SOLAR PLANE READY FOR FIRST INTERNATIONAL AIRFLIGHT Solar Impulse is on standby for its first international flight this week. Brussels has been chosen as the destination for the first venture outside Swiss borders, which follows the solar powered aircraft’s maiden flight and first overnight flight last year and will mark another important step towards the [...]
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Posted on August 13th, 2011 by Henry
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MOJOR DEFECTS IN SOLAR PANELS WARRANT ALL TO BE CHECKED NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell has told the state’s 120,000 solar households to have their panels checked, after an audit in northwestern Sydney found 18.5 per cent had major defects. Mr O’Farrell today released the preliminary results of an audit of 658 panel systems in Sydney’s [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2011 by Henry
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Renault to install 450,000m2 of solar panels By Darren Quick 20:54 May 31, 2011 Outdoing the likes of Ferrari and Audi, which have already installed solar panels onto the roofs of their manufacturing plants, Renault has partnered with Gestamp Solar to launch what it says is the largest solar energy project in the automotive [...]
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Posted on June 12th, 2011 by Henry
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SolarWorld supplies 33 MW solar plant in Ontario 26 May 2011 SolarWorld is supplying solar photovoltaic (PV) panels to a 33 MW installation at a 300 acres site in southeast Ontario, Canada. By Renewable Energy Focus staff The solar panels will be shipped by rail from SolarWorld’s facility in Hillsboro, OR. The Stardale PV Solar [...]
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Posted on June 1st, 2011 by Henry
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Modified virus used to significantly boost solar cell efficiency By Ben Coxworth 16:49 April 27, 2011 Last year, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced that they had successfully used carbon nanotubes for “funneling” and concentrating electrons in photovoltaic cells – this meant that smaller solar cells created using the nanotubes could produce [...]
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Posted on April 28th, 2011 by Henry
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HOME MADE SOLAR SYSTEM HOW TO VIDEOS HERE TO WATCH 3:02Add toAdded to queue DIY Solar Panel System Costby drumat5280Featured Video306,528 views 2:25Add toAdded to queue Make a durable solar panel case from epoxyby goldeneffect12,821 views 4:46Add toAdded to queue Homemade sun trackerby gt2352gt131,901 views 1:22Add toAdded to queue how to make solar cellsby earthgreenlover24,806 [...]
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Posted on April 19th, 2011 by Henry
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Google has chipped in a US$168 million investment in what will be the world’s largest solar power tower plant. To be located on 3,600 acres of land in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) will boast 173,000 heliostats that will concentrate the sun’s rays onto a solar tower [...]
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Posted on April 14th, 2011 by Henry
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Creditors in the dark as DCM Green’s light dims BY GRAHAM DOWNIE 27 Mar, 2011 01:00 AM ONE OF Australia’s largest solar panel installers has gone into administration leaving debts understood to be worth millions of dollars and unfulfilled contracts with customers in Canberra, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. DCM Green went into voluntary administration [...]
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Posted on March 27th, 2011 by Henry
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Moth eye-inspired material now boosts efficiency of solar cells By Ben Coxworth 21:03 January 23, 2011 In order for a solar cell to be as efficient as possible, the last thing it should be is reflective – after all, light should be getting absorbed by it, not being bounced off. With that in mind, a few [...]
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Posted on January 25th, 2011 by Henry
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Calif. Ikea store to go to solar power COSTA MESA, Calif. (UPI) — Home furnishings giant Ikea says it will light one of its Southern California stores using solar panels if the city of Costa Mesa, Calif., approves. Khanh Nguyen, a Costa Mesa building official , said the Swedish chain applied last week for a [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2011 by Henry
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