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Rise And Shine: Solar Power Gets Bigger In The U.S.
US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar yesterday approved theconstruction of the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant withan overall capacity of 1,000MW. in the Mojave desert near Blythe,California. The 7,025-acre Blythe Solar Power Project will nearly double thecountry’s solar power output and will power around 300,000 homes,besides saving save one million tons of carbon [...]
BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Bigger than Manhattan
The oil spill that continues to pump an estimated 5,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico is nowlarger than all of Manhattan. Google Maps engineer Paul Rademacher has created an image of the oil spill and you can punch in any city or region in the word and lay the oilspill over top [...]
Bigger is Better in Solar
Just how diverse and competitive the thin film solar industry is becoming was evident at Photon’s second PV Technology Show held in San Francisco last week. During a panel set up to explore manufacturing technology choices,five companies discussed their solutions – Applied Materials,Centrotherm Photovoltaics, Energosolar, Leybold Optics, and Oerlikon.The speakers each made the case for what [...]
In Mass, Building Efficiency will be bigger than Solar
Last week, I wrote about how Building Efficiency will be BIGGER than the Solar Industry in Massachusetts, this is a follow up to my original post. With huge money flowing through ‘Cash for Caulkers’ (or HomeStar),Massachusetts DOER, and the utility companies to promote buildingefficiency, we should have a huge reduction in energy consumption andlots of [...]