Learn about the latest solar energy news, and the up-and-coming solar products which make the best use of technological advancements in solar power.
When it comes to making our homes more energy efficient we all want to do our part. After all, the prudent use of energy is good for the environment, and it doesn’t hurt our pocketbooks either. And so we stay on the lookout for new and better ways to reduce home energy consumption, when right [...]
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From the glass and silicon used to manufacture the panels, all the way to the machinery that actually assembles them, Siemens is entrenched in the solar energy industry. In this video released last week, Siemens demonstrates how they are supporting this type of alternative energy, and the services they can offer to solar businesses looking [...]
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This week’s photo gallery features some of the best solar energy pictures we’ve found on Flickr in the past few weeks. Let us know which is your favorite! Do you have a photo you would like included in one of our weekly galleries? Submit it for consideration in next week’s gallery!
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Advancements in solar technology have come a long way. Anyone who thinks solar is just a passing fad is under the wrong impression. In fact, solar power research has been with us for over 25 years, but like with many other forms of technology, it may not have been prevalent to us as it had [...]
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Recently, during the Kyoto talks in Durban, China raised the need for developed countries to potentially fund $500 billion a year plus utilization of technology to developing nations, which I thought was very interesting and an excellent suggestion providing that the Chinese are among those who will do it and not seek to be seen [...]
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Will Rush Limbaugh save the solar industry? Looks that way for Toni Lynch in Allentown, Pennsylvania. And Spiro Basho in Hicksville, New York. Like lots of other solar installers, the financial tsunami of 2008 wiped out a lot of customers of both Lynch and Basho. And like a lot of other electrical contractors, through no [...]
Read more →In recent months the mainstream media have been carrying numerous scare stories concerning energy price rises of between 10 and 20 percent for the coming winter. Actually, they are more than just the usual media panics, prices for conventional fuels are indeed increasing and there is undoubtedly reason for concern. Despite the increasing cost, there [...]
Read more →Yesterday marked the beginning of the installation of 4,400 solar panels above the Blackfriars Station, which when completed will appear as a solar bridge 2 miles long. The image above is a computer generated image of what the solar bridge will look like when completed in 2012, ahead of the London Olympic Games. The huge [...]
Read more →For all of those bug-haters who have been too eco friendly to use chemical insecticides, AgriSolar has a new solar-powered insecticide that could mean pest-free crops and far fewer chemicals being used. The way that AgriSolar has done this is through a relatively simple solar-powered solution, that works like this: During the day a solar [...]
Read more →At last year’s TEDxTuscon event, Dave Follette gave a talk on the topic of gigawatt-scale solar power (embedded below), and why it’s not being implemented throughout Arizona, the most optimal area for generating energy from the sun across the United States. Although concentrated solar is by no means a new invention, Dave’s talk does a [...]
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