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.
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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…
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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.
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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]
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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