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Affordable Energy Storage: The Holy Grail Of Clean Energy
Enabling safe, clean energy that will never run out is a key toaverting catastrophic climate change. Roughly half the “solution” toglobal warming is solar and wind [see "How the world can (and will) stabilize at 350 to 450 ppm"]. Of course, many U.S. concentrated solar plants will use low-cost, high-efficiency thermal storage. In the longer term, [...]
HelioFocus Has A New Idea for Solar Thermal Power
HelioFocus, which grew out of research at Israel’s WeizmannInstitute, has created an unusual solar thermal device that it claimsthat will take up far less real estate than the parabolic dishes andheliostats already being deployed to convert heat into electricity. The details, though, take a little getting used to. The finalversion will be a six-story high [...]
Tampa Florida Community Focuses on Energy Efficiency
Anaffordable townhome community planned for Tampa is expected to be oneof the first in the nation to achieve a top-tier rating for energyefficiency, reducing usage by more than 45 percent.The 57-homeWestshore Landings One, expected to be complete in 2010, is a jointeffort between TECO Energy’s Tampa Electric and Peoples Gas incooperation with the Westshore Community [...]
Trading Outlook for Energy Conversion Devices (ENER)
Energy Conversion Devices Inc. (ENER)develops, manufactures and markets integrated commercial rooftopphotovoltaics (PVs), a fast growing segment of the solar sector. Usingproprietary thin-film solar technology, solar energy is converted toelectric current. Its UNI-SOLAR brand laminates are light weight,flexible, durable and easy-to-install. The Company also engages innovel nonvolatile digital memory technology that provides advantages tothe cell phone, [...]
GT Solar Has (Silane) Gas
GT Solar,a leading global provider of specialized equipment and technology forthe solar power industry, has announced the availability of its SilaneProduction Package. This package is a bundled solution that enables manufacturers ofsolar cells to secure local sources of silane gas (SiH4), an explosiveand toxic, but widely used chemical compound for producing thin siliconlayers in photovoltaic [...]
Global PV power market to resume growth in 2011
Photovoltaic technology has a very straightforward value proposition:it converts sunlight to electricity. Its advantages are simple tounderstand: sunshine is free, and the conversion process yields cleanenergy, with no harmful emissions or byproducts. Solar cellsare long-lasting and non-polluting, typically operating for 25 yearsbefore being recycled. Photovoltaic systems have no moving parts, whichmeans maintenance is minimal as [...]
GT Solar Stock Alert
GT Solar International Inc. (Nasdaq: SOLR), a provider of specializedmanufacturing equipment and services essential for the production ofphotovoltaic wafers, cells and modules and polysilicon, introduced itsSilane Production Package, which includes the company’s proprietaryequipment and GT Solar’s silane technology expertise. The Merrimack, N.H.-based company said in a news release the SilaneProduction Package allows companies engaged in [...]
Seeing Solar In A Different Light
Is Solar Power Dead in the Water? That’s the reductionist headline for a more nuanced op-ed published recently in the WaPo by Robert Glennon. Glennon is a professor of law and public policy at the University of Arizona and the author of an excellent new book, Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What to Do About [...]
The Global Warming Formula
“ Global Warming Potential(GWP)” is a simple and commonly used method to estimate the warmingeffects of different long-lived greenhouse gases relative to eachother. GWPs are expressed in terms of emissions of carbon dioxide, themost common and important human-induced greenhouse gas because of itsabundance and ability to absorb energy in the form of infraredradiation which produces [...]