Maya Bohler, who lives in Roanoke, has been making functional pottery inspired by nature and the world's great civilizations since 1979. That means she makes bowls, plates, teapots and other things you can use in the kitchen and around the house with a design that goes beyond the usual. And solar …
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Plan Now to Go Solar in January or February and Save $500
In the late summer heat, snowy days may seem far off. But if you plan ahead for winter now, you can save $500 on solar. We don't put a lot of promotional stuff on this blog, because we want to keep it interesting for our readers. So most of our articles are news about solar in Virginia along with …
Is Virginia Sunny Enough to Make Solar Power Worthwhile?
Since solar panels make energy using light from the sun, then it's natural that they don't work at night. They also don't work as well on a cloudy day as on a sunny day. But is it true that solar panels only really work well enough to make them worthwhile if they're located in a really sunny area …
Four of Your Virginia Neighbors Who Have Gone Solar
They're doing some great research at Virginia Tech on how to spread solar more quickly around rural areas. Recently, Madhav Marathe, a computer scientist who has been studying solar power as prices have dropped over the last 20 years, told WVTF radio that in other states, one of the things that …
Clean Energy Gets Young People Into Science
For a century or more, the United States has led the world in producing creative inventors and entrepreneurs, from Thomas Edison to Henry Ford to Bill Gates. Innovators like those have helped make new technology, from cars to solar panels, affordable to millions of Americans. But are we giving …
