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Dow Corning Demonstrates Process to Increase Solar Panel Production Rates

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:19:34 -0000

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Dow Corning Corp. announced that it has demonstrated a manufacturing process that features new developmental silicone materials that could significantly increase the production rate of solar panels, effectively lowering the cost per watt of solar power

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Howstuffworks "Will the landline phone become obsolete?"

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:03:16 -0000

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Will the landline phone become obsolete?

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Research@Intel · Wireless Power & "Sensitive" Robots: videos from IDF

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:41:21 -0000

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Cutting last cord - power:

Imagine having the ability to walk into an airport or room with your laptop and instead of consuming battery, it is recharged. Based on principles proposed by MIT physicists, Intel researchers have been working on a Wireless Resonant Energy Link (WREL). Rattner demonstrated powering a 60-watt light bulb without the use of a plug or wire of any kind, which is more than is needed for a typical laptop.

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Mechanical Engineers Create High-tech Solar Panels

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:04:30 -0000

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Efforts are continuously on to make solar panels more efficient so that in future sunlight can be used as an alternative to fossil fuels. Researchers are putting tremendous effort to minimize the inadequacies of current solar panels. Both, Michael Jensen, Ph.D., a mechanical engineer and Anna Dyson, an architectural scientist from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, along with their team are trying to make solar systems in terms of power and heat nearly eighty percent efficient.

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The Santiago Times - English Language Newspaper in Santiago, Chile - News in Chile and Latin America

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:45:23 -0000

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Homeowners in Chile apparently want more living space, as experts predict the average size of private homes to increase from 72 square meters (m2) to 85m2 over the next 20 years, reported Chilean daily La Tercrea on Tuesday.

During the last two decades, Chilean homes have increased 9m2 on average and economists predict that this development will continue.

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NABCEP : North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:31:40 -0000

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Inspector Guidelines for PV Systems

This work, Inspector Guidelines for PV Systems (v. 2.1, March 2006) is part of the Renewable Energy Technology Analysis Project of the Pace Law School Energy Project and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, was prepared by Endecon Engineering. These guidelines provide a framework for the permitting and inspection of safe PV systems at a minimum of cost and effort for the inspector and the installer. The guidelines were written from the viewpoint that all PV systems installed for residential or commercial use should fundamentally include proper documentation, proper structural attachments, and proper wiring methods. These guidelines were developed using the practical experience of many quality installers and inspectors throughout California and the rest of the nation.

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juwi To Build 45-MW Wind Farm in Costa Rica

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:25:30 -0000

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The juwi group and its European and American project partners have launched construction work on what will be one of the biggest wind farms in Central America. Upon completion, the project known as Proyecto Eolico Guanacaste (PEG) in Costa Rica will comprise 55 wind energy turbines with a total production capacity of 49.5 megawatts (MW).

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Enel Acquires 1-GW of Wind Rights

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:23:23 -0000

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Milan, Italy [RenewableEnergyWorld.com]

Brazilian subsidiaries of Italy's Enel and SoWiTec have signed a cooperation agreement to develop eight wind power projects in the northeastern area of the country with 1 gigawatt (GW) of combined capacity.

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ENN: Small Hydroelectric Dams Not So Green

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:17:25 -0000

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The combined impacts of numerous small hydroelectric dams in one river basin can be at least as harmful as one large dam, warn experts, environmental activists and indigenous groups, who face a flood of new projects along the rivers of the western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.

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Energias Alternativas e Renováveis: Aprovada proposta que fixa em 10% participação de fontes renováveis na matriz energética até 2018

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:04:10 -0000

The Special Comission of Brazilian Senate aproved the proposal to increase the renewable energies for 10% until 2013.

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A Comissão de Serviços de Infra-Estrutura (CI) aprovou nesta quarta-feira (13), em decisão terminativa, proposta para estabelecer que, até 2018, dez por cento do consumo anual de energia no país deverão ser proveniente de fontes renováveis, como as de matriz solar, eólica e biomassa.

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ENN: Solar Collector Could Change Asphalt Roads Into Renewable Energy Source

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:59:35 -0000

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Solar Collector Could Change Asphalt Roads Into Renewable Energy Source

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Solar Collector Could Change Asphalt Roads Into Renewable Energy Source

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:57:42 -0000

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Solar Collector Could Change Asphalt Roads Into Renewable Energy Source

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:36:00

Researchers are developing a solar collector that could turn roads and parking lots into ubiquitous--and inexpensive--sources of electricity and hot water. (Credit: iStockphoto/Forest Woodward)

Anyone who has walked barefoot across a parking lot on a hot summer day knows that blacktop is exceptionally good at soaking up the sun’s warmth.

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Mexico - Sustainable Rural Development Project, Vol. 1 of 1

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:22:12 -0000

Mexico -
Sustainable Rural Development Project

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ANEEL - Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:12:51 -0000

Aneel’s College Board of Directors has authorized Copel (Paraná
Electric Energy Company) to implement the pilot-project which determines the
selling of exceeding energy, derived from animal waste, produced in small rural
proprieties in Paraná. The project, named Distributed Generation with
Environmental Sanitation Project, will allow the elimination of organic matter
resulting from the hog creation, which will stop being released over rivers and
deposits such as Itaipu’s. Such residue will be transformed, via biodigesters,
in biogas, a fuel used in the generation of electric energy.

Tags: renewables waste Brazil

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¿Cuál prefiere? - Por qué América Latina podría convertirse en líder mundial en eficiencia energética « Adsenergia’s Weblog

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:00:12 -0000

Imagine qué ocurriría si la ciencia descubriera una nueva fuente de energía
capaz de satisfacer el 20 por ciento de la demanda global de electricidad a un
costo prácticamente nulo y sin impacto medioambiental alguno.

Tags: energy efficiency Latin America

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Verisign Customer Parking Page - Not Found - Security (SSL Certificates), Communications, Information Services, Network Security

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:25:13 -0000

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ENN: U.S. Utilities Advance Solar Projects

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:04:34 -0000

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Several major U.S. utility companies may accelerate plans to integrate solar power into their electricity mix following a fact-finding trip to Germany.

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ENN: Gore: Make all U.S. electricity from renewable sources

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:03:00 -0000

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Al Gore, the Nobel Prize-winning crusader on climate change, challenged the United States on Thursday to commit to producing all U.S. electricity from renewable sources like solar and wind power in 10 years.

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ENN: Spain to Put 1 million Electric Cars on the Road

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:01:30 -0000

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Spain intends aims to put 1 million electric cars on the road by 2014 as part of the Zapatero government’s plan to save energy and boost energy efficiency, minister of industry, business and tourism Miguel Sebastian said Tuesday.

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Google Reader

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:58:09 -0000

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Até agora, a maior iniciativa do governo federal, pensando na diversificação da matriz energética nacional e na segurança do abastecimento, foi o Programa de Incentivo às Fontes Alternativas de Energia Elétrica (Proinfa). Iniciado em 2002, com conclusão prevista para dezembro deste ano, o Proinfa previa a contratação de 3.300 MW, a partir de três fontes renováveis: eólica, Pequenas Centrais Hidrelétricas (PCHs) e biomassa

Tokyo, March 19, 2008 - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (President and CEO: Setsuhiro Shimomura) announced today its achievement of a world record1 photoelectric conversion efficiency rate2 of 18.6 percent3 in a 150-millimeter square practical use multi-crystalline silicon solar cell, an improvement of 0.6 percent over the company's previous record4.

Tags: photovoltaic technology renewables

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