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...Andrew Hoffman and Jerry Davis are professors at University of Michigan Ross School of Business...
...Sustainability, and safety, were paramount: solar panels, already long in use, power the off-grid site and charge ancillary batteries, with a diesel generator operating for a maximum of eight hours at night...
...At a personal level, we are now self-sufficient not only for water, light and heat (natural springs, solar power and firewood from our managed woodlands see to that), but we also have few outgoings beside...
...Earlier this year, Deep Branch launched a pilot in partnership with Drax, the biggest power station in the UK....
...Yet solar power has been shut out from the energy sector’s Contracts for Difference for years and onshore wind been starved of even the slightest breeze of official support....
...If Humble and Czerski treated the Sun with gratitude and awe, then the latest episode of Horizon, Solar Storms: The Threat to Planet Earth (BBC2, Tuesday) portrayed it as sinister and destructive....
...“I saw the horizon curving a mile and a half away. With no atmosphere, there was no haze on the moon. It was crystal clear.”...
...The film, which won last year’s Cannes Golden Palm, has the texture of a waking nightmare and the power of a punch to the stomach....
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