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WTF? Residential Solar So Much Cheaper in Germany
In a follow-up to a 2012 study conducted by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL), researchers found that the average number of man-hours to install a PV system on a residence in Germany is 39. That’s a significant difference from the 7.5 man-hours LBL’s researchers found when they surveyed German PV installers in Sep. 2012, [...]
China’s Solar Growth: Holy Cow!
China is upping its solar target once again, after having done so several times in past couple of years. Last year, China raised the target to an eye-popping 21 gigawatts (GW) by 2015, and the new target of 35 GW is 67% higher than that. That means, in just 3 years, China will have added [...]
Shell Dissed by Greenpeace
For the past few days, people have been amazed by the marketing blunder committed by Shell when they launched their Arctic Ready website, looking for users to create their own ads with slogans to promote arctic drilling. The ad generator tool was, naturally, overtaken by environmental activists and general ‘internet trolls‘ alike to make Shell [...]
Bonuses for Solyndra’s Remaining Employees? #WTF
The corpse of bankrupt Solyndra continues to throw off taxpayer and venture cash to executives. Solyndra looks to pay its remaining staff an additional $500,000 in bonuses, according to reports in The Mercury News and The San Jose Business Journal. The attorneys for Solyndra (that would be Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones) are asking the [...]
WTF Happened to Nanotech?
The ability of nanotechnologies to deliver cost-effective renewableenergy and energy efficiency solutions has come under attack in arecently released report by the environmental campaigning organisationFriends of the Earth. The nano technology industry has over-promised and under-delivered,according to the report. The performance of nano-based renewables hasbeen considerably less than predicted. Efficiency of solar energyconversion by nano [...]