Archive for March, 2008
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008Southern California Edison announced on Thursday that it would build a network of 250 megawatts of photovoltaic solar cells, making it the largest solar cell project in the US.
SCE said that the project was possible because recent advances in solar cell technology had halved the cost of solar generation in California. Their plan, [...]
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Aquygen interview with COO of Hydrogen Technology Applications
Friday, March 28th, 2008At a blog called HHO Gas: enabling a car to run on water, there’s a short first installment of an interview with Russ Scott, the COO of Hydrogen Technology Applications, Inc, the company behind Aquygen (HHO). The first installment just covers the reason for the lack of news out of the company. [...]
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If you live in San Francisco and are interested in solar power, you might want to check this out
Thursday, March 27th, 2008SFSolarsubsidy.com has lots of information to help promote San Francisco’s solar power incentive program. Rebates of up to $5,000 are available for residential installations, and up to $10,000 for businesses. So if you live in San Francisco and are interested in getting a solar power setup, check out the available information.
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Spain breaks wind power record
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Sometime last weekend, wind power in Spain accounted for just over 40% of all electricity consumed in that country. Saturday night was very windy, and Spain’s wind parks generated 9,852 megawatts of electricity which equaled 40.8 percent of total consumption. While it was a low demand period due to the Easter holiday, for [...]
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CIGS thin film solar cell hits 19.9% efficiency - a record
Monday, March 24th, 2008Researchers at the US Dept of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) have developed a thin-film CIGS solar cell that competes with the efficiency of silicon photovoltaic solar cells.
Their new copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) cell hit 19.9% efficiency, which is a world’s record for this type of solar cell. Most thin-film cells [...]
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GreenFuel Technologies to build algae to fuel plant in Europe
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008According to Xconomy, GreenFuel Technologies, the company that has developed a bioreactor that grows algae using the CO2 emissions from power plants, will build an algae-to-fuel plant in Europe. Greenfuel’s bioreactor system takes the algae grown and then uses it to create clean-burning biofuel.
Greenfuel has had some problems with its last generation algae greenhouse [...]
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Bucks County, PA to be new home for largest east coast solar power facility
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Ground was broken today on the new Exelon-Epuron Solar Energy Center, located in Falls Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The plant will consist of 17,000 solar panels on 16.5 acres of land that belongs to Waste Management. When completed around September or October of this year, the plant will be the [...]
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What’s the impact of plug-in hybrids on the power grid? It depends.
Monday, March 17th, 2008It depends on when people are going to recharge their cars, basically. Â Â A new study from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) says that a move to plug-ins could require a bunch of new power generation resources or maybe none at all - everything depends on when most people are going to recharge their cars.
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The Volvo ReCharge - the next stage in hybrids?
Thursday, March 13th, 2008Volvo’s been showing off their ReCharge plug in hybrid concept at the recent Frankfurt Motor show. The ReCharge is a plug in hybrid with individual electric wheel motors and batteries that can be recharged via a standard household electrical socket. The ReCharge will do about 60 miles on battery power alone before the four [...]
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Exxon to help power new hybrid cars
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Every article I’ve seen on this makes sure to point out the irony, but I guess people can’t help themselves. Exxon Mobil Corp, the big oil company and the world’s largest gasoline refiner, is helping to develop a key component of lithium-ion batteries that can be used in hybrid cars. [...]
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