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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
$4 Million Goes to MIT from French Oil Company for Solar Energy Battery Project Total, a French oil company, recently agreed to give the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) $4 million for a 5-year research project to develop stationary batteries that can more efficiently store solar energy. More effecient energy storage has been a difficult issue for [...]
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Green Options (Free subscription) | yesterday
Veteran solar installer Parkson Corporation is lending its expertise to a new wastewater treatment plant upgrade for the town of Berlin near the Maryland coast. When it’s finished, the new plant will almost eliminate the use of fossil fuels for drying and converting biosolids, also known as sludge , into a lightweight Class A soil amendment or sustainable fuel. The process is pushed along by...
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Alternative Energy HQ (Free subscription) | yesterday
The installation of our Solar City solar power system for our home has moved forward nicely. One of the things we had to have done was a bit of upgrading to the rafters in our attic so that our roof can be structurally sound and support the panels effectively.
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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The Skinny on DIY Solar The U.S. is a proverbial mecca for do-it-yourselfers. From our ancestral days of pioneers and homesteaders, we’ve trusted nothing more than our own hands to get a job done right. America is a land of invention and innovation (even if the manufacturing has moved elsewhere). So, when the solar power took [...]
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Dr Laurie's Geog Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Relatively simple and affordable technology often provides the most telling change in terms of developing rural areas in the Less Economically Developed World. This example explains how simple solar technology is providing electric lighting to a small settlement in India and explains the positive impact it is having on people’s lives: http://www.dfid.gov.uk/solarengineers [...]
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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Renewables & efficiency - Nov 6 -A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables-Farms going green to save and survive-Solar power from Sahara a step closer-Nearly 200 Organizations and Companies Urge Senate to Adopt Key Energy-Efficiency Provision in Climate Bill-Report Argues for a Decentralized System of Renewable Power Generation read more Visit the original post [...]
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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Home Solar Payback: How Long Does it Take? Home solar payback is the million dollar question for solar energy systems. Unfortunately for solar installers, it’s not always an easy question to answer, as several variables affect the solution. It can be said that in general, it takes 10-20 years for an average-sized system to pay for [...]
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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Evergreen Solar’s Sequential Shipments Increase 35% to 31 MW for the Third Quarter MARLBORO, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Evergreen Solar, Inc. (NasdaqGM: ESLR), a manufacturer of String Ribbon™ solar power products with its proprietary, low-cost silicon wafer technology, today announced financial results for the third [...]
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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Solar Power International Breaks Attendance Records and Reports Strong Interest in Solar Across Economic Sectors ANAHEIM, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Solar Power International 2009, the largest business-to-business solar energy conference and expo in North America, broke attendance records [...]
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Newswise (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
New scientific discoveries are moving society toward the era of "personalized solar energy," in which the focus of electricity production shifts from huge central generating stations to individuals in their own homes and communities. That's the topic of a report by an international expert on solar energy scheduled for the November 2 issue of ACS' Inorganic Chemistry...
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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Solar Power International Breaks Records, New LLC To Manage Event Solar Power International 2009, North America’s largest business-to-business solar energy event broke attendance records for the sixth year in a row last week. This year’s vent drew more than 24,000 industry professionals, an increase from 17,500 in the previous year. Attendees came from 99 different countries [...]
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Green Wombat (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
photo: Ausra Silicon Valley solar company Ausra has sold its sole remaining solar power plant project in the United States, all but completing its exit from solar farming. As I write Thursday in The New York Times: Ausra is continuing its exit from the business of building solar power plants, announcing on Wednesday that it has sold [...]
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Fast Company (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
As any renewable energy buff (or casual bystander) knows, solar panels are rendered useless when the sun sets. The Rice Solar Energy Project doesn't change that, but it gets pretty close--the proposed project in California's Sonoran Desert stores up to 7 hours worth of solar power in molten salt. Heat from the salt can be released whenever power is needed, no matter if that's in the middle of the...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Californian company, SolarReserve, is developing a solar power system that can store seven hours' worth of solar energy by focusing mirrors onto millions of gallons of molten salt, allowing the plant to provide electricity 24 hours a day.
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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
BioSolar Begins Limited Supply Production of Commercial Grade BioBacksheet™-C SANTA CLARITA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BioSolar (OTCBB: BSRC), developer of a breakthrough technology to produce bio-based materials from renewable plant sources that reduce the cost of photovoltaic (PV) [...]
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krishpatel1212@gmail | 10/24/2009
Golf Cart Tax Credit Stokes Controversy | Golf Cart Tax Credit Info Converting your golf cart to solar power is a great alternative to regular electric power, it saves the environment as well as providing benefits to the vehicle. It can also save you money on electricity and frequent battery replacements. So, if you are considering a solar system for these reasons then the tax credit will be a great
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Solar Golf Cart Tax Credits
Check out the $5,335 Federal tax credit for a 4 passenger new 5.5 hp solar golf cart at www.frugaldougalsgolf.com/solargolfcart. Further, you can receive...
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aarkstore | 10/02/2009
Summary Solarfun Power Holdings Co., Ltd (Solarfun) is a significant manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules. It also provides PV cell processing services to convert silicon wafers into PV cells and supplies solar system integration services in China. The company produces both monocrystalline and multicrystalline silicon cells and modules, and manufactures 100% of its modules with in-house...
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aarkstore | 09/07/2009
The ‘Green Energy in India’ PowerPoint presentation covers the various type of Renewable Energy inIndia - Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Hydro electric and bio mass energy. The areas covered in the PPT are sources of Renewable energy in India, potential of renewable energy sources, consumption trends, overview of the Indian power sector, carbon emissions, nuclear energy, hybrid systems, and much more....
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