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10 Ways Solar Power Can Benefit Your Farm and Garden

Mila Luleva — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:20:42 +0000

We all love to read how green technology can be used in our day-to-day activities and help us preserve the environment and save all that important money at the same time. Threehugger published a great piece by Derek Markham showing useful ways to use solar-powered devices on your farm or in your garden, and we could […]

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Report Indicates Photovoltaics Better than Biofuels in Converting Solar to Mileage

Mike Sandru — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:25:57 +0000

A recent report indicates that in terms of conversion of solar energy to how much distance one can cover on wheels, photovoltaics come out on top over even the best biofuels. The report, published in the Environmental Science & Technology journal hoped to establish how efficient each of the power sources were by comparing how […]

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Transparent Solar Cells Made Cheap, Efficient and Flexible With Carbon Nanotubes

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:54:37 +0000

A new discovery coming the Northwestern University could make solar cells embeddable in clothes and various fabrics. It involves changing tin, an important element of solar cells, with carbon nanotubes, considered more flexible and efficient. For a solar cell to be transparent and still function, it has to have several layers, of which a transparent […]

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Solyndra Installing The Largest Solar Panel System in France

Mike Sandru — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:36:42 +0000

The Californian branch of Solyndra, based in Fremont, has recently finished the latest solar panels installation on a warehouse rooftop near Toulouse, France. The largest system of Solyndra in France consists of more than 7,080 in-house made panels, and will generate around 1,360 MWh a year.

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New Cheap Plastic Stick-On Solar Cells Could Power Future Electric Cars

Mike Sandru — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:40:51 +0000

Scientists at the University of Queensland have designed stick-on solar cells made from low-cost plastics, being cheaper than the silicon panels fixed to rooftops.

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Gain Up to 30% More Solar Power With Automatic Cleaning System

Cristi — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:12:27 +0000

Heliotex has released the first pending patent of automatic cleaning systems for business and home solar panels. Heliotex Automatic Solar Panel Cleaning Systems automatically washes and rinses the solar panels as often as you find necessary. The system helps you to maximize your investment by allowing your solar panels to achieve their full potential (dirty solar panels lose up to 30% efficiency).

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Nanosolar’s Flexible Solar Panels – a GigaWatt Promise Kept

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:59:58 +0000

Remember Nanosolar? I wrote on article on them a few months ago, telling that they invented a light sensitive thin layer, that could be imprinted on various flexible surfaces and then used as solar batteries. They kept their word to it.

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