The prebound effect
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09613218.2012.690952
Editorial Comment: Urban Solar Energy Association found similar results with the households in which USEA had done solar barnraisings back in the late 1970s.
Net positive Swiss house producing 687% of the energy it consumes
https://www.solaragentur.ch/de/solarpreis/schweizer-solarpreis/2017/687-peb-efh-keller-3115-gerzenseebe
Net positive house producing 817% of the energy it consumes
https://www.solaragentur.ch/de/solarpreis/schweizer-solarpreis/2020/817-peb-efh-brunner-bapst-waltensburggr
hat tip to @N_Schmid for these net positive houses
30 year and older solar panels still going strong
https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/renewable-energy-ecology/old-solar-panels-still-work/
China’s Green Leap Outward: The rapid scale-up of overseas Chinese clean-tech manufacturing investments
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64ca7e081e376c26a5319f0b/t/68c09417468c2975452a39d1/1757451287251/PB+-11+China+Low+Carbon+FDI-vf.pdf
Fuel cells for apartments
https://ecohomegenius.com/compact-fuel-cells-for-apartments/
hat tip to Brenda Loew
Netherlands’ net zero energy stadium using recycled electric car batteries
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2018/07/netherlands-football-johan-cruijff-stadium-electric-car-batteries/
hat tip to Mike Hudema
Koch Industries is installing solar at their refineries in Minnesota and Texas
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1555611728537618
https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1977812144348402099/photo/1
Electric school buses to grid
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/10/17/electric-school-buses-are-just-better-than-diesel-buses-thats-all/
https://highlandfleets.com/projects/
Editorial Comment: A near(er)-net zero transportation system is conceivable using this and the following examples
Barcelona’s regenerative energy transit system
https://english.news.cn/20240816/47b3faa6206247b8b9c79772563a213d/c.html
https://grist.org/transportation/barcelona-is-turning-subway-trains-into-power-stations/
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/09/30/barcelona-is-using-regenerative-braking-to-power-subways-ev-chargers/
Regenerative trains and trucks
https://solarray.blogspot.com/2022/07/playing-with-electric-trains-as-climate.html
Cows may safely graze under solar?
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02112025/cattle-solar-grazing/
or https://archive.ph/6GBJ7
American Solar Grazing Association
https://solargrazing.org/
USAmerican Agrivoltaic Census Report
https://openei.org/wiki/InSPIRE/Agrivoltaics_Map
Solar Grazing Census Report
https://solargrazing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ASGA-CensusReport2024.pdf
