Archive for May, 2008
« Previous Entries Next Entries »Commercial Solar Power
Saturday, May 31st, 2008And with this, there is an increase in the rates of these resources. This is why people try to establish a means of providing for their power needs locally and the most practical means of doing so is through solar power…
Read More
Solar power from huge islands floating on the ocean
Saturday, May 31st, 2008Can we help solve the CO2 crisis with huge floating islands of solar cells? Thomas Hinderling wants to build solar islands several miles across that he claims can produce hundreds of megawatts of relatively inexpensive power. …
Read More
CNN article on Solar Power Sats
Saturday, May 31st, 2008The satellites would electromagnetically beam gigawatts of solar energy back to ground-based receivers, where it would then be converted to electricity and transferred to power grids. And because in high earth orbit, satellites are …
Read More