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Solar Turbines
2,400-Foot-Tall Solar Updraft Turbines To Power ArizonaToday's solar power plants work either through photovoltaics or heated steam. If Enviromission gets its way, tomorrow's plants will combine wind...
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Thieves Use Google Earth to Steal Solar Panels
Solar panel thefts heating up in Napa Valley wine countryHot on the heels of news about Google's new energy venture comes this sorrowful tale about renewable energy. NPR reports on enterprising thieves...
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Spray-On Solar Cells
New Energy Technologies has developed transparent solar cells which can be sprayed onto any glass surfaceCurrent solar cells are largely made of silicon wafers, an expensive and brittle material. And...
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Largest Solar-Powered Yacht
PlanetSolar Debuts The World's Largest Solar-Powered YachtA skipper's dream of sailing across the ocean using solar power is about to come true. More impressively, he'll be sailing on arguably the...
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IBM Develops High-Efficiency Solar Cells
IBM Develops Higher-Efficiency Solar Cells Using Non-Rare MaterialsIBM researchers have created a high-efficiency solar cell that is 40 percent more efficient than any similar cells, and is made of...
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Solar Cell Robots
New Robots Build Prototype Solar Cells in 30 Minutes, Then Evaluate Their Own WorkOne multitasking robot can build semiconductors for solar cells on six-inch-square plates of glass, plastic or flexible...
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Transparent Solar Panels
Sphelar solar cells from Kyosemi Corp. are solidified silicon drops that create a transparent solar cell windowImagine if instead of looking out your window to see your solar-panel array, your windows...
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Solar Robot Pumps Sunlight Indoors
A powerful sunlight transport system that’s like putting a solar robot on your roof to pump sunlight indoors What if you could light your entire building using no electricity, or artificial lights –...
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Solar Plane Makes Successful Test Flight
Solar Impulse plane has a wingspan the size of a Boeing 747A solar-powered plane with a 200-foot wingspan completed its first test flight this morning, soaring to 5,500 feet in an 87-minute sortie that...
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Solar-Powered Desalination Plant
IBM's solar-powered desalination plant to hydrate the Saudi desert for a city with 100,000 peopleA new, energy-efficient desalination plant with an expected production capacity of 30,000 cubic meters...
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