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Airports can power entire cities with the help of solar panels Australia could successfully produce an estimated 466 Gigawatt hours (GWh) of electrical energy each year Officials suggested giving each house in far-off villages a solar panel, which would be cost effective and save investment in transmission lines, as connecting such remote areas to the national power grid was very costly. PHOTO: FILE According to a new study published by researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, if Australia installs solar panels on top of all 21 of its government-owned airports, the country...

Experts warn that we are running out of time to prevent the worst effects of global warming. For decades, scientists have been warning us that we need to fundamentally change our relationship with fossil fuels and land use, but now we’re down to the wire. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s premiere experts on the subject, say that we have fewer than 10 years to turn things around enough to keep the world from warming more than 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels in order to avoid complete ecological disaster.  “In the most hopeful scenario, innovation...

Why not turn airports into a giant solar factory? Next time when you take off or land you are looking out the window of the plane, give the airport a scan. You will see hangars and other support buildings and of course terminals. But most of all, you’ll see a lot of empty places. Airplanes, as many aeronautical engineers have pointed out, are like open spaces, for obvious reasons, including not fixing them with trees. Do you know what they like about open spaces too? Solar panels, which hate not only trees but also the shade of tall buildings. So why aren’t we covering our airports with ...

Credit: RMIT University A new study has found Australia's government-owned airports could produce enough electricity to power 136,000 homes, if they had large-scale rooftop solar systems installed. Researchers at RMIT University compared electricity generated by residential solar panels in a regional Australian city to the potential green energy production of 21 leased federal airports. They found if large-scale solar panels were installed at the airports, they would generate 10 times more electricity than the city's 17,000 residential panels, while offsetting 151.6 kilotons of greenhouse gas...

Aussie airports could generate enough solar energy to power a city A new study has found Australia’s government-owned airports could produce enough electricity to power 136,000 homes, if they had large-scale rooftop solar systems installed. Researchers at RMIT University compared electricity generated by residential solar panels in a regional Australian city to the potential green energy production of 21 leased federal airports. They found if large-scale solar panels were installed at the airports, they would generate 10 times more electricity than the city’s 17,000 residential panels, wh...