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- Bay Area: sunny upside
- The past decade has seen a surge in solar installations across the San Francisco Bay Area and the Silicon Valley leads the region. Top five counties in the region: 1. Santa Clara County [San Jose]: 2,462 solar installations 2. Alameda County...
- Tags: Solar Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- The Green Enterprise: California Academy of Sciences [video]
- Since 1853, the California Academy of Sciences has been considered one of the world's most respected institutions. Now more than 150 years later, it's continuing to lead by example, showcasing how a museum can be environmentally sustainable from the ground up. Correspondent Sumi Das looks at the green innovations inside,...
- Tags: Solar Energy, Video, Telecom & Utilities, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- The Green Enterprise: California Academy of Sciences
- Since 1853, the California Academy of Sciences has been considered one of the world's most respected institutions. Now more than 150 years later, it's continuing to lead by example, showcasing how a museum can be environmentally sustainable from the ground up. Correspondent Sumi Das looks at the green innovations inside,...
- Tags: Solar Energy, Telecom & Utilities, The Green Enterprise, California Academy of Sciences, Living Roof, Aaron Pope, Ari Harding, Sumi Das
- Videos 2008-11-21
- Expect solar companies to get more creative about financing
- Earlier this year, I felt twinges of worry over whether or not the flagging economy would cause businesses to back off commitments to green technology investments. Now, I'm feeling sharper pangs of doubt over whether consumers and homeowners will be able to find the money to install solar panels or...
- Tags: Green Technology, Installation, Solar Energy, Financing, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technology
- Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technologyBut why?I'm all for alternative energy but I still don't understand why solar is becoming popular. Solar energy seems to be the least efficient. And it seems poised for quantum jumps in efficiency in the near future. So why...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, solar technology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technology
- It's midnight, do you know where your solar panel is? I read somewhere yesterday where thefts of solar panels are on the rise, no doubt due to the rather dear price that they still command. Hopefully, that's on a pace for change, given that many of us...
- Tags: Installation, Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Solar Energy Company Cuts Estimate Costs 80 Percent With Microsoft Mapping Technology
- Sungevity wanted to avoid the traditional cost, liability, and management overhead of traveling to customers' homes to measure rooftops to calculate estimates for solar energy systems. To make solar energy affordable and accessible to "Every homeowner with a view of the sun," the company uses Microsoft Virtual Earth mapping technology...
- Tags: Solar Energy, Microsoft Corp., Telecom & Utilities
- Case studies 2008-10-01
- All that solar energy is wasted overnight, but now there's a way to capture it
- All that solar energy is wasted overnight, but now there's a way to capture itI wonder...If they have considered this tech working with the flow cell battery things like they have in Australia.
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, solar energy
- Discussion threads 2008-08-23
- All that solar energy is wasted overnight, but now there's a way to capture it
- The folks at the Idaho National Laboratory say they've come up with a way to make solar energy work round the clock. The sporadic nature of solar energy and the need thus to store day-time solar for night-time use has long been one of the biggest bugaboos cited by...
- Tags: Solar Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-23
- Capturing solar energy from asphalt pavements
- Capturing solar energy from asphalt pavementsDemand Meets SupplyWe need more electricity for the subdivision we built.Quick, throw up another parking lot.That will mean more cars, more homes.Quick, throw up another parking lot.......RE: Capturing solar energy from asphalt pavementsI have been trying to get people interested in this for a couple...
- Tags: Asphalt, pavement, solar energy
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Capturing solar energy from asphalt pavements
- Massachusetts researchers have found a new method for capturing solar energy. They're using heat from asphalt and other paved surfaces to produce electricity. Through asphalt, 'the researchers are developing a solar collector that could turn roads and parking lots into ubiquitous -- and inexpensive -- sources of electricity and hot...
- Tags: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Solar Energy, Road, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Solar nanoantenna energy collectors
- U.S. researchers have developed a cheap way to produce plastic sheets containing billions of nanoantennas that collect solar energy. As said one Idaho National Laboratory INL scientist, 'these antennas are good at capturing energy, but they're not very good at converting it.' In fact, the team estimates these individual nanoantennas...
- Tags: Team, Researcher, Wavelength, Solar Energy, Energy, Computer, Team Management, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Is this the start of a true green revolution? Synthetic photosynthesis!
- Read all about it. MIT professor and a fellow researcher say they've duplicated the process of photosynthesis and can create synthetic leaves. That means sunlight turned into hydrogen and oxygen for fuel cells, or other energy applications. One possible drawback to this experimental process: it...
- Tags: Solar Energy, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Fuel Cells, Telecom & Utilities, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- This could be a window to our solar future
- This could be a window to our solar futureVenture CapitalistsA good chunk of the new energy science comes out of our universities and national labs. It's pretty common to see a team of professors and grad students come up with something hot and spin it off into company funded...
- Tags: kW, solar future, solar energy, venture capital, window
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- This could be a window to our solar future
- American researchers say they've developed a system of concentrating solar energy. It could be twice as efficient at turning sunlight into electricity. And it uses special paints. They could even be put onto windows. And the coatings add minimal cost while doubling efficiency. Here's...
- Tags: Window, Solar Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Construction, Research & Development, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Brightening outlook for solar energy?
- Brightening outlook for solar energy?Solar is a losing proposition..."It encourages solar companies to reduce its costs to $3 per peak watt or less by 2018..."Wind is at $0.02/watt right *now*. Why mess with solar???big solar facilities are not where its atBig solar facilities, like any other big power station,...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, solar energy
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Brightening outlook for solar energy?
- Wanted to add another couple of links related to Harry's post yesterday about SolarCity. The actual news of the day is the company's new 8,200-square-foot facility in Phoenix, from which it will run its SolarLease program. One thing that Harry didn't mention in his post is...
- Tags: Solar Energy, Investment, Utility Solar Assessment Study, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Solar power, no money down, could prove profitable
- Solar power, no money down, could prove profitableNot so fast...I have the perfect roof for this: South facing, steep pitch, no trees, and in Florida. So you'd think I would be a perfect candidate, right? Even with Florida's rebates and net metering, I wouldn't see breakeven until around...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, solar energy
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Solar power, no money down, could prove profitable
- You get a solar installation, you could get positive cash flow, and you pay no money down. Sounds like an offer you might read in some spam note from Bulgaria. But it's a legitimate offer from an legitimate cleantech company in California and Arizona. Solar...
- Tags: Electricity, Solar Energy, California, Arizona, Solar City, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- MIT students making solar power realistic
- MIT students making solar power realisticno kiddingIn fact, the researchers believe that, because they can concentrate the heat from the sun so intensely, any water run near the focus could easily be vaporized to run a turbine and generate electricity.For crying out loud.I'm getting so tired of this.Here's all you...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, UCSD, Peak-Power, solar energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SolarCity
- Discussion threads 2008-06-22
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