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U.S. Solar Market to Double in the Next Year
In a few years, the United States is likely to be ...Posted by Jon Mitchell -
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Loan to Kick-start U.S. Solar Thermal Industry
A massive $1.37 billion loan guarantee that the ...Posted by Jon Mitchell -
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Solar Industry Facing “Gross Oversupply”
(Blog Post) What happens to an industry when the price of a ...Posted by Jon Mitchell -
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Building a better suntrap: A novel approach to solar ...
Peter Bermel of MIT and his colleagues think they ...Posted by Manfred Ostrowski -
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Bill Clinton: Solar and wind energy are "both cheaper ...
During a Nov. 8, 2011, appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, former ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
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Solar power
Solar power is the generation of electricity from sunlight. This can be direct as with photovoltaics (PV), or indirect as with ...Posted by Jon Mitchell
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Building a better suntrap: A novel approach to solar power may help to improve its efficiency
Peter Bermel of MIT and his colleagues think they have found a way round the usual solar power difficulties. As ...Posted by Manfred Ostrowski -
Virus-templated self-assembled single-walled carbon nanotubes for highly efficient electron collection in photovoltaic devices
we report the synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotube–TiO2 nanocrystal core–shell nanocomposites using a ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Nissan works on recharging Leaf with solar power
... electricity is generated through 488 solar cells installed on the roof of the Nissan headquarters building ...Posted by Lynn Caporale
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Bill Clinton: Solar and wind energy are "both cheaper than nuclear right now."
During a Nov. 8, 2011, appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, former President Bill Clinton touted the ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
How a 13-Year-Old Revolutionized Solar Cell Efficiency
“Collecting sunlight is key to the survival of a tree. Leaves are the solar panels of trees, collecting sunlight ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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Here Comes The Sun
We are, or at least we should be, on the cusp of an energy transformation, driven by the rapidly falling cost of ...Posted by Manfred Ostrowski -
Government Fees Could Be Hindering the Rollout of American Solar Power
Given the way the government is beating up on a certain foreign oil company this morning, it's easy to think ...Posted by William Hughes-Games -
Europe Energized
The average European today emits half the carbon of an average American and uses far less electricity. It takes 40 ...Posted by Beth Wellington
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Hermann Scheer (1944-2010): German Lawmaker, Leading Advocate for Social Energy and "Hero for the Green Century" in One of His Final Interviews
(Multimedia) Hermann Scheer, one of the world's leading advocates for solar power, has died at the age of sixty-six. The German ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Henry Red Cloud of Oglala Lakota Tribe on Native American Anti-Nuclear Activism, Uranium Mining, and the Recession's Toll on Reservations
(Multimedia) The Nuclear-Free Future Awards are being awarded tonight at New York's historic Cooper Union. The prize has been ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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Excellent framing of the economics and politics. More specific info on the socialized costs of fossil fuels, and the specific costs of solar would add to the credibility.
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