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The future seems to be bright and eco-friendly, according to experts from the International Energy Agency who think that up to one third of the global energy demand will be satisfied by clean green solar power by 2060.
This strategy would come as an effective response both to climate change phenomenon and fossil fu... |
5 December 2011
02:57 GMT |
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Representatives from environmental groups and major players operating in the solar industry join forces to empower The New York Solar Jobs Coalition, an organization aiming to encourage New York to pass a solar bill by 2012.
In their opinion, the development of solar industry implies the creation of thousands of gr... |
30 November 2011
04:31 GMT |
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We all know the benefits of solar photovoltaic panels installed on our rooftops. They keep our house warm, they charge our electric vehicles and ultimately, they cook our food. At least this is what you'll experience if you choose to eat in a very popular, eco-friendly pop-up restaurant opened in Helsinki, Finla... |
26 November 2011
04:06 GMT |
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Wind and solar power are expected to green up Morocco's energy grid, as the African Development Bank (AfDB) decides to approve two historic loans summing $365 million. The significant amount will help Eskom develop Ouarzazate, its first large-scale project, exploiting the advantages of 500 MW clean solar thermal... |
25 November 2011
05:40 GMT |
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A smart mixture of passive and active solar energy, correlated with the usage of wood stoves and geothermal power, appears to be the winning combination for those who want to make their homes energy-efficient. As winter approaches, household owners might consider improving their heating systems, while going green an... |
17 November 2011
05:25 GMT |
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Despite the government's lack of commitments in developing new methods of implementing renewable power and all the mystery which surrounds the feed-in tariffs on the market of solar panel, California has managed to overcome all the bumps in the road and has announced that its overall solar installations have rea... |
12 November 2011
05:14 GMT |
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At times when governments don't seem eager to invest in renewables, scientists try to improve the alternative sources of energy on their own. Solar power, considered to be one of the safest, most efficient means of producing green energy still requires a lot of improvements.
According to experts in this field ... |
11 November 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Nowadays, when the demand for alternative sources of energy goes off the roof, the US has to struggle to compete with China's increased efforts of developing and implementing solar power on a national scale.
A new study provided by Solarbuzz, China Deal Tracker highlights that this year, the competition will ge... |
8 November 2011
09:56 GMT |
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IBM, finally built on all those promises of the IT industry that there would soon be solar-powered data centers, by inventing the first array meant to provide that energy.
It is fortunate for the IT industry that solar cells and all the technology related to harnessing solar power has evolved.
It was all that prog... |
4 November 2011
20:01 GMT |
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Officially unveiled by Steve Jobs during the WWDC 2011 keynote address, Apple’s enormous data center located in Maiden, North Carolina, is getting its own power plant. And it’s being fueled by the huge ball of burning hydrogen lighting up every day of our lives - the sun.The business section of Charlotteo... |
26 October 2011
07:14 GMT |
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The producers who manufacture photovoltaic solar panels on US territory have real reasons to manifest their excitement as researchers found that the American solar market has experienced a 69% growth so far, in 2011. Until the end of this year, it seems that numbers should increase, adding to those 1,750 megawatts in... |
14 October 2011
07:27 GMT |
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Inovateus Solar LLC, one of the most important enterprises which operates on the market of solar power, has announced its partnership with GE Energy Industrial Solutions. The new deal implies that the company will become the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for solar carpot charging stations. Both enterprises ho... |
14 October 2011
03:56 GMT |
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Having just received the rights to develop a solar photovoltaic (PV) park in Kazanlak, Bulgaria, Pheonix Solar AG already thinks of selling the project. The company says negotiations are already in progress.Phoenix, a German system integrator based near Munich, originally got approvals for a 20 megawatts array in 200... |
6 October 2011
05:55 GMT |
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The latest sustainable project coming from IKEA is a solar photovoltaic energy system installed at its East Bay store in Emeryville, California, representing the 11th completed solar energy project for the company in the United States.The system spreads over an area of 68,000 sqm, and generates 538 kW from its approx... |
21 September 2011
12:06 GMT |
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French designer Vivien Muller has recently made his solar bonsai available for pre-order, hoping consumer interest will be high enough to launch the production of this item.Not only that it looks good, but it also has a clean, green functionality. Dubbed Electree, the bonsai uses 27 solar panels to harness energy and... |
21 September 2011
10:30 GMT |
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That an echo of nature can be seen everywhere may be more than a metaphor in the case of the Electree, the latest concept that French designer Vivien Muller came up with.
One doesn't just see mother nature in every brick on the wall or the concrete that makes up most of the cities around the world.
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19 September 2011
09:50 GMT |
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The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards will mark solar energy’s first starring role in U.S. entertainment culture, thanks to a canopy of 225 high-performance solar panels from SolarWorld that will be used to power the red carpet.Some of the hottest names in American television will step onto the red carpet located outs... |
16 September 2011
03:02 GMT |
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With the global photovoltaic market on a constant rise for five years now, the question on everybody’s lips is which country will come to claim the first spot in annual PV installations. A recent report from ABI Research comes to lift the mystery veil: it’s the US, which is expected to surpass Germany, It... |
13 September 2011
08:12 GMT |
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Solar-powered electronics really do seem to be steadily gaining popularity, as Samsung has added its name to the list of purveyors of full-fledged mobile computers which possess the ability to harness the might of the Sun.Not too long ago, the only application of solar cells was in those large power plants that were... |
22 August 2011
05:03 GMT |
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Solar and wind power may not be easy to harness for day to day activities and consumer electronics, but larger installations can definitely benefit from them, something that AMD seems quite certain of, considering its most recent announcement.The past years have seen quite a few advancements as far as harnessing sou... |
1 August 2011
08:33 GMT |
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A new report indicates Apple is on the verge of beginning tests with solar-powered solutions, if a number of Taiwan-based solar firms are to be believed.
Trade publication DigiTimes has learned from the Taiwanese firms that both Apple and Samsung have been “evaluating” the niche market for solar-powere... |
27 July 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Solar panels are definitely something that the IT market is trying to harness, seeking to make it so that the environment footprint on technology lessens as much as possible, but an alternative solar capturing solution might finally have become viable. Harnessing solar energy is something that scientists have been ... |
2 July 2011
05:40 GMT |
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Scientists at the Arizona State University (ASU) have recently taken an innovative step towards boosting the efficiency of photovoltaic solar cells. They say that adding graphite nanoparticles to the devices allows them to produce more electricity from the same amount of sunlight. This is only the latest in a string ... |
5 April 2011
10:21 GMT |
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Given the fact that so many people from all over the world are extremely interested by eco-friendly, solar-powered charging solutions, Eco-Voltaic has decided to roll out exactly such a product, namely the Spark Tablet Case, design to protect the iPad or various other Internet tablets, while in the same time rechargi... |
7 February 2011
04:54 GMT |
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Brigham Young University professor Richard Watt and his chemistry students, managed to turn gold into purple, on purpose, thus confirming a new way of harvesting solar power.They thought of a way they could imitate the reaction between chlorophyll and sunlight, in plants' photosynthesis, and they discovered a co... |
27 January 2011
10:36 GMT |
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Although solar power is most likely our best bet for the future of renewable energy, the truth of the matter is that, for the time being, the level of efficiency delivered by solar panels is still rather limited, compared to their full potential that, however, might actually be a lot closer, due to a breakthrough 3-d... |
20 January 2011
01:47 GMT |
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Despite of the fact that digital signage solutions have evolved quite a lot over the past couple of years, most of them providing very good quality images while only requiring a very small amount of energy in order to work, they're still dependent on electrical power coming from the mains, but this is a problem ... |
19 January 2011
14:01 GMT |
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A team of Swedish researchers came up with a way of connecting solar panels to the existing boiler within a house.This means that people who wanted to do so but had to spend a lot of money, will afford to turn to solar power to heat their water.Previous systems needed the house owners to change boilers, making the ne... |
13 January 2011
06:15 GMT |
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GoSolarUSA has announced that it signed a profit participation agreement with Xiamen Solar Electronics (XSE), to provide the latter with development funding for the Volt Solar Charger, an external battery pack that attaches to the iPhone and extends its battery life using a built-in solar panel.
For its part, XSE ... |
10 January 2011
09:43 GMT |
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Introduced all the way back in October, the solar-powered KDDI biblio Leaf SP02 is finally ready to make its market entrance, the device becoming available in Japan this weekend, December 25 to be more exact, for a yet-undisclosed amount.In order to announce the introduction of its latest eReader, KDDI held a press c... |
21 December 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Sanyo's been one of the best-known names in solar-panel research for quite some time now, but it seems that they've managed to take this technology to a whole new level, since they've just revealed the fact that they've started mass producing the world's most efficient solar panels.According ... |
6 December 2010
05:31 GMT |
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Without a doubt, solar power represents one of the best bets for our future as far as renewable, green types of energy are concerned, and for this reason, products that fully leverage its advantages, such as the Nokero N200 solar-charged light bulb, should become more and more popular in the coming years. The Nokero... |
22 November 2010
06:10 GMT |
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With the world's freshwater resources in deteriorating condition, more and more experts are beginning to turn their attention to the ocean as a source for drinking water. MIT experts are leading the way. In the wake of the Haiti earthquake that struck the impoverished Caribbean nation in January 2010, millions w... |
15 October 2010
05:55 GMT |
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The American space agency is currently looking into supporting engineering teams that can propose the design of a rover capable of driving during the night as well. NASA has been looking at ways of conducting space exploration during the night for many years, but thus far all of its rovers have only been capable of d... |
17 August 2010
10:30 GMT |
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A group of experts is currently working on investigating a method of using the vast amounts of carbon dioxide gas that are emitted around the world for creating alternative fuels. The research is centered on developing advanced, porous materials that could eventually be used to store the excess CO2 gas, which th... |
24 March 2010
09:50 GMT |
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In the past couple of years, the idea that we could soon become able to generate a lot of electrical current through solar power plants in space has made many tremble with anticipation. A number of partnerships between private companies and space agencies like NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)... |
2 December 2009
11:10 GMT |
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The United Kingdom (UK) plans to move forward with the construction of a new generation of power plants, which it wants to have ready as soon as possible. Detailed plans of the initiative will be announced any day now by Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change secretary. The MP will also speak about the most suita... |
9 November 2009
03:27 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung announced more than six months ago that it planned on releasing on the market a new device that would be powered by solar energy, namely the Samsung Blue Earth. Only a concept at that time, the device seems to be moving closer to becoming a reality, and has been recently spotte... |
13 August 2009
06:26 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung announced on Wednesday that its first solar-powered mobile phone would soon come to the market. And while the first Samsung handset to use solar power and become commercially available around the world was expected to be the Blue Earth (which was unveiled back in February), it ... |
11 June 2009
05:29 GMT |
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It seems that the first solar-powered mobile phone that also comes with waterproof capabilities is on its way to see the sunlight in Japan soon, on the airwaves of the wireless carrier KDDI. The manufacturer of the handset is stated to be Sharp, while the phone is expected to become available on the market starting J... |
22 April 2009
04:49 GMT |
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Producing solar panels based on silicon technologies is still a very expensive way of addressing issues such as climate change and global warming, and the manufacturing process still presents fairly high costs. This means that the majority of the people will not be able to afford to buy and install solar panels on th... |
9 April 2009
04:48 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the Internet, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd has recently announced the release of “its first ever, innovative” mobile phone that uses solar power to function, namely the “Solar Crest,” which is now available in Pakistan. The new cell phone is meant to utilize as... |
6 April 2009
05:01 GMT |
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The growing effects of climate change and global warming have prompted a lot of companies and other entrepreneurs to start investing in renewable energy, such as solar power and wind farms. However, it would seem that a new problem is now emerging, namely the fact that large amounts of solar panels, scheduled to be c... |
30 March 2009
09:00 GMT |
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Dialog Telekom, a Sri Lankan operator, has announced its plans to deploy ten solar and wind-powered base stations around the country. The company has already set up two base stations this month, and plans to go live with the other eight sites in March and April this year. These will comprise five off-grid and five on... |
23 February 2009
03:44 GMT |
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Orange Guinea Conakry and Ericsson announced recently the deployment of over 100 base stations that are fully powered by solar energy, meant to provide connectivity in remote parts of rural Africa. The mobile phone carrier is trying to increase its coverage in both rural and urban areas through Ericsson's energy... |
19 February 2009
03:48 GMT |
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Soon after Samsung announced the development of a solar-powered mobile phone that would be showcased at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, we learned that another Korean phone maker, LG Electronics, also came forward with a similar device, meant to be demoed at the show as well. Although LG h... |
13 February 2009
06:54 GMT |
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced an innovative solar-powered full-touch screen phone called “Blue Earth,” which fits the company's vision for environmental sustainability. Samsung reinforces its commitment to protect the environment under the slogan “The Blue Earth Dream: Eco-living with ... |
13 February 2009
03:01 GMT |
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The United Kingdom currently debates the faith of one of the most ambitious water projects in the world, the 20 billion pound- ($28 billion-) Severn barrage, which is to stretch for a whooping 10 miles (16 kilometers), between Lavernock Point near Cardiff and Brean Down near Weston-super-Mare. The giant tidal wave po... |
2 February 2009
09:08 GMT |
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Although it's very difficult to set up renewable energy-producing units in the very harsh conditions of Antarctica, most bases on the southern continent do it nonetheless, in an attempt to rid at least this part of the world of the dangerous effects of greenhouse gases (GHG), the main trigger of climate change a... |
20 January 2009
06:56 GMT |
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One more gadget has entered the neat world of the “go green:” it's the solar-powered iPhone leather case from Solar Arcadia. Now, there are so many reasons for you to choose this special product over any common one (or any case at all), and the “green factor” is only one of them. From the... |
22 December 2008
05:45 GMT |
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