Tag: Solar Power - Page 5
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World's Largest Community-Owned Solar Project Launches in England
Imagine 5MW of community-owned solar generating clean, renewable energy. Now imagine it in rainy old England...
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World's First All-Carbon Solar Cell Built at Stanford
Researchers may have found an inexpensive solar cell materials breakthrough with their development of the first all-carbon solar cell.
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A Tent City in Texas Gets the Power of Solar Light
Solar lighting has long been heralded as a game changer for development projects abroad. Now one charity is deploying it in the tent cities of the USA.
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Nice Shades: SERA Architects And Cutler Anderson Update An Old Office Building In Portland
A shading system keeps it cool, helped by a giant solar powered hat
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Do Well in School, Get a Solar Panel, Pakistani Students Told
$46 million is going to give students who do well their own solar power.
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Cute Solar Charging Canopies Tilt Toward Sun
Sweden might not seem the place for solar innovation, but this sweet two-car charging station from Solelia looks good in parking lots and can tilt to find Scandinavian sunshine!
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How to Make Fire With Water
Some say it can't be done, but survival specialist Paul Osborn shows us that you can create a flame using water.
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Energy News: US Wind Power Passes 50 GW, China's Solar Power Industry on Life Support, More
Plus: India gets it's first net metering system; pro-fracking groups astroturf rally in Albany, New York
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Stanford Ovshinsky, 1922- 2012
The controversial inventor came up with the nickel metal hydride batteries that run the Prius and the thin-film photovoltaic panel.
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Billionaire Plans to Turn Hawaiian Island Into a Solar-Powered "Eco Lab"
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison bought nearly the entire island of Lanai for $500 million. Now, he says he's going to turn it into a sustainable paradise filled with electric cars, organic farms, and solar power.
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How Solar Light Saves Lives
Brave Mhonie, the Malawian field coordinator for Solar Aid, knows first hand the dangers of inadequate and unsafe lighting. Here he explains why solar is a life saver.
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Skystream Hybrid 6 Doubles Down on Renewable Energy, Integrates Solar Panels with Wind Turbine
To get the most out of this residential renewable energy system, the Skystream Hybrid 6 adds six sun-tracking solar panels to its Skystream 3.7 wind turbine configuration.
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Fully Charged Visits The Clean Energy City of the Future
Masdar has been making waves for quite some time now. But what does it look like now this $2bn "clean energy city" is actually taking shape?
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Two-Thirds of All Solar Panels Installed Last Year Were in Europe
China may be making half of all the solar panels in the world, but Europe is installing them, with an additional 18.5 GW installed across the continent last year.
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BBC's Top Gear Test Track Has Gone Solar
The UK-based car show Top Gear is not known for its environmental leanings. Yet its test track and studio will now be 100% powered by the sun.
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Solar Decathlon Europe Shows Solar Skills Of Design and Engineering Students From Around The World
Competitors Bring Their Stunning Solar Houses to Madrid: Part 1
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5MW Solar Waste Treatment Plant Avoids Feeding the Grid
A new large-scale solar plant in the UK is deliberately designed to prioritize energy use by the company that commissioned it, feeding only minimal energy into the grid.
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DoE Offers $10M Prize for Cheaper Roof Solar Installation Breakthrough
To spur innovation and help make solar power even more competitive with dirty sources, the U.S. Department of Energy has created the SunShot Prize.
