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Ameresco and Sunel Group have begun construction on a multiple solar PV park project portfolio, on behalf of Sonnedix, across the U.K.

The design-build projects will consist of five ground-mounted solar PV parks throughout England designed to generate approximately 300,000 MWh of renewable electricity per year. The parks include Cowley Complex, Gonerby Solar, Winkburn Solar Farm, Gammaton Solar Farm and Lawns Solar Farm.

“We are thrilled to partner with Sunel as Sonnedix converts its UK project pipeline to deliver positive clean energy results that will benefit many individuals across the UK,” says Ameresco’s Britta MacIntosh. “Solar energy solutions are a critical part of the clean energy transition, and we are so happy to work with partners who feel just as passionately about tackling decarbonization goals.”

Sonnedix is the owner of the portfolio. Ameresco Sunel Energy, a joint venture between Ameresco and Sunel, will serve as the design build partner. The portfolio is already fully contracted under the UK government’s Contracts for Difference scheme, which provides a guaranteed price for electricity through 15-year contracts with the low carbon contracts company.

“We are excited to be executing our UK pipeline, contributing to the UK’s overall supply of clean energy and energy security,” says Axel Thiemann, Sonnedix’s CEO. “Accelerating the energy transition requires action and effort among many groups, and we are delighted to work with Ameresco and Sunel, who we know have a track record of successful clean energy projects.”

Once construction is completed, the combined parks are anticipated to produce enough clean energy to power 85,000 UK homes and avoid 58,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions annually, says Ameresco.

Construction on the solar portfolio is expected to reach completion by early 2025.

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How and Why We Conduct Science

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To the author of the meme here (if it’s an actual human being, vs. a Russian bot): to the best of my knowledge, the only actual major “scientific fraud” in world history was “Piltdown Man.”  In 1912, a pseudo-anthropologist attempted to fool the scientific community into believing he had discovered the “missing link” between apes and humans.

Now, are there examples of instances when the science of the day turned out to be incorrect?

Of course, and new instances of this surface every day.

Think of how little when scientists believed 200 years ago is still intact today.  Perhaps most obviously, Newtonian mechanics has fallen to relativity and quantum physics, but there are hundreds of other paradigm shifts in health and medicine, psychology, cellular biology, chemistry, and particle physics.

Contrary to what conspiracy theorists want you to believe, science is not a set of facts; it’s a methodology whereby we come to learn more about ourselves and the world around us.

Are there other methods by which we “learn?”  Sure.  Some uneducated guy goes on YouTube and becomes convinced that our consumption of fossil fuels is not causing the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans to rise.  I would argue that this conduct is inferior to the scientific method.

How and Why We Conduct Science

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Trump’s Only Real Talents: Attracting Attention and Controlling Morally Weak People

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Trump is not an idiot.  His IQ may not be too high, but he’s smart enough to know how to conduct himself in his lifelong quest to amass more wealth and power at the expense of everyone else on Earth.

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Modern Humankind in a Nutshell

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At left we see the moral bankruptcy that guides our civilization.

I recall many years ago, when Musk was becoming a “thing,” writing a post to the effect that, “What a terrible shame.  We really didn’t need just one more super-rich asshole on this beleaguered planet.”

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