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Volcanoes Have Shifted Asian RainfallNew York NY (SPX) Nov 08, 2010 Scientists have long known that large volcanic explosions can affect the weather by spewing particles that block solar energy and cool the air. Some suspect that extended "volcanic winters" from gigantic blowups helped kill off dinosaurs and Neanderthals. In the summer following Indonesia's 1815 Tambora eruption, frost wrecked crops as far off as New England, and the 1991 blowout of the Philippines' Mount Pinatubo lowered average global temperatures by 0.7 degrees F-enough to mask the effects of m ... read more |
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  Transparent Conductive Material Could Lead To Power-Generating Windows Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory have fabricated transparent thin films capable of absorbing light and generating ... more | .. |
  LADWP Moves Forward With Large Solar Array As part of its strategic initiative to expand local solar generation, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) advanced plans Tuesday to build a 5-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic insta ... more | .. |
 Solar Energy System At Caltech Activated Perpetual Energy Systems (Perpetual) has announced the activation of a 1.1 MW solar energy system at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The system, which marks the achievement o ... more | .. |
 Illuminating The "Cathedral Of The Holy Cross" In Turkey Kyocera has announced that it has supplied solar modules that help to illuminate the Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Cross - located on the island of Akdamar, Turkey. This year church services were h ... more |
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 Three Exciting Renewable Energy Projects In Pennsylvania Officials with the Department of Environmental Protection were on hand at the celebrations marking three different clean energy projects - including the largest rooftop solar array in North America ... more | .. |
 30MW Solar Power Plant To Be Built In Colorado SunPower has announced an agreement with Iberdrola Renewables to design and build a 30-megawatt photovoltaic (PV) solar power plant, the San Luis Valley Solar Ranch, on 216 acres of private, former ... more | .. |
 Evergreen Solar Shows Strong Commitment In Czech Republic Evergreen Solar has announced the company has provided solar panels for nine solar power plants in the Czech Republic, further strengthening its presence in Eastern Europe. In total, the company has ... more | .. |
 KYOCERA Solar Modules At Desert Knowledge Australia Alice Springs, Australia, with around 300 days of sunshine every year, is an ideal test location for solar power installations. The Desert Knowledge Australia (DKA) Solar Centre is a government-fund ... more |
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 Alcatel-Lucent To Host Solar Power System For Bell Labs Global HQ In 1954, Bell Labs pioneered the development of solar power technology, creating solar panels able to support the telephone service of American farmers living off the electricity grid. More th ... more | .. |
 Logitech Introduces Solar-Powered Keyboard Logitech has introduced the Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750 - the company's first light-powered keyboard. The Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard powers itself whenever there's light, even indoor ... more | .. |
 National Space Society Announces The Kalam-NSS Energy Initiative The National Space Society will hold a press conference Thursday, November 4 at the National Press Club to reveal one of the first initiatives ever undertaken by a non-profit American organization a ... more | .. |
 Sunny Future For Australia's Solar Industry CSIRO has begun installing 450 large mirrors, called heliostats, for Australia's largest solar-thermal tower system at the CSIRO National Solar Energy Centre in Newcastle, New South Wales. The ... more |
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 Ultra-Reliable SPSU Solar Converter Step-Up Transformer Pacific Crest Transformers announces that it offers the SPSU photovoltaic (PV) solar converter step-up transformer, ideal for connecting solar farms to the electricity grid at large-scale solar powe ... more | .. |
 Spectrolab Produces 3 Millionth Multi-junction Space Solar Cell Boeing reports that its wholly-owned subsidiary Spectrolab has produced its 3 millionth multi-junction, space-based solar cell. Production records indicate that the gallium arsenide cell was deliver ... more | .. |
 Breaking Ground On Ivanpah BrightSource Energy has celebrated the commencement of construction on its Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS). California Governor Schwarzenegger, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar ... more | .. |
 Solar Frontier To Supply 10 MWs Of CIS Modules For Saudi Aramco North Park Project Solar Frontier has announced that it will supply Saudi Aramco with 10 megawatts of its proprietary cadmium- and lead-free thin film CIS solar modules for a car park installation to power the North P ... more |
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 Dupont Performance Polymers Introduces New Materials For Photovoltaics Building on the corporation's experience in material innovation within the renewable energy sector industry, DuPont Performance Polymers has tailored its portfolio of thermoplastic materials and des ... more | .. |
 PV TRACKERS Automatic Wash Cycle Generates Increase In Energy Production PV Trackers has announced: Data proves washing solar panels increases energy production by 8-12%. PV Trackers, the leading supplier of dual-axis trackers in the US, designs power plants focused on d ... more | .. |
 Bringing Solar Energy To Pennsylvania's Broad Top Township Standard Solar has announced plans to bring solar energy to Broad Top Township and Coaldale Borough, Pa. with the development of a 69.2 kilowatt solar energy system. With this installation and other ... more | .. |
 Middle Class Free Electricity Scheme Over It was inevitable. The NSW solar gold rush is over with the NSW Government suspending the current gross feed-in tariff scheme after it was sold out five years earlier than originally planned. ... more |
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 South Africa woos investors for world's biggest solar plant South Africa wooed investors Thursday for what could become the world's largest solar project, built on the edge of the Kalahari Desert to provide an eighth of the country's electricity. ... more | .. |
Solar power too much of a good thing? A boom in solar power in Germany, while good for the environment, could crash the country's aging power grid, experts say. ... more | .. |
Innotech Solar builds new plant in Germany Norway's Innotech Solar on Wednesday launched construction of a $28 million solar cell processing plant in eastern Germany. ... more | .. |
US approves world's biggest solar energy project The United States approved on Monday a permit for the largest solar energy project in the world - four massive plants at the cost of one billion dollars each in southern California. ... more |
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