SolarFi Networks

The internet has become a crucial utility, yet unlike water and electricity, quality broadband service in the U.S. is far from universal.

The Public Internet Option How Local Governments Can Provide Network Neutrality, Privacy, and Access for All

The introduction of Wi-Fi hotspots in Cuban public spaces has transformed the Communist-run island. http://reut.rs/2yMk95P

Should the SolarFi project reboot with a rural focus instead of an urban one ?
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv4a5w/heres-a-glimpse-at-what-living-with-modern-rural-internet-is-really-like

What Living With Modern Rural Internet is Really Like The FCC chairman wants to make it easier to bring broadband to rural areas, and it's a noble goal.

We follow the same principals.

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Solar, it's not just where the money is at, it's a pillar of the economy now.

Clean energy employs more people than fossil fuels in nearly every U.S. state Trump’s upcoming executive order meant to boost fossil fuel jobs may end up harming an even bigger job creator — renewable energy.

Renewables hitting another milestone, this time in India.

India sets new solar tariff low, now beating domestic coal generation India solar prices fall again, now at a record low for the subcontinent and cheaper than the cost of domestic coal generation.

Solar group buys!

Minnesota cities learn from buying community solar together The nation's first ever attempt to have municipal governments collectively buy power from community solar gardens was a modest success, according to a new report.

A really nice and expandable solar thermal system.
https://solarthermalmagazine.com/2016/10/13/worlds-first-fresnel-lens-concentrated-solar-thermal-energy-power-plant/

World’s First Fresnel Lens Concentrated Solar Thermal Energy Power Plant - Solar Thermal Magazine Daily clean energy news for solar thermal and PV, wind, wave, tidal and bio-fuels. All energy that comes from the sun.

Solar, it's for job creators.

Solar employs more U.S. workers than Apple, Google and Facebook combined The global solar market has soared 30-fold in just 9 years

Tennessee Could Give Taxpayers America's Fastest Internet For Free "Tennessee will literally be paying AT&T to provide a service 1000 times slower than what Chattanooga could provide without subsidies."

https://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/11/private-microwave-networks-financial-hft/

The secret world of microwave networks Has anyone spanned the Atlantic with floating microwave masts yet? We're not sure...

It is now cheaper to build a solar plant instead of coal or gas plant.

Northern Lights: Large-Scale Solar Power Is Spreading Across the US Once largely confined to the sunny Southwest, utility-scale solar power plants are now being built everywhere from Minnesota to Alabama to Maine.