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Coating helps solar panels soak up more of the sun

November 5th, 2008 · No Comments

A new type of reflective coating can make solar panels far more efficient, soaking up nearly all available sunlight from nearly any angle, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Current solar panels — which convert energy from the sun into electricity — absorb only about two-thirds of available sunlight.
But surfaces treated with a coating developed at Rensselaer [...]

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UC San Diego Installs Unique Solar Shade-Trees

September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

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UC San Diego is using one of its free gifts – some of the best solar exposure in the country – to further power and shade the campus. Several solar trees (solar panels installed on a vertical racking system that supports the “canopy” solar array) will be installed over two parking garages [...]

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0.3% of Saharan Sun Enough To Power Europe

July 27th, 2008 · No Comments

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The major obstacle to using renewable energy has always been the inability to produce a constant supply of electricity to consumers. However, scientists now believe that they have found a way to solve the supply and demand problem.

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Saharan sun to power European supergrid

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

A worker tends to the world’s largest solar plant in Germany. Photo: Waltraud Grubitzsch/EPA/Corbis

Vast farms of solar panels in the Sahara desert could provide clean electricity for the whole of Europe, according to EU scientists working on a plan to pool the region’s renewable energy.

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WIND-LIT SOLAR LEDs: Powered by the sun, moved by the wind

April 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Imagine your next summer backyard party: the sun has just gone down, the music is playing, and, as the breeze picks up, the lights come on from a string of solar powered, wind-lit LED lights. This innovative design for enchanting outdoor lighting is from Yoshihiro Shimomura, a circuit designer design lecturer at Chiba University in [...]

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