Archive for February, 2008
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Friday, February 29th, 2008After gathering air pollution emissions data from 13 manufacturers of four major commercial types of solar cells in Europe and the United States from 2004 to 2006, scientists have concluded…
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Mount Pleasant’s Solar Power
Friday, February 29th, 2008Residents working with Switch LLC, a renewable energy company, are working to replace their electricity with 3000 kilowatt-hours of solar power in at least 100 homes in Mount Pleasant. However all this seems to be in jeopardy due to a …
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Concentrated Solar Power and energy storage
Friday, February 29th, 2008Based on a Discussion Webinar, Friday, 1 February 2008 Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) is not a new technology. A CSP plant in the California desert has been functioning effectively for fifteen years. Until recently however this …
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