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Apple Building Solar Farm in North Carolina

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

MIT Photovoltaic Cells Can Be Printed on Paper

Thanks to an innovation by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, experts are now capable of printing advanced photovoltaic circuits unto unconventional substrates such as paper and fabric. If this technology is scaled up and developed further, it could soon become possible to p...

12 July 2011
05:08 GMT

Largest US Solar Facility Gets Loan Guarantees

Agua Caliente Solar, LLC has just received a conditional commitment from the US Department of Energy (DOE), for loan guarantees extending to a maximum sum of $967 million. The money are destined for a solar power facility that will become the largest of its kind in the world. The planned, 290-megawatt photovoltaic so...

21 January 2011
05:41 GMT

Mimicking Photosynthesis in New Electronics

Thanks to a new investigation conducted by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), it may now become possible to design more advanced synthetic light-harvesting systems. For many year, researchers have been working hard on replicating the process of photosynthesis, through which plants turn su...

5 November 2010
07:45 GMT

Windows Could Be the Next Power Source

EnSol AS in collaboration with University of Leicester and an international team of scientists and industrialists will meet for the development of a new revolutionary technology that supplies electrical power.This new thin film solar cell technology should be developed commercially by 2016, but for now, the company i...

10 August 2010
09:24 GMT

Solar Energy to Power Up Aircraft

The future of aviation looks bright, aircraft constructors say, in the light of the fact that, next year, a new 1.5 ton aircraft, powered entirely by the sun, will complete a first-of-its-kind test flight. The plane is being built in order to prove that using solar energy to power up airplanes is a sustainable proces...

18 November 2008
03:18 GMT


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