1 Inhabitat's Week in Green: solar robots that fly, CO2 fabric dye, and the dark silicon that boosts battery life
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. Solar power blazed a trail this week as we took a look at several hot new technologies, starting with SkyFuel's SkyTrough , which is being billed as the world's most efficient solar collector. We also saw solar energy take to the skies as designers ... Source: Engadget
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2 Solar power land idle
ROACH DRY LAKE, Nev. — Not a light bulb’s worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar farms has even broken ground. Instead, five years after federal land managers opened up stretches of the Southwest to developers, vast tracts still sit idle. Source: Times Leader
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3 Imec reports large-area silicon solar cells with efficiencies up to 19.4%
At the 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Valencia, Spain), imec unveiled several large-area silicon solar cells with a conversion efficiency above 19%. Two types of cells were realized namely with Ag-screen-printed contacts and plated Cu-contacts. Source: EETimes.de
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4 Solar power's time to shine in Florida?
Jacque Wirth was a local pioneer in getting consumers interested in harnessing the sun for electricity. It was more than three decades ago that she opened Solar Energy Systems of Brevard. Source: Florida Today
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5 Imec reports large-area silicon solar cells with high efficiency
At the 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Valencia, Spain), Imec presents several large-area silicon solar cells with a conversion efficiency above 19%. Source: PhysOrg
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6 USIBC Convenes Solar Power Task Force
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) announced the launch of a major new initiative to promote U.S.-India trade and investment in the burgeoning solar power sector. Comprised of private-sector companies, the USIBC Solar Power Task Force will help to bridge the United States’ aspirations to export leading technologies, while furthering India’s goal of ... Source: Business Wire
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7 Branchburg-based firm Noveda Technologies wins solar energy contract with PSE&G
BRANCHBURG — Noveda Technologies Inc., a Branchburg firm specializing in energy-monitoring technology, has won a contract with Public Service Electric & Gas to help the utility track the performance of its solar energy systems. Source: MyCentralJersey.com
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8 BLM land set aside for solar power generating nothing so far
Not a light bulb's worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar farms has even broken ground. Source: Denver Post
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9 Feds let prime solar-energy sites lie idle
Not a light bulb's worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Source: The News Journal
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10 Hawthorne solar plan puts sun to work
The roof of the Hawthorne Memorial Center is now covered in more than 1,000 solar panels that reflect images of the nearby date palm trees. Source: Daily Breeze
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