanels to power solar panel #recycling facility

Sean Wolfe
7.26.2024

"#SolarCycle, a solar recycling company, has installed an on-site solar farm made of reused solar panels that will power its industrial solar panel recycling facility.

"The reused panels come from decommissioned utility-scale solar farms and residential installations across the United States. SOLARCYCLE says the project serves as a model of how to power an industrial facility through renewable energy as the US ramps up domestic manufacturing capacity. It will also help to build a fully closed loop, ultra-low carbon solar industry in America.

"The 500KW system made from around 1,000 reused panels will provide around 50% of the electricity SOLARCYCLE uses to power their advanced recycling factory in #OdessaTexas. SOLARCYCLE’s plan is to expand this secondhand power plant to continue to generate more of the company’s energy demands, including its facilities in #MesaArizona, and #CedartownGeorgia. Two of SOLARCYCLE’s customers provided a significant percentage of the secondhand solar panels in use — #Ørsted from their own Texas utility-scale operations and #Sunrun, from their residential operations.

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"Earlier this year, SOLARCYCLE announced it would invest an estimated $344 million into a new #SolarGlass manufacturing facility in #CedartownGeorgia. The company said it would be the 'first-of-its-kind' in the United States to use recycled materials from retired solar panels to make new solar glass.

"The facility will be located in Cedartown North Business Park, a Georgia Ready for Accelerated Development (GRAD) certified site in Cedartown. The plant, which will be the first of SOLARCYCLE’s facilities to manufacture glass in addition to recycling solar panels, was scheduled to begin construction this year and is expected to be operational in 2026.

"SOLARCYCLE currently operates two solar panel recycling facilities in the United States and says its recycling technology allows it to extract up to 95% of the value from used solar panels. SOLARCYCLE’s new plant in Georgia will make the company one of the first manufacturers of specialized glass for crystalline-silicon (c-Si) #photovoltaics in the U.S., with the capacity to make 5 to 6 GW worth of solar glass every year, it said. The glass will be sold directly back to the domestic solar manufacturers.

"Solar photovoltaics are often recycled the same way as glass, cars, computer monitors, TVs, or lighting, but the process only recovers about 80% of PV materials. Nonspecialized recycling is one of the challenges to achieving a circular economy for solar photovoltaics.

"While the moral incentive to recycle solar panels is clear, little financial incentive exists today. Recycling a solar panel ranges in cost from $20 to $30, while dumping the same panel in a landfill runs $1 to $2 – but SOLARCYCLE believes the cost to #landfill to be much higher when factoring in logistics costs."

renewableenergyworld.com/solar

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Why has the sea surface temperature ( #SST ) increased so fast this past year and a half? Are #climate models missing key factors?

The article provides a good overview of some of the compounding effects (SO2 aerosols, #solarcycle 25, #water vapour from the Hunga Tonga #eruption and El Nĩno), but is it enough to explain what’s happening? Either way, it’s an enormous amount of heat.

#climatechange #globalwarming
newyorker.com/news/daily-comme

The New Yorker · Why Is the Sea So Hot?By Elizabeth Kolbert
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@dan613 the 2010 article by @rahmstorf mentions "While the cooling during some volcanic episodes appears to be slightly overestimated in our model (possibly suggesting an underestimate of the effect of #SolarActivity)...Further research is needed to resolve this issue." agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.co

The current #SolarCycle seems to begin earlier and to be more active than predicted, which leads to the assumption that "further research is needed" (over a longer period than the last 2000 years)

The Sun has been more active than expected in the past year, producing more sunspots and solar flares than predicted. This contradicts the forecasts of a quiet solar cycle based on the Sun’s 11-year magnetic activity cycle. The increased solar activity could affect Earth’s climate, satellites, and power grids and create spectacular auroras.

#Sun #SolarCycle #SpaceWeather skyatnightmagazine.com/space-s