Deutsche Bank has released a report concluding that the cost of unsubsidized solar power is about the same as the cost of electricity from the grid in India and Italy, and that by 2014 even more countries will achieve solar “grid parity.” During 2013, China is expected
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Would task the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy A petition to the White House to task the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to examine space solar power (SSP) as a new energy and space goal for the U.S. has been posted
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Space-based solar power (SBSP) has once again begun to attract attention with projects emerging in the US, Russia, China, India and Japan, among others. All are driven by increasing energy demands, soaring oil and gas prices, a desire to find clean alternatives to fossil fuels and by
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New research by Yale University scientists helps pave the way for the next generation of solar cells, a renewable energy technology that directly converts solar energy into electricity. Yale engineers have developed a cost-effective new way to improve the efficiency of crystalline silicon solar cells: using thin,
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem What is the problem? Our world is in danger. Our lifestyle, our prosperity, our existence is threatened. Scientists have warned about the damage we cause. We are starting to listen. Each year, Greenhouse
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University of Arizona (UA) researchers are continuing to improve groundbreaking technology to produce solar electricity at a price competitive with non-renewable energy sources. A prototype of the “tracker” at the university has a house-sized frame of crisscrossing steel tubes, mounted onto a swiveling post in the concrete
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U.S. solar developers are luring cash at record rates from investors ranging from Warren Buffett to Google Inc. (GOOG) and KKR & Co. by offering returns on projects four times those available for Treasury securities. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) together with the biggest Internet search company,
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The Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco City, the world’s largest eco-city, is not a green, carbon-free paradise where cars are banned from the streets. Instead, as its first residents moved in this month, they found it is remarkably like most other Chinese cities: shrouded in smog and depressingly grey.
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SCHOTT Solar PV Inc. has launched a new program called SCHOTT Solar PRO Design Services. The new offering is designed to help installers to reduce costs and time for developing plans, streamline the permitting process, and solve complex design and engineering challenges. The SCHOTT Solar PRO Design
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Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. says that its Pluto cell technology has set a world-record 20.3% efficiency for a production cell using standard commercial-grade p-type silicon wafers. The cell was developed by Suntech’s research and technology development team, in collaboration with the University of New South Wales.
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