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• SOL-ARCH²: Plus Energy House generates more energy than it devours

  
  The Design blog — Authority: 614
  Located in Bern, Switzerland, the “SOL-ARCH²” is a self-sufficient or what they call plus energy house that generates more energy than it consumes, while offering greater comfort and a better quality of living than an average house. The sustainable house produces energy via photovoltaic, photothermal and various ...
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• NANOPHOTO – Nanocrystalline Si Films for Low Cost Photovoltaics

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 147
  High bulk silicon material costs and environmental risks associated with tellurides and selenides might be the final obstacles to the full development of photovoltaics in the years to come.The use of thin nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si) films would provide an answer to this problem, if their full potentialities in ...
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• Germans predict solar energy market expansion

  
  EnergyRefuge.com Blog — Authority: 415
  Carsten Körnig, BSW-Solars managing director The German solar industry interest group BSW-Solar predicts that “demand for solar power systems will grow this year in Germany and in several important foreign markets, despite the financial and economic crisis”. The organization’s latest business climate index ...
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• Catching rays + cutting emissions

  
  Environment — Authority: 558
  The phrase “catching a few rays” might conjure up images of lying on a sunny beach. But Germany’s Renewable Energy Act has given that phrase a whole new meaning. I’ve discovered that you can get paid for capturing the sun’s energy on your roof, converting it into CO2-free electricity with the help of ...
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• Catching rays + cutting emissions

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  Cutting greenhouse gas emissions with photovoltaic systems has become something of an obsession for Reuters journalist Erik Kirschbaum.
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• Sanyo Develops Flexible Solar Cell That’s Thinner Than Human Hair

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 432
  After announcing the company’s plan to become Japans largest solar manufacturer and one of the top players in the domestic solar industry, Sanyo claimed that it has developed a new type of flexible solar cell that is thinner than a human hair.
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• Qualification Profiles Of The Photovoltaic Industry Workforce

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 147
  The qualification profiles of the people involved in the Solar Energy industry will differ depending on their areas of activity within the PV sector value chain. The workforce needed to satisfy this future demand for highly qualified personnel will partly consist of persons explicitly specialised in photovoltaics, ...
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• Battery breakthroughs II

  
  Raising Islands--Hawai'i science and environment — Authority: 110
  Weve gotten a bit of feedback from readers of our previous battery storage story, arguing that, gosh, there really are big breakthrough battery technologies out there. (Image: A solar cell at RaisingIslands testing laboratory—still looking for the right battery.) And other feedback suggesting that startups ...
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• Modern Wall House Design by Adams Mohler Ghillino

  
  Home and House Design — Authority: 129
  Located in Seattle, Washington, architect Adams Mohler Ghillino have completed the a two storey house modern home design to accomodate the needs of the owners’ growing family. Back then, the house was a single storey which then demolished by a hand deconstruction so that the majority of materials removed can be ...
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• Greentech VC Nancy Floyd: U.S. cleantech firms must go global to thrive

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 791
  Filed under: Technology , Green Nancy Floyd was early to the greentech investing game. A prominent venture capitalist, she founded and remains the managing director of Nth Power , an early-stage venture capital fund based in San Francisco. Nth Power, a $180 million fund, has seen a number of successful exits, ...
  2 weeks ago

• aleo solar AG Plans For Secondary Photovoltaic Facilities

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 147
  aleo solar AG has recently announced that it is enjoying particularly high levels of follow-on orders. The trend is seen in private solar rooftop installations, agricultural and industry facilities as well as greenfield sites: most follow-on projects and expansions are again using aleo solar modules. Many satisfied ...
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• highSol – Automated Manufacturing of Thin-Film PV Products Demo Project

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 147
  High-volume manufacturing of photovoltaic productshighSol demo project aims to transform innovative manufacturing concepts on a laboratory scale into the full industrial scale, in order to demonstrate technologies that will enable the mass manufacturing of photovoltaic products with a significant reduction in ...
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• Solar Panels – Energy Positive or Not?

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 147
  Many Solar Energy opponents say “The energy balance is negative: Manufacturing a PV system consumes more energy than it ever produces in its life time.”The fact is: Photovoltaic (PV) systems, like every other product, do need energy for manufacturing. But PV systems pay back this energy input within 1 to 3 years, ...
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• New photovoltaic system is “foldable, concealed and mobile”

  
  EnergyRefuge.com Blog — Authority: 415
  Source: Gatech.edu It won’t replace silicon PV cells any time soon but it could expand the possibilities of producing solar energy. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new type of three-dimensional photovoltaic system which could allow PV systems to be hidden from view and located ...
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• Competitiveness of Photovoltaic Energy

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 147
  Some people state that “The costs of PV will never reach competitiveness.”The fact isPhotovoltaic (PV) solar energy is a technology driven Industry. Proven over more than two decades, the price experience curve allowed for continuously falling costs and will do so in future. On the other hand and, for various ...
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• Residential solar power

  
  Centre Flow — Authority: 138
  Solar power is difficult to do on a large, nation-wide scale.  Doesn’t that make it a perfect thing to do in your own home?Simple Solar Heating Ltd. thinks so. Based in Okotoks, Alberta, this company makes use of solar thermal technology, which traps heat and uses photovoltaic technology to convert it to ...
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• Are there any other types of solar other than photovoltaic?

  
  Ingenero - Solar Hot Water and Solar Power Info — Authority: 114
  The most common type of solar, and the one you are most likely to see on roofs around your suburb, is photovoltaic, or solar PV. But solar PV is not the only type of system that can be used to transfer the sun’s energy into electricity. There are several types of power generation methods being researched and ...
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• Solar power growth

  
  Centre Flow — Authority: 138
  When it comes to solar power, Canada has some splainin’ to do.According to the Worldwatch Institute, 2008 saw the greatest growth ever in the solar power market, but Canada is lagging.96 per cent of the world’s solar power is generated in Europe, the U.S., Japan, and South Korea.  Canada fits into the “rest of ...
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• Food scraps become electricity and new solar cell coating technology

  
  EnergyRefuge.com Blog — Authority: 415
  To kick off the week, I’d like to point you to a couple of stories that have called our attention this Monday. The first is about an initiative carried out by the East Bay Municipal Utility District, which provides water and wastewater treatment in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area. The company is “turning food ...
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• Build A Solar Power System – Benefits Of DIY Solar Power System

  
  Homeschool Facts — Authority: 154
  It is hard to manage the daily expenses with the rising inflation. We run almost everything on electricity that is why it is wise to cut down electricity expenses to the minimum. If there could be a...
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