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Did a global ocean save Earth from the coldStanford CA (SPX) Apr 13, 2010 Four billion years ago, our then stripling Sun radiated only 70 to 75 percent as much energy as it does today. Other things on Earth being equal, with so little energy reaching the planet's surface, all water on the planet should been have frozen. But ancient rocks hold ample evidence that the early Earth was awash in liquid water - a planetary ocean of it. So something must have compensated for the reduced solar output and kept Earth's water wet. To explain this apparent paradox, a popular theory ... read more |
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Rabat, Morocco (UPI) Mar 24, 2009 North Africa is taking a shine to solar power in a big way, with plants slated for Morocco and Tunisia as a German-led consortium pushes ahead with the world's most ambitious solar project in the Sahara Desert. The $555.3 billion Desertec project is designed to turn the Sahara's endless sunlight into carbon-free electricity that will supply 15 percent of energy-hungry Europe's power and ... more 
Las Vegas (UPI) Mar 23, 2009 "Environmentally friendly" solar power plants planned for Nevada and around the U.S. Southwest may in fact devastate the local ecology, opponents say. The problem, environmentalists say, is that tens of thousands of acres of untouched desert will have to be bulldozed for utility-scale solar plants, threatening rare and endangered plants and animals, the Las Vegas Sun reported Tuesday. / ... more 
Berlin (UPI) Mar 22, 2009 U.S. solar power firm First Solar and several other companies recently joined the Desertec project, which is aimed at powering Europe's homes with green electricity from North Africa. Italian utility Enel, Spanish grid operator Red Electrica, French building materials maker Saint Gobain and Moroccan energy holding Nareva joined the Desertec project, the initiative said Monday. Th ... more |
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Chevron Tests Emerging Solar Technologies In Central CaliforniaBakersfield CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2010 Chevron has started Project Brightfield, a demonstration of next-generation solar energy technologies in Bakersfield, California. The project, created on the site of a former Chevron refinery, will evaluate seven emerging photovoltaic technologies to help determine the potential application of renewable power at other company-owned facilities. The former refinery site has been repurposed to test the performance of six emerging thin-film technologies and one emerging crystalline-silicon photovoltai ... read more |
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