cheap solar energy Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:17:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Roger Angel: The Astronomer Who Will Probably Change Solar Power as We Know It https://www.greenoptimistic.com/roger-angel-cheap-solar-power-20120321/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/roger-angel-cheap-solar-power-20120321/#respond Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:17:22 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=23589 The challenge with solar energy is to figure out how to make it cheap and so everybody in the industry takes his shot. It’s also the case with astronomer Roger Angel, who put the basis of REhnu Company and is now asserting that the big new solar collector he plans to build will bring down […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/roger-angel-cheap-solar-power-20120321/feed/ 0 23589 Sun-Believable: Solar Cell Paint Developed by University of Notre Dame Researchers https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sun-believable-solar-cell-paint-20111228/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sun-believable-solar-cell-paint-20111228/#respond Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:34:59 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=21686 You think you’ve seen it all, but you haven’t – at least regarding solar energy production! Nowadays, you can produce your own heat by just painting your house with the right kind of paint! An innovative paint of this kind would do a lot more than just free up space on your roof by displacing […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sun-believable-solar-cell-paint-20111228/feed/ 0 21686 Daniel Nocera's Sun Catalytix Receives $7.1 Million for Developing Photosynthesis System https://www.greenoptimistic.com/daniel-noceras-sun-catalytix-receives-7-1-million-for-developing-photosynthesis-system-20091124/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/daniel-noceras-sun-catalytix-receives-7-1-million-for-developing-photosynthesis-system-20091124/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:47:27 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5470 Daniel G. Nocera of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the inventor of the most important solar energy system of the century. His 2007 designed system is able to create cheap solar energy based on the photosynthesis process.

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