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Getting Serious about Solar for Disaster Response and Recovery

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Two seemingly separate trends are currently colliding. One is the more severe and widespread damage being inflicted on electric grids during natural disasters, especially from the increasingly stronger storms like hurricane Maria that devastated Puerto Rico. The second is the many technological advances in solar power generation and energy storage, which also lead to ongoing cost reductions across the solar value chain. The prospect of using solar power on a temporary basis, including for disaster response and recovery, is not new, of course. Indeed, Hurricane Hugo in 1988 is believed to be the first time that solar power was used for relief in the aftermath of a natural disaster. Despite the fact that solar PV and related technologies have advanced considerably during the nearly three decades since then, diesel gensets continue to dominate disaster relief efforts. So is it finally time for the solar energy industry to get serious about this growing need? The Case for Solar Time, and...
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Things You Need to Know for Protecting Your Home This Christmas

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Christmas is an enjoyable time of the year for many families, it gives them a chance to come together for the first time in 12 months, and leave worries, stress and work at the doorstep. It’s a chance to drink, eat, be merry and let your hair down. However, for thieves it’s the opportune moment to ruin your Christmas , because as you start to unwind and let your hair down, thieves will use this to their advantage and plan their methodical attack upon your family home. We aren’t here to scare you though, we are here to help and that is exactly what we intend to do. Therefore, without further scaremongering here are some excellent tips that we have put together in order for you to make it more difficult for burglars to spoil your Christmas festivities . Keep Your Presents Hidden Away We know that having gifts under the tree does add to the Christmas feel but believe us it also adds to the reasons a thief would want to break into your house. Rather than leaving them in clear s...
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Basic Rules of Ethical Optimization

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Basic Rules of Ethical Optimization Any campaign that doesn't abide by the following rules is coping in unethical optimization methods and must be avoided. 1.) What the user sees and what the search engine sees should be exactly the same. Do not hide anything. 2.) Your key words (and the resulting optimization) should exactly reflect the content of this page.Keywords should always reflect exactly what your site is all about. 3.) Don't build pages out exclusively for search engines. The website should always cater to both audiences (users and search engines). Catering to only users is the reason optimization is necessary. Providing only to search engines is optimization gone too far into a black hat. 4.) Do not take part in manipulative inbound linking schemes like link farms, bulk links, triangle linking, or some other unethical exploitation of your Google PageRank or link authority. Inbound links should be relevant to the content of your site and you need to always ...
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