Energy Research Project for Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, and Green Energy Technologies

1. Self-cleaning technology from Mars can keep terrestrial solar panels dust free
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A very darned interesting new method for keeping solar panels clean without water! ...

2. Transparent Sticker Increases Already Installed Solar Panels Efficiency by 10 Percent
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The power output of solar panels can be boosted by 10 percent just by applying a big transparent sticker to the front. Developed by a small startup called Genie Lens Technologies, the sticker is a polymer ...

3. Economical Solar Panels to Yield More Energy
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There has been research work going on to increase the efficiency of the cost-effective amorphous solar panels. TU Delft has been the center where this research work is being developed. The research ...

4. Change in Ontario's FIT Program: New Price for Ground-mounted Solar Panels
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5. Sneaky Solar: Solar energy developers seek to move beyond clunky rooftop panels
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"The next big leap in solar materials will be hard to see. ...

6. Explained: Phonons
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For the engineers who design cell phones, solar panels and computer chips, it’s increasingly important to be able to control the way heat moves through the crystalline materials — such as silicon — that ...

7. Solar Panel Manufacturer Gets $400 Million DOE Conditional Loan Guarantee
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President Obama has announced a $400 million Recovery Act conditional loan guarantee to Abound Solar Manufacturing for thin-film solar panel assembly facilities in Colorado and Indiana. When fully operational ...

8. President Obama Announces $400 Million Conditional Commitment Offer to Support Solar Panel Manufacturing
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In his weekly video address, President Obama announced the offer of a conditional commitment for a loan guarantee of $400 million to Abound Solar Manufacturing, LLC to manufacture state-of-the-art thin-film ...

9. Synthetic Fuel from CO2 and Solar Energy?
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Really amazing are the innovative ways solar power is put into use. Now a team of scientists working in Sandia National Laboratories is focusing on exploring basic steps to make synthetic liquid fuel ...

10. Solar Panels – Are They a Threat to Biodiversity?
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Solar panels are gaining more recognition as key ingredients to produce eco-friendly and renewable source of energy. With growing need for more energy, there will be in future, a plethora of solar ...

11. Solar Shortages Looming With Boom in Worldwide Demand
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First Solar, the world's cheapest solar panel maker, is reporting that they cannot meet this years demand for solar panels, and three more major manufacturers; Suntech, Yingli and Trina are also signaling ...

12. National Semiconductor's SolarMagic Chipset Makes Solar Panels "Smarter"
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National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:NSM), a leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance analog semiconductors, today introduced the solar industry's first in-panel SolarMagic™ chipset, marking ...

13. Walmart Foundation funds school solar projects
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"The Walmart Foundation donates $1.2 million to the National Energy Education Development Project to install solar panels on 20 schools in 5 U.S. cities. ...

14. Nanosolar: Solar Power at a Lower Cost
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In a market-friendly scenario, Nanosolar claims to be able to produce electricity at 5-6 cents/kilowatt hour almost as cheap as power from coal and at about one-third the cost of other solar power. ...

15. New water-splitting catalyst found
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... fuels as needed. Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry, says that solar energy is the only feasible long-term way of meeting the world’s ever-increasing needs for energy, ...

16. New type of thermodynamic waterheater for households
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I just read about a new type of solar based water heaters for households, that are already on the market. The setup is pretty much the same as with normal solar water heaters. There are panels for absorbing ...

17. Carbon-based Solar Cells
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Solar panels need silicon for absorption of light. Silicon doesn’t come cheap.This cost-factor is preventing people from using solar energy on a large scale. Scientists utilize another substance ...

18. Viruses harnessed to split water
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... problem of solar energy: It’s only available when the sun shines. By using sunlight to make hydrogen from water, the hydrogen can then be stored and used at any time to generate electricity using a fuel ...

19. Federal Buildings Go Green with $4 Billion in Recovery Act Funds
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... upgrades such as high-efficiency heating and cooling, solar panels, and solar water heaters. ...

20. Slideshow: Solar power, shaped up
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Flat solar photovoltaic panels are becoming more widespread, but the power they produce varies over the course of the day as the sun’s position changes — unless the panels are mounted on tracking systems ...

21. 3 Questions: David MacKay on renewable energy
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... which collects heat from solar hot water panels, and stores it in a huge hole in the ground, and then they can pump it back out in winter, and it provides heat for quite a few dwellings.  ...

22. Solar Panels Give Back to the Environment by Making a Completely Solar Home
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Solar panel engineers aim to bring homeowners the option of having a house fully run by solar energy. With use of solar energy consumers can now save on electric bills while helping the environment conserve ...

23. Skyscrapers Give Back to the Environment with Solar Energy Use
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Solar panel development brings solar energy to large companies by switching from windows to solar panels. Skyscrapers can now run on energy from to sun in order to protect earth's nonrenewable resour ...

24. Energy saving begins at home: a Renewable Energy Specialist installs a double dose of solar power at his own house
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It's no surprise that professionals working in any renewable energy field are aware of the practical, carbon-saving benefits of installing solar energy in their own homes. For Tony Almond, boss of Planet ...

25. Solar Energy from Plant Protein Structure
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Nanoscience is quite fascinated with the process of photosynthesis. They want to duplicate this process exhibited by green plants and utilize the solar power for energy use. Till now power generating ...

26. Solar power could provide 10% of US energy: report (AFP)
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AFP - The United States could source 10 percent of its electricity from solar power by 2030, a report said Tuesday, winning support from a US lawmaker who wants to boost the number of US solar panels. ...

27. Qatar, Germany set up solar power joint venture (AP)
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AP - A state-run foundation in the natural gas-rich state of Qatar says it is setting up a joint venture plant with Germany's SolarWorld to produce the main ingredient in solar panels. ...

28. OPEL Solar, Inc. Receives 2010 Connecticut Green Business Award for Solar Innovation
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Shelton, CT and Toronto, ON, February 25, 2010 – OPEL Solar, Inc., a leading global developer and supplier of high concentration photovoltaic ("HCPV") solar panels and other solar products, including ...

29. Berlin wants to cut solar power subsidies: lawmaker (AFP)
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AFP - The German government wants to slash its support to the solar energy industry to prevent the market from overheating, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party said Tuesday.  ...

30. Intel Sets Up Plan to Install 2.5 MW Worth of Solar Rooftop Systems
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"Intel Corp. plans to install rooftop solar panels at its Chandler complexes as part of a companywide solar power initiative. ...