Archive for May, 2008
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Friday, May 30th, 2008Local middle school students race shoebox-size solar cars at Freedom Plaza on Thursday in the Junior Solar Sprint Championship. Read More
Winery goes solar with ‘Floatovoltaics’ (San Francisco Chronicle)
Friday, May 30th, 2008Take nearly 1,000 photovoltaic panels and mount them on 130 pontoons floating in a Napa Valley irrigation pond, and what do you have? A first-of-its-kind solar power array and the latest example of why Northern California’s wine industry – with its scores of… Read More
Students revved about MSK solar car races (York County Coast Star)
Friday, May 30th, 2008KENNEBUNK — Fans gathered around the race track, cheering on their favorites. Tension rippled through the air as cars reached the finish line. Drivers raised their arms in triumph. Read More
Solar power – seriously souped up
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Make solar cells as small as a molecule, and you get twice as much as you bargained for – could this be the route to limitless free power? [Slashdot] [Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] [Technorati] [Google] [StumbleUpon] Read More
Getting Solar Power from Space?
Thursday, May 29th, 2008If we do this, we can send probes near to the sun and soon we will have a “bridge” of solar-panels in space (which take solar-power from the sun, and transmit them in wave form to solar-panels nearer to Earth) then, we receive the solar … Read More
Big Blue (IBM) Unleashed Solar power
Thursday, May 29th, 2008IBM, a well known/reputed multinational computer technology and consulting corporation recently enter into ‘Solar energy’ segment which isn’t their cup of tea/coffee/what ever! But the results are and will be amazing indeed. … Read More
California Prison to Use Solar Power
Thursday, May 29th, 2008From United Press International: BLYTHE, Calif., May 28 (UPI) — Ironwood State Prison officials in California say they’ve activated a new 1.18 megawatt solar power plant. The ground-mounted, photovoltaic plant that will produce more … Read More
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