National Renewable Energy Lab Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:30:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 GE's Double Strike: PrimeStar Solar and a Future Thin Film Solar Plant https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ge-thin-film-solar-plant-20110410/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ge-thin-film-solar-plant-20110410/#respond Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:30:21 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=17876 General Electric (GE), the American conglomerate that has reinvented itself as a green energy giant, has two pieces of news for us: 1) it wants to build a thin-film solar factory in the U.S. and 2) it has bought the PrimeStar Solar Company.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ge-thin-film-solar-plant-20110410/feed/ 0 17876 Vindicator Laser Wind Sensor Increases the Output of Wind Turbines https://www.greenoptimistic.com/vindicator-laser-wind-sensor-increases-the-output-of-wind-turbines-20090818/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/vindicator-laser-wind-sensor-increases-the-output-of-wind-turbines-20090818/#respond Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:14:24 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4302 The Manassas, Virginia-based Catch the Wind has signed an agreement with National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) to test the company's Vindicator laser wind sensor that automatically optimizes wind turbine direction to boost its output.

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