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Africa Will Add More Renewable Energy In 2014 Than In The Last 14 Years Combined
Renewable energy is getting cheaper, and Africa is taking advantage of it.
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Emerging solar plants scorch birds in mid-air
Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant's concentrated sun rays — "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair.
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Old car batteries could make cheaper, more efficient solar panels
Instead of heading to the landfill, the lead in outdated car batteries could power your home.
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This car may soon be the world’s first street-legal vehicle powered by the sun
An Australian team just built the fastest solar-powered vehicle to cover 500 kilometers.
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Rules prevent solar panels in many states with abundant sunlight
Few places in the country are so warm and bright as Mary Wilkerson's property on the beach near St. Petersburg , Fla., a city once noted in the Guinness Book of World Records for a 768-day stretch of sunny days.
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China Will Install More Solar This Year Than The U.S. Ever Has
According to new numbers released by the Chinese government, China added 3.3 gigawatts of solar capacity in the first six months of the year ending June 30, marking a 100 percent increase over the same period last year. That brings China’s total solar supply to 23 gigawatts — 13 shy of the country’s goal of installing 35 by the end of 2015.
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Startup Demonstrates Ultra-efficient Stacked Solar Cells
A novel manufacturing method could make it practical to stack solar cells and convert more of the energy in sunlight into electricity.
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Silicon: After the chip, another revolution?
The original silicon revolution was of course, glass. Man first began to explore its properties a million and a half years ago - that's when our ancient ancestors discovered that obsidian, the almost jet black glass which is sometimes formed when lava cools rapidly, was useful. Obsidian breaks leaving a very keen edge, so was good for weapons and tools including, in some ancient cultures, knives used for ritual circumcisions.
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Ultra-thin spray-on solar cells to bring cheap green energy to the masses
Scientists have developed low-cost spray-on solar cells that could result in a dramatic drop in the price of solar electricity. Designed to be applied using a method similar to car paint, the cells could be easily mass produced, giving solar power the chance of ubiquity. The spray technique also results in very little waste, which helps to keep manufacturing costs low.
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Solar has won. Even if coal were free to burn, power stations couldn't compete
Giles Parkinson: As early as 2018, solar could be economically viable to power big cities. By 2040 over half of all electricity may be generated in the same place it's used. Centralised, coal-fired power is over
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Solar-powered 'smart' benches coming to Boston
Solar-powered benches called Soofas will be appearing in Boston parks soon, the Boston Globe reports. Besides, you know, something to sit on, the bench will offer a charging station and a wireless internet connection to provide information such as air quality, using your location-based data.
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'Solar-powered donkeys' carry Internet for Turkish sheepherders
A solar panel producer in western Turkey has said recent international media coverage of their "plug-and-play donkey" project proved that they are on the right track. BBC News reported on June 24 that sheepherders in western Turkey have now equipped their donkeys to cart around solar panels that will enable them to be connected 24/7. The video shows a donkey equipped with a large panel strapped to its back walking across rocky, dry terrain.
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Scientists Swapped a Toxic Chemical in Solar Cells For a Tofu Ingredient
Thin-film solar cells promise to bring flexible, low-profile solar power to all kinds of surfaces. Unfortunately, constructing thin-film panels requires cadmium chloride, a finicky, expensive, and toxic material. Now, University of Liverpool scientists have figured out how to make solar cells using magnesium chloride, a compound so innocuous, it's actually used in the production of tofu.
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Germany Now Produces Half Of Its Energy Using Solar
Germany has set a new record, with solar power providing 50.6% of its electricity in the middle of the day on Monday June 9th. Solar production peaked that day at 23.1GW. Three days earlier it was 24.2GW between 1 and 2pm, but on the 9th demand was down for a public holiday, allowing the breaking of the psychological 50% barrier.
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The metal that can store power for a small town
Hawaii has a problem, one that the whole world is likely to face in the next 10 years. And the solution could be a metal that you've probably never heard of - vanadium. Hawaii's problem is too much sunshine - or rather, too much solar power feeding into its electricity grid.
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Can a Plane Fly Around the World on Solar Power Alone?
With a wingspan greater than a 747, but weighing less than most cars, the Solar Impulse 2 will attempt to circumnavigate the planet.
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Chile Solar Power Plant Is Now Latin America’s Largest
The plant is projected to produce 270GWh of electricity per year. This means 125,000 homes will be able to count on solar energy.
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Solar plane makes inaugural flight
A solar-powered plane that will be taken on a round-the-world journey in 2015 has made its inaugural flight. The Solar Impulse 2 vehicle lifted off from Payerne airfield in Switzerland at just after 03:35 GMT (04:35 BST; 05:35 CEST), returning two hours later.
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Amazing Solar Impulse 2 #FirstFlight Landing
Watch the Landing of Solar Impulse 2 during its First Flight! It happened on June 2 2014, in Payernem Switzerland. WHAT IS SOLAR IMPULSE ? The only airplane of perpetual endurance, able to fly day and night on solar power, without a drop of fuel. Our challenge is to attempt the First Round-The-World Solar Flight in 2015.
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Modi to Use Solar to Bring Power to Every Home by 2019
India’s new government led by Narendra Modi plans to harness solar power to enable every home to run at least one light bulb by 2019, a party official said. “We look upon solar as having the potential to completely transform the way we look at the energy space,” said Narendra Taneja, convener of the energy division at Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, which swept to power on May 16 in the biggest electoral win in three decades.
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