Solar energy

In 2006 for the first time over the half of world's polysilicon supply was used for production of renewable electricity solar power panels. Currently, there are only twelve production plants for solar grade polysilicon in the world. ...

 CO He added that the economic incentive for installing the solar panels is not a strong one. Rather, the library is investing in solar power because it's the right thing to do. “Being the library and an educational institution we're working toward ...

Emcore has won a contract worth approximately $5 million to manufacture, test, and deliver high-efficiency solar PV panels for NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement spacecraft. The contract will be managed by MEI Technologies, which is the prime ...

 MA Powercom has made computer components for years, but a few years ago started making inverters, which convert the direct current from a solar energy system into the alternating current for feeding the grid, and it lined up a solar power partner. ...

But the most common solar technology, photovoltaics (PV), costs a pretty penny. However, a significant new study found solar PV offers great potential to the country, but only if the government establishes the right policies. Solar energy's popularity ...

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Both chargers have a six-hour charge time with solar energy and a three-hour charge time with AC adapters. So why should we care about Energizer's new chargers? Mainly because Energizer products are widely distributed and reputable enough that the ...

By Mike Millikin British Gas and Romag Holdings Plc, the specialist manufacturer of glass and plastic composites for renewable energy applications, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate in the testing, marketing, distribution and installation of British Gas branded solar powe...

 TX But the training is hard to find right now, according to Renewable Energy Coordinator at Texas State Technical College, Sidney Bolfing. That's because within the last five years, using solar energy has become pretty popular and is fairly new to the ...

That may be good news for wind and solar power enthusiasts, who have long been faced with the dilemma of how to store energy when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining. This discovery opens the door for generating methane from those ...

 FL Electricity from wind already costs about 50 percent more than coal. Offshore wind turbines would be even more costly due to higher technology and maintenance costs. Solar power is even worse. Solar thermal electricity costs double natural ...

 CA The must cheaper and easier way to get solar power is to teach yourself how to install them. If you are the type of guy that is motivated and loves the do it yourself mentality, making some solar panels can be an easy task. ... Be Independent and Make Your Own Solar Panels Best Syndication

By WorldChanging Team Energy [R]evolution concluded that it is possible for 69 percent of India's electricity and 70 percent of India's heating and cooling needs to come from renewable sources by 2050 - but capturing this opportunity "would require at an additional investment of $154 billion," Teske said.

By Jeremy Faludi You might balk at the thought of cadmium in PV panels--after all, isn't it a toxic heavy metal that's outlawed in RoHS? Well, yes. But the especially interesting thing this ISIS article says is that using cadmium solar cells actually reduces cadmium emissions to the environment. Cadmium i...

By Staff Reporter South Korean scientists have developed a new plastic-based power cell that can pace up viable use of solar energy. The team led by Lee Kwang-hee at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), said that the solar cells are ...

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By Mike Millikin In the paper, the scientists describe an optical effect that occurs when nanoparticles are linked as dimer clusters. When an electromagnetic field interacts with the metallic particles, it induces a collective oscillation of the material’s conductive electrons. This phenomenon, kn...

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By Mike Millikin Based on 15% efficiency, each Solar Road Panel can produce an average of 7.6 kWh per day. A hypothetical 4-lane, one-mile stretch of road would require 1,760 Solar Road Panels, capable of producing 13,376 kWh of electricity per day, or some 4,882,240 kWh per year—enough to take 500 homes co...

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By Evan Ackerman By Evan Ackerman At Mobile World Congress 2009 this week, LG was displaying a new cell phone with a solar panel battery back that won’t need to be plugged in until the sun goes dead in 6-odd billion years. Ten minutes of sun gets you three minutes of talk time, which is not half bad… The [...]

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By Ben Mack Hollywood is probably the last place that you expect to go green. It talks a good game, but there is something about Botox, breast implants and reality TV that doesn’t say “eco-friendly.” Cruise Car claims its rides are good for 40 to 60 miles per charge and says the photovoltaic panel, which...

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By Eliot Phillips In conclusion, [script] stated that he was happy with his experience, but that it was still impractical to use the portable panel in anything other than direct sunlight.        The 25th Chaos Communication Congress is underway in Berlin. One of the first talks we dropped in on was [script]...

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There is an entire web of benefits from the change from manufacturing car windows to solar panels, and it starts with local control of a community’s future. Now, to expand on Toledo’s investment in solar panels, the talk needs to focus on helping business and homeowners install solar pane...

By David Adam Asked to rate the likely success of low-carbon technologies in the mid-term, they showed less confidence than a similar survey 12 months ago. Support for offshore wind farms, the bedrock for ambitious UK renewable energy plans, was down to 61%, from 65% last year. Solar electricity gener...

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By Charles While in LA for PDC2008, we were lucky enough to get the chance to head down to Pasadena for a tour and interview at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Nic Fillingham and I grabbed a cab and met up with the great Marc Mercuri (of RoboChamps fame), DPE's VP Walid Abu-Hadba and others to get a look at...

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Image source: Cake Cake (player of songs such as The Distance, Never There and the remake of I Will Survive) is showing their support for solar by installing a photovoltaic (PV) system on the roof of their recording studio in Sacramento, CA. Their sixth album is being recorded with 100% sol...

By Mike Millikin An untreated silicon solar cell only absorbs 67.4% of sunlight shone upon it. From an economic and efficiency perspective, this unharvested light is wasted potential and a major barrier hampering the proliferation and widespread adoption of solar power.

Spokesman Jonathan Bass said the company's expansion will be decided by three factors: a state's average electricity rates, available tax rebates for renewable energy, and sun exposure. But, he said, electricity rates are the key. "Typically, we like to be able to show a net savings righ...

By Andrew Donoghue Asked whether the Scripps research may lead to curbs on how NF3 is used in the solar industry, Andrew Cooper, head of onsite renewables for the Renewable Energy Association, said that all industries produced some greenhouse gases and the onus should be on how the amount of CO2 and other ha...

By Daniel Kessler The University of California at Berkeley is out with a new study that shows that since the 70s renewable energy initiatives have created 1.5 million... The University of California at Berkeley is out with a new study that shows that since the 70s renewable energy initiatives have created 1.5 m...

By the ecopreneur(noreply@blogger.com) Energy storage has been considered the “Holy Grail” of renewable energy development as it addresses the issue of intermittency of such sources. It just so happens that the quest to find on-grid energy storage solutions dovetails really well with the quest to build green cars, specifica...

By TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner Do you wear sunscreen on the golf course? You better, says Dr. Beth Lang, senior director of the Coppertone Solar Research Center. “I think people are aware of the risk, but I think golfers are particularly at risk because of the amount of time you’re in direct sunlight,” Lange says. “That fou...

By Mike Millikin Combined with the demonstrated efficiency performance of the very high efficiency solar cells’ spectral splitting optics, which is more than 93%, these recent results put the pieces in place for a solar cell module with a net efficiency 30% greater than any previous module efficiency...

By Mike Millikin Silicon is the dominant semiconductor material used in present day solar cells, representing more than 93% of the photovoltaic cell market. The new result opens the door to the potential application of MEG for greatly enhancing the conversion efficiency of solar cells based on silicon...

By gette Three key continua exist in analyzing methods of creating power from the sun: passive-active, thermal-photovoltaic, and concentrating-nonconcentrating. Passive solar energy is usually created usually through building design, such as in the design of a greenhouse. Active solar en...

By reZz ACTIVISTS RALLIED OUTSIDE THE SAN FRANCISCO CITY HALL TODAY FOR THE COMMUNITY CHOICE AGGREGATION, A PLAN THAT WOULD ALLOW LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO BUY THEIR OWN ENERGY. THE "GREEN GUERILLAS AGAINST GREENWASH" AND A WOMAN WHO BAKED BROWNIES IN A SOLAR OVEN CAME OUT TO A MEETING OF THE SAN FRANC...

By Phil Plait The idea is that evidence shows that Mars, Jupiter, Neptune's moon Triton, and even tiny, distant Pluto are warming up. The only thing these objects have in common is the Sun-- so therefore the Sun must be the culprit, and we -- the polluting, self-absorbed humans -- are off the hook.

By info@universetoday.com (Fraser Cain) Imagine a solar powered sail that could propel a space craft through the vacuum of space like a wind that drives a sail here on Earth. The energy of photons steaming from the Sun alone would provide the thrust. NASA and other space agencies are taking the idea seriously and are working on vario...