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Germany: Fighting Climate Change And Phasing Out Nuclear
Climate Progress | April 27, 2012Recently, the editorial board of the Washington Post asked if the world can fight global warming without nuclear power, looking to Germany and Japan for the answer....
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Will solar windows transform buildings into energy producers?
The vast amount of glass in skyscrapers and office buildings represents enormous potential for an emerging technology that turns windows into solar panels. But major questions remain as to whether...
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His EV battery poised for a comeback, does Edison have new currency for the...
As the proliferation of renewables has undergone its inevitable rise and fall and rise again in recent years, it has become fashionable to point to the geniuses of the past both as advocates (or...
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Solar legislation opposed by utilities
Shocking. Big energy hates renewable energyhttp://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Solar-legislation-opposed-by-utilities-38...California legislators are poised to vote this week on a pair of bills that...
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Spinach-Based Solar Cells Pack a Powerful Punch
Bio-hybrid solar cells with 100% efficiency ! added by: artemis6 35 comments
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Water-Filled Glass Orbs Might be the Next Step in Solar Power
Solar power isn’t a new concept in alternative energy―in fact, it may be one of the oldest. But for Barcelona-based design firm Rawlemon, architecting a new way to harness that energy led to the...
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Katrina-damaged neighborhood is rebuilt into the largest solar project in...
Let's hope Sandy rebuilding efforts take a lesson from thisThere’s been a lot of talk since Sandy passed through about rebuilding better, smarter, and cleaner. Well, here’s a real-life example of how...
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Growing food in the desert: commercialization vs sustainability
Philipp Saumweber is creating a miracle in the barren Australian outback, growing tonnes of fresh food. So why has he fallen out with the pioneering environmentalist who invented the revolutionary...
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Small is big: Bangladesh installs one million solar home systems
by Justin GuayA few months back, Nancy Wimmer told us about Bangladesh’s solar success. In one of the poorest countries on earth, a renewable energy company, Grameen Shakti, is busy installing nearly...
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Solar For All
If "revolution" sounds like hyperbole, consider this: U.S. solar installations more than doubled from the second quarter of 2011 to the second quarter of 2012. Last August, California's utility-scale...
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Renewable energy could "run Australia"
By Paul Brown Climate News NetworkLONDON – Australia could be self-sufficient in renewable energy in 10 years by converting to solar and wind energy if the country had the right social and political...
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The Rooftop Revolution is here
Yes, it is possible.More at the link added by: JanforGore 13 comments
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New world record for organic solar technology; cell efficiency of 12%
(Nanowerk News) Heliatek GmbH, the leader in organic solar films, today announced a record breaking 12.0% cell efficiency for its organic solar cells. This world record, established in cooperation with...
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Space Instrument Adds Big Piece to Solar Corona Puzzle
Jan. 23, 2013 — The Sun's visible surface, or photosphere, is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. As you move outward from it, you pass through a tenuous layer of hot, ionized gas or plasma called the corona....
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The Solar Boom is Here (VIDEO)
While many on the right have changed their tune recently, the latest influx of 100 new teabagging Republican dolts in congress includes about half that are unbelievably still climate change skeptics....
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Solar power - not as clean as you thought
To dispose of the material, the companies must transport it by truck or rail far from their own plants to waste facilities hundreds and, in some cases, thousands of miles away. The fossil fuels used to...
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Rising Solar Power Production In U.S. Likely To Make It Second-Largest New...
Solar power is on the rise, even as the growth rate of U.S. electricity consumption has been slowing. This year, energy generated from solar power will be the second-largest source added to the U.S....
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Desert nomads marvel at water purifier "box"
Omar Razzouki gazes intently at the wooden box, marveling at what might be the solution to the perennial water woes that he and other nomads like him across the Sahara desert face daily.More than 330...
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FRANCE STARTED BUILDING A SOLAR STADIUM
It seems that a new boom in the construction of large-scale facilities using renewable energy has started in the world. This week, in Australia largest in the southern hemisphere wind farm, capable of...
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Cross-country solar plane expedition set for take off
By DIANE CARDWELL MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — When Bertrand Piccard was growing up in Switzerland, heady discussions about the boundless potential for human endeavor were standard fare. His grandfather, a...
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