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Skipper unveils world's biggest solar-powered boatKiel, Germany (AFP) Feb 25, 2010 A skipper hoping to become the first to sail round the world using solar power said his catamaran could carve a wake for pollution-free shipping as he unveiled the record-breaking yacht Thursday. "This is a unique feeling to see in front of me today a boat which I so often dreamed about," said Raphael Domjan as the covers came off the 18 million euro (24 million dollar) boat, the world's biggest solar-powered vessel. PlanetSolar, a 31- by 15-metre (100 by 50 foot) white catamaran, has been desig ... read more |
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Woodland Hills CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2010Perpetual Energy Systems (PES) and the Diocese of San Jose (Diocese), in conjunction with MBL-Energy (MBL) and Photon Energy Services (Photon), announce the activation of six distributed solar energy installations, consisting of an aggregate nameplate capacity of 886 kW DC. The systems are projected to generate an estimated 1.4 million kilowatt hours of clean energy in its first full year ... more 
Trubbach, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 18, 2010Oerlikon Solar has announced that Gadir Solar is using its amorphous thin film silicon PV technology at the solar fabrication plant located in the bay of Cadiz, Spain. Gadir Solar's plant, one of the largest in Europe, began operation in October 2009. The company is ramping up in record time its annual production capacity of 40 MW, which is capable of producing about half a million PV pane ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2010Using arrays of long, thin silicon wires embedded in a polymer substrate, a team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created a new type of flexible solar cell that enhances the absorption of sunlight and efficiently converts its photons into electrons. The solar cell does all this using only a fraction of the expensive semiconductor materials required by conve ... more |
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Rethinking Renewable Energy StrategiesLondon UK (SPX) Feb 16, 2010 Researchers at Queen's University suggest that policy makers examine greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions implications for energy infrastructure as fossil fuel sources must be rapidly replaced by windmills, solar panels and other sources of renewable energy. Their recommendations could be used to help policy makers restructure renewable energy production in a way that will optimize greenhouse gas emission reductions. "The energy industry is expanding so rapidly that the dynamic nature of greenhous ... read more |
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