Energy
- Fight The Snobbery- Maybe Solar Efficiency Is Good Enough
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Solar photovoltaic (PV) mass-market polycrystalline panels are typically about 15% efficiency. Pretty terrible, right? Maybe, maybe not. Cars- both gasoline and electric vehicles, despite what the electric car hype machine claims- are only slightly more ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 9 2012 - 8:41pm
- Creative Energy: Leveraging Husk Power In India
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In Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, 85 percent of people are not connected to the electricity grid so households use kerosene lamps when they can afford it and businesses use expensive and dirty diesel generators. Some view this 'energy pov ...
Article - Stephanie Hanson - Jan 11 2012 - 9:55pm
- New Online Tools For Solar Site Prospecting And Bankable Photovoltaic Yield Assessment
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ABU DHABI, UAE, January 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/-- From now planning of solar power plants and photovoltaic systems in the Middle East and North Africa is easy, fast and accurate as never before. GeoModel Solar, a leading international provider of solar reso ...
Article - Newswire - Jan 17 2012 - 5:30pm
- Quantum Dots May Boost Solar Efficiency 45 Percent
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If you don't think the government should be artificially mandating winners and losers among clean energy companies with artificial subsidies, don't let that turn you off of basic research, where the real improvement in future clean energy will be ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2012 - 3:51pm
- New Bid To Halt Nuclear Power Plant Construction
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Like global warming? You can thank nuclear power protesters. Since the 1970s, a full-scale public relations war on nuclear power has been waged, meaning a growing population became more reliant on fossil fuels instead of zero-emissions nuclear power. N ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2012 - 11:31am
- Introduction to Biofuel plants
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Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Feb 20 2012 - 9:19pm
- MiaSole Expands European Organization
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SANTA CLARA, California, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/-- Michael Povlin appointed as Director Sales and Marketing to lead marketing strategy and sales execution throughout EMEA MiaSole, the leading manufacturer of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin- ...
Blog Post - Newswire - Sep 5 2012 - 11:05am
- One Day, You May Thank Nuclear Power For The Hydrogen Economy
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We all want fewer dictators getting rich holding the world hostage to the demands of legacy energy systems. And it can happen, though one anti-science contingent might not like how it gets done. The hydrogen economy has been ready to start for decades and ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2012 - 5:00am
- Microbial Fuel Cell Can Clean Sewage While It Generates Electricity
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A device the size of a home washing machine uses bacteria growing in municipal sewage to make electricity- and also clean up the sewage at the same time. Current wastewater treatment technology involves a number of steps designed to separate the solid and ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2012 - 9:56pm
- Buy More Coal To Halt Climate Change
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Mitigation, rationing, taxes. Environmental policy claims have historically been driven by negative thinking- a demand-side mindset that seeks to limit consumption of fossil fuels through pollution permits, greater expenses for consumers and multi-national ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 11 2012 - 4:55pm
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