Tag: Solar Energy
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Researchers nuke up new solar cell material in microwave that used to make lunch
Scientists up-cycle the microwave that used to make lunch to develop a cheap method using more abundant and less toxic materials to make nanocrystal semiconductors.
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Student designed Solar Garage produces energy, grows food too
This smart redesign of the common garage uses solar power to optimize the charging of electric vehicles and the germination of food crops.
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South-Korea's largest rooftop solar installation (10 MW) to be built on a Hyundai factory
Hyundai has announced that it will build what will be South-Korea's largest solar rooftop solar installation on its Asan factory, near the West coast of the country.
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Solar Impulse: Flying from San Francisco to New York City in a solar plane
The ultimate goal of the Solar Impulse sun-powered plane is to fly around the globe powered by only the sun's rays. But before you can run, you have to crawl and then walk...
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New discovery allows low-grade silicon to be turned into high-efficiency solar panels
Some technical breakthroughs are great because they push back the limits of what we can do, bringing us to new summits, while other are great because they allow us to do more with what we already have.
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Investments in clean energy could reach $630 billion by 2030 (but probably more)
“Three years ago, we thought wind and solar would be cheap as chips, and they’ve even gone below that.”
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Extremely important graph: Cost of solar headed for parity with coal and gas (and will later beat them)
We're headed for historic milestones in solar power production. These will change the face of human civilization.
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SoloPower plant closing, mere months after opening
Mere months after the maker of cutting-edge solar panels opened a manufacturing plant in Portland, OR, backed at all levels of government, it is suspending operations.
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Build a solar cooker for just $5
Learn how to turn posterboard, aluminum foil, a shoelace, and a few binder clips into a solar cooker capable of reaching 375° F
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The top ten posts of the week on TreeHugger
It's all about tech this week, from solar collectors to lithium
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IBM solar collector magnifies sun by 2,000x (without cooking itself), costs 3x less than similar systems
Concentrating the sun's ray onto solar photovoltaic (PV) modules requires walking the fine line between optimizing power output and not literally melting your very expensive super-high-efficiency solar cells.
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America now has more solar energy workers than coal miners
The Solar Foundation, which has been releasing reports for a few years on the state of the solar industry in the U.S., has just launched a very cool interactive map that breaks the stats down state by state.
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Solar power accounted for 100% of new energy on U.S. grid in March 2013
According to the latest data from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), March 2013 was a very special month for the U.S. power grid. For the first time ever, all of the new capacity added came from solar power.
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Suntech stock up almost 50% on Warren Buffett buyout rumors
If there's one way to describe Buffett, it's "bargain hunter". When people are running away from something, Buffett usually goes in the opposite direction and takes a look to see if there isn't a quality undervalued asset that he could buy.
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All solar efficiency breakthroughs since 1975 on a single chart
The National Center for Photovoltaics (NCPV), which is part of the U.S. National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), maintains a chart that shows efficiency records for all kinds of research solar technologies, from more vanilla to very exotic flavors.
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Solar power has reached grid parity in India and Italy
A recent Deutsche Bank report concludes that solar power has now reached grid parity in Italy and India, and that by next year even more countries will reach parity.
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Online solar marketplace is like an eBay for solar
A new online market platform is connecting existing solar projects and people that have solar panels (or space to install them) with investors who want to fund them.
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300,000 mirrors: World's largest thermal solar plant (377MW) under construction in the Mojave
The scale of this concentrating solar power plant is awe-inspiring. Hundreds of thousands of mirrors are used to focus solar energy unto giant towers, generating clean electricity via steam turbines.
