School districts in the United States are one sector that has consistently struggled with monetary issues. One of the many costs which school district... Read More
Recent Solar News
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School District Solar Panel Agreement A Model For Others
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Solar Wells Slowly Outshining Windmills in American West
Windmills have been the lifelines for remote areas of American ranches for nearly 150 years. They have helped to increase areas for livestock graz... Read More
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U.S. Sets Aside Land For Solar Testing
The United States is growing as a world leader in wind energy manufacturing and installations. The United States is also proving to be a world leader ... Read More
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Egypt Expanding Renewable Energy Sector, Hopes To Export To Europe
Governments across the globe have set various goals for renewable energy generation. For example, Egypt’s government has pledged to generate twenty ... Read More
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Solar Aircraft Completes a Historic First Ever Self Powered Night-time Flight
Flying in the night sky, a giant glider like plane completed a historic flight lasting 26 hours and 9 minutes. It was the longest and highest flig... Read More
Interesting Solar News
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Alternative Energy - Things you didn't know
As our energy needs rise, as our supplies of fossil fuels run out and as the state of our planet become more precarious, we increasingly need to look ... Read More
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New Solar Technology Doubles Use of Sunlight
New technology could, within the year, lower the price of solar energy below that of conventional energy. Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy,... Read More
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The sun is not to blame for global warming
It’s global warming, it’s climate change, it’s our fault, no it’s volcanoes… wait, actually it’s the sun! Or maybe not. The arguments abo... Read More
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Thin-Film Photovoltaic Sheets: Solar Panels for Everyone!
Solar panels that come as ink, and can be printed onto foil using printing-press technology, seem a little far-fetched- or maybe too good to be true. ... Read More
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Sun power gets cheaper
Last month, a Spanish company opened a solar power plant in the Nevada desert that produces more power than any other solar installation in the countr... Read More
Solar Panels
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Thin-Film Photovoltaic Sheets: Solar Panels for Everyone!
Solar panels that come as ink, and can be printed onto foil using printing-press technology, seem a little far-fetched- or maybe too good to be true. ... Read More
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How Solar Panels Are Made
Have you wondered how they make solar panels? This video gives us a rough idea. First, photovoltaic cells made of silicone with conducting grooves a... Read More
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Personal, Portable Solar Panels
Solar panels that fit in your pocket are ideal for today’s world, when most people carry at least two different electronic devices on them at all ti... Read More
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British Castle Installs Solar Panels
Dunster castle in Somerset in the UK, has been protecting Britain from the threat of invading armies for nearly 2000 years – and now, with rising se... Read More
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Solar Panels Everywhere
As energy prices soar, the world is seeking out new ways of bring electricity to the public. And solar power is a big contributor to these new ideas. ... Read More
Sponsors
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Going Green? Where is my Green!!!
Some environmental government initiatives are well known; bottle deposit and refund programs are immediately visible to the consumer, a... Read More
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Green-Roofs, is your city alive?
So, you're finally a homeowner. You've scrimped and saved, and bought the closest thing to a castle that you could afford in a seller's... Read More
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The Melting of Greenland is Accelerating!
Data gathered by a pair of NASA satellites orbiting Earth show Greenland continued to lose ice mass at a significant rate through April... Read More
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Keep it a Green Christmas this year
Now that Halloween is over, the Christmas season is being shoved into our faces almost as aggressively as political ads. The d... Read More
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How To: Persuading a Politician to Go Green
With the democratic takeover of both the House and Senate earlier this month, many took it as a sign that issues with the environment might finally st... Read More
Solar Life
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Barbecue Green
Hey, barbecue fans! Spring is here. If you don’t have the grill out yet, you’re late. Keeping the oven off in the sweltering heat will help keep... Read More
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Greener Backpacking
Backpacking can be a unique and wonderful experience, whether it is done in a natural or urban setting. Unfortunately it can sometimes be difficult to... Read More
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Personal, Portable Solar Panels
Solar panels that fit in your pocket are ideal for today’s world, when most people carry at least two different electronic devices on them at all ti... Read More
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Cooking By The Power Of The Sun
Unless you live under a rock on Mars, with your fingers in your ears and your eyes shut, you know that oil is at a record high. Reaching $140 a barrel... Read More
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Want Solar? Go to Sam’s Club
Buying Solar power just got easier for Southern California Residences, who will now be able to make purchases from their local Sam’s Club. The ... Read More
Solar Homes
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Spray-On Solar-Power Cells Are True Breakthrough
Scientists have invented a plastic solar cell that can turn the sun's power into electrical energy, even on a cloudy day. The pla... Read More
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9 Most Unusual Solar Gadgets
The human race has entered into the new millennium with great expectations of what futuristic products will become available to them. While flying c... Read More
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Install a Solar Panel
The best way to reduce your fossil fuel-derived energy consumption is to switch the energy source. Homeowners across the world are making the switch ... Read More
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Solar Power Tower
As you drive through the Andalusian countryside you may be greeted by a strange sight, a giant tower gleaming in the sun's light surrounded by a sea o... Read More
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Do-it-yourself Solar Heating
Energy is a limited resource; at least in the forms we are now using to produce it. Gas, petroleum, oil, and coal are very expensive, quickly running ... Read More
Solar Home Projects
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Starting With Solar
Most of us cannot feasibly afford to install a full solar power system into our homes. Energy Refuge suggests starting small. One solar panel and a se... Read More
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Install a Solar Panel
The best way to reduce your fossil fuel-derived energy consumption is to switch the energy source. Homeowners across the world are making the switch ... Read More
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Do-it-yourself Solar Heating
Energy is a limited resource; at least in the forms we are now using to produce it. Gas, petroleum, oil, and coal are very expensive, quickly running ... Read More
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Solar Decathlon: A New Kind of House
Good ideas for energy efficiency come up all the time in this day and age. And a newer event is sparking the imagination of students to go beyond what... Read More
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Turning Window Panes into Solar Gains
Let’s call them 'organic solar collectors', for want of a better word. But it is exactly what this new development in glass technology does. We get ... Read More
Controversy
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Quick Fix Versus Long-term Solutions
We really do live in a fascinating time. Future generations could look at this era in the same way we do at the period between the Dark Ages and the R... Read More
Companies & Governments Going Solar
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Google Going Solar
In the largest solar panel system ever constructed in the US, Google Inc. is planning to incorporate 9,212 solar panels to power 30% of their Mountain... Read More
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GAP to go Solar Powered
It wasn't too long ago that clothing brand Gap Inc faced naked protesters and country wide boycotts over their questionable treatment of factory wor... Read More
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World’s first solar electric bus unveiled in Adelaide
Bright red double decker buses have long been one of the iconic images of London, but with the days of the diesel dinosaurs at an end, it is solar and... Read More
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GM Launch Solar Car, Win Green Award
GM's hybrid concept car, the Chevy Volt, is already gracing TV screens as part of the company's 'From gas friendly to gas free' campaign, but now GM h... Read More
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The Greenification of Walmart
A company long vilified for its business practices and low prices is starting to concentrate on their environmental impact. Walmart has a couple gree... Read More
Big Solar Projects
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Solar Sea
A new environmentally friendly energy source may be found in the world's oceans. Marine bacteria DNA contains 'proteorhodopsin', a light capturing pi... Read More
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Rebuilding Green In New Orleans
For many residents of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward who saw their homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, the future of their neighborhood is still unce... Read More
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B.C. to be Energy Self-Sufficient
By the year 2025, the Province of British Columbia could create enough energy to be completely energy self-sufficient while also reducing greenhouse g... Read More
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Outdoor Solar Lighting
Since the beginning of time, the Sun has been provided us with the light needed to nourish the life-force of our planet. As mankind advanced, along wi... Read More
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Carbon-Free City In the Desert
Masdar. A carbon- and waste-free city, in the middle of the desert of the emirate of Abu Dhabi. Now, it hasn’t been built yet, but the plans sound... Read More
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