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China to Invest $1 Billion in Russian Solar Energy
Chinese power giant Amur Sirius plans to invest up to 45 billion rubles ($1 billion) in Russian solar energy starting next year, business daily Vedomosti reported Wednesday. Russia has blazing summers to match its harsh winters, and despite the country's wealth of hydrocarbon resources, the government is making moves to encourage the emergence of green energy.
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World first: Australian solar plant has generated “supercritical” steam that rivals fossil fuels’
A CSIRO test plant in Australia has broken a world record and proved solar power could efficiently replace fossil fuels.
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African Solar Plan to Power UK Homes
Investors are seeking funding from the UK government for an ambitious plan to import solar energy generated in North Africa.
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Cheaper tech, changing rules drive solar gold rush
When Ray Tse and her family moved into their Irvine home in April, their electricity bills averaged $250 a month. Then the long hot summer hit, increasing air conditioning use and pinching their pocketbook.
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Walmart Owners Backing Campaigns to Limit Rooftop Solar Power
The Walton family, owners of Walmart, donated millions of dollars to organizations opposed to government-backed incentives for solar power production, according to a report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILRS). And, says the report, the family, by way of a solar panel manufacturer that it controls, supported an Arizona regulation allowing the state's largest utility to impose a fee on households and businesses that install rooftop solar panels.
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Scientists Build First Rechargeable Solar Battery
Researchers may have created the very first solar battery. Scientists have succeeded in combining a battery and a solar cell into one hybrid device, which could be huge in terms of renewable energy capture and storage.
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MIT Thinks It Has Discovered the 'Perfect' Solar Cell
A new MIT study offers a way out of one of solar power's most vexing problems: the matter of efficiency, and the bare fact that much of the available sunlight in solar power schemes is wasted. The researchers appear to have found the key to perfect solar energy conversion efficiency—or at least something approaching it. It's a new material that can accept light from an very large number of angles and can withstand the very high temperatures needed for a maximally efficient scheme.
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Solar power is growing so fast that older energy companies are trying to stop it
If you ask the people who run America's electric utilities what keeps them up at night, a surprising number will say solar power. Specifically, rooftop solar. That seems bizarre at first. Solar power provides just 0.4 percent of electricity in the United States — a minuscule amount. Why would anyone care?
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The First Four-Seater, Solar-Powered Vehicle Hits The U.S. Road
Stella, the first ever family sized road vehicle that runs on the sun has made its U.S. debut. The car took first place in the World Solar Challenge and won the Michelin Cruiser Class for completing a 3,000 kilometer journey from Darwin to Adelaide in Australia last fall.
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The coming era of unlimited — and free — clean energy
The incredible drop in the price of solar energy will shake up our world.
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U.S. will train 50,000 veterans to install solar panels
The U.S. is planning to train veterans to become solar panel installers in the next six years, the White House said Thursday. The jobs training program is among a host of initiatives the White House says will cut carbon dioxide emissions by more than 300 million tons through 2030, plus save billions of dollars on energy bills for homeowners and businesses. It will launch this fall at one or more military bases and train a total of at least 50,000, including veterans.
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White House announces plan to train 50,000 people, including veterans, to install solar panels
The U.S. is planning to train veterans to become solar panel installers in the next six years, the White House said Thursday. The jobs training program is among a host of initiatives the White House says will cut carbon dioxide emissions by more than 300 million tons through 2030, plus save billions of dollars on energy bills for homeowners and businesses. It will launch this fall at one or more military bases and train a total of at least 50,000, including veterans.
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A Brighter Future: Five Ideas That Will Change Solar Energy
Transparent solar cells and a wonder material called perovskite are among a few innovative technologies that will put solar energy in a new light.
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Sun and Wind Alter Global Landscape, Leaving Utilities Behind
Of all the developed nations, few have pushed harder than Germany to find a solution to global warming. And towering symbols of that drive are appearing in the middle of the North Sea. They are wind turbines, standing as far as 60 miles from the mainland, stretching as high as 60-story buildings and costing up to $30 million apiece. On some of these giant machines, a single blade roughly equals the wingspan of the largest airliner in the sky, the Airbus A380.
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Solar, wind power proposed as way to refill hydrogen stations
The Environment Ministry is considering using alternative energy sources to generate hydrogen for the refueling stations being built to recharge fuel cells in next-generation automobiles, ministry officials said.
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Honda's Experimental Smart Home With Solar Panels Creates Energy As Well As Saving It!
This AMAZING solar panels smart home will give you inspiration and a helping hand to save to save money on your Energy Bills. Read about it now!
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Cheap Drinking Water From The Sun, Aided By A Pop Of Pencil Shavings
Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel did it to survive on the Pacific Ocean. Robert Redford used the trick in All Is Lost. When you're trapped on a boat, you can easily make fresh water, right? Simply let the sun heat up and evaporate salt water. Then trap the steam, condense it on a plastic surface and collect the fresh water. The liquid even gets sterilized in the process. So why can't people around the world who lack clean drinking water do something similar?
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Renewable energy capacity grows at fastest ever pace
Wind, solar and other renewable power capacity grew at its strongest ever pace last year and now produces 22% of the world's electricity, the International Energy Agency said on Thursday in a new report.
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A fully transparent solar cell that could make every window and screen a power source
Researchers at Michigan State University have created a fully transparent solar concentrator, which could turn any window or sheet of glass (like your smartphone's screen) into a photovoltaic solar cell. Unlike other 'transparent' solar cells that we've reported on in the past, which are actually quite colorful and opaque, this one really is transparen. The team are confident that the transparent solar panels can be efficiently deployed in a wide range of settings...
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Solar Power Poses Lower Risk to Birds Than Cats or Cars
Solar-thermal power plants in the U.S. are less likely to kill birds than automobiles, cats or communication towers, despite reports that say the facilities pose a significant threat to avian life.
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