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Mars Exploration Rover Spirit Laid To RestPasadena CA (JPL) May 25, 2011 NASA will cease any further attempts to make contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated with Earth on March 22, 2010. A transmission that will end on Wednesday, May 25, will be the last in a series of attempts. Extensive communications activities during the past 10 months also have explored the possibility that Spirit might reawaken as the solar energy available to it increased after a stressful Martian winter without much sunlight. With inadequate ene ... read more |
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  Students Develop Cheaper, Greener, Alternative Energy Storage Every year, the world consumes 15 Terrawatts of power. Since the amount of annual harvestable solar energy has been estimated at 50 Terrawatts, students at Stevens Institute of Technology are workin ... more | .. |
  Emerson To Provide Power Technology For One Of The Largest Solar Energy Projects In US Emerson has been awarded a contract to supply power technology for one of the largest solar energy projects in the United States. Under an agreement with Wind Turbine and Energy Cables (WTEC) Emerso ... more | .. |
 Centrosolar and Zep Solar sign license agreement The Hamburg-based Centrosolar AG has signed a license agreement with Zep Solar. Zep Solar provides mounting solutions for installing photovoltaic systems, enabling modules with a specialized Zep Gro ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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 New 5MW Multi-Technology Solar Installation Arizona Western College (AWC), Main Street Power Company, developer PPA Partners, local utility Arizona Public Service (APS), and EPC Rosendin Electric have broken ground on a five-megawatt solar pr ... more | .. |
 MAG expands solar systems business MAG is expanding its solar panel manufacturing systems business with the establishment of U.S.-based operations to build and distribute crystalline silicon (c-Si) module production lines with capaci ... more | .. |
 RSI Silicon Products Invents Way to Use Sugar to Manufacture Silicon At RSI Silicon Products the process of making silicon for solar panels is all sweetness and light. Literally. "Our process uses sugar cane or sugar beets," Inventor Steve Amendola said of RSI's newl ... more | .. |
 Record efficiency for flexible CIGS solar cells on plastics It's all about the money. To make solar electricity affordable on a large scale, scientists and engineers worldwide have long been trying to develop a low-cost solar cell, which is both highly effic ... more |
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 Japan 'plans solar panels for all new buildings' Japan is considering a plan that would make it compulsory for all new buildings and houses to come fitted with solar panels by 2030, a business daily said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Power-One Launches New-Look 2.0kW Single Phase Inverter Power-One has announced the launch of its redesigned AURORA UNO-2.0 single phase string inverter. The new-look 2.0kW inverter is Power-One's smallest residential inverter and is an excellent choice ... more | .. |
 Power-One Introduces New Three-Phase String Inverters for Commercial Solar Market Power-One has announced the introduction of its new three-phase string inverters, the AURORA TRIO-27.6-TL and the AURORA TRIO-20.0-TL. With an output of 27.6kW and 20.0kW, respectively, the new-look ... more | .. |
 California Green Designs completes largest commercial solar installation in LA California Green Designs has completed the largest commercial solar installation in Los Angeles at Konoike-Pacific (KPAC), a cold-storage warehouse in Wilmington. The installation, located on ... more |
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 Energy Focus and Entech Solar Announce Commercial Skylighting Marketing and Distribution Agreement Energy Focus and Entech Solar have announced a broad commercial skylighting marketing agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Energy Focus may provide engineering support and resell Entech's pa ... more | .. |
 OPEL Solar Named 'Exclusive' Supplier by Grape Solar OPEL Solar International has announced that Grape Solar has selected OPEL Solar as its exclusive, worldwide supplier of solar trackers for its solar projects. This is OPEL's first exclusive supply a ... more | .. |
 Power Partners Solar's Collectors Generate Hot Water Power Partners Solar has announced that solar water heating collectors it manufactured have been installed at the John C. Campbell Folk School's first Energy Star Green Building - a new guest house ... more | .. |
 Emerson To Provide Power Technology For One Of The Largest Solar Energy Projects In US Emerson has been awarded a contract to supply power technology for one of the largest solar energy projects in the United States. Under an agreement with Wind Turbine and Energy Cables (WTEC) Emerso ... more |
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Space tourism's growth blurs the line between scientific and symbolic achievement
The space race is being reshaped by geopolitics, offering opportunities for countries such as New Zealand
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 Lowe's Selects Sungevity For Residential Solar Partnership Lowe's and Sungevity have announced a new agreement that will offer homeowners the easiest and most affordable solar solutions in the marketplace, marking a significant step in the mainstream adopti ... more | .. |
  Exposing ZnO nanorods to visible light removes microbes The practical use of visible light and zinc oxide nanorods for destroying bacterial water contamination has been successfully demonstrated by researchers at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). ... more | .. |
 New Barometer published: photovoltaic barometer For the first time, Europe's photovoltaic sector installed more new capacity than any other renewable electricity source over the year. EurObserv'ER estimates that 13023.2 MWp of photovoltaic module ... more | .. |
 New solar product captures up to 95 percent of light energy Efficiency is a problem with today's solar panels; they only collect about 20 percent of available light. Now, a University of Missouri engineer has developed a flexible solar sheet that captures mo ... more |
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 Solar cells more efficient than photosynthesis - for now In a head-to-head battle of harvesting the sun's energy, solar cells beat plants, according to a new paper in Science. But scientists think they can even up the playing field, says researcher David ... more | .. |
 Photosynthesis or photovoltaics: Weighing the impact Which is more efficient at harvesting the sun's energy, plants or solar cells? This salient question and an answer are the subject of an article published in the May issue of the journal Science. ... more | .. |
 In Less than 100 Days Discount Barry Trashes Reputation and Commercial Law The NSW Premier has decided that commercial contracts in NSW are not worth the paper they are written on and has moved to retrospectively legislate to change existing Solar/Wind gross feed in tariff ... more |
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Denmark in 'frank' talks with China over backing Russia; Germany says China has 'a responsibility for global peace'
UK FM says EU defence pact will 'complement' NATO
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 House GOP looking at alternative energy After spending weeks focused on oil and nature gas, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are turning some of their attention to alternative energy projects. ... more | .. |
 New technique improves artificial photosynthesis This discovery will make it possible to improve photoelectrochemical cells. In the same way that plants use photosynthesis to transform sunlight into energy, these cells use sunlight to drive chemic ... more | .. |
 Pairing Quantum Dots with Fullerenes for Nanoscale Photovoltaics In a step toward engineering ever-smaller electronic devices, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have assembled nanoscale pairings of particles that s ... more | .. |
 Clear Skies Sign 162KW Contract Clear Skies Solar has announced it has signed a contract with a New Jersey car dealership and the approved funding will be using our Power Purchase Agreement program, or PPA. The PPA allows a ... more |
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 SunPower to Build Solar Power Systems for Rancho California Water District Rancho California Water District (RCWD) and SunPower have announced that SunPower will design and construct solar power systems totaling 1.7 megawatts at two RCWD facilities. The systems are expecte ... more | .. |
 American Vision Brings New 'Light' to Solar Energy Environmentally-aware homeowners looking to live a bit 'greener' - while significantly saving some 'green' ($) on monthly utility bills - can turn to the experts in solar panel installation, America ... more | .. |
 Clean Energy Pathways Develops Unique Roof Mount for Solar Energy Retrofit Clean Energy Pathways has completed a large solar retrofit and energy efficiency project at the IMAX Fitness Center in Columbus, Georgia, utilizing a unique mounting process. The retrofit consisted ... more | .. |
 Wilmington Friends School to use new campus solar power system Wilmington Friends School has announced that it will install more than 700 solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on the rooftops of two campus buildings this summer, resulting in one of the largest of sola ... more |
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