solar power

Converting the sun's rays into usable energy is an integral step in decreasing our dependency on fossil fuels and lowering our greenhouse gas emissions. While solar panels have been used in buildings since the 50's, we're just starting to reach the tipping point for their widespread adoption. 

With subsidies that lower the costs of installations and feed-in-tariffs that pay for the electricity solar energy produces, going solar is more than an environmental decision; it makes sense economically.

The technology is actually simple, but everything surrounding it — not so much. It's going to be up to innovative entrepreneurs and policy makers to make solar power more economical, the grid smarter, homeowners and businesses more receptive, and coding and permits more uniform so that all the pieces fit nicely together.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “solar power”

• £650,000 Barcombe village hall to be a beacon of sustainability

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 444
  Satellite Architects , the London-based architectural firm hopes to make the best use of the green field site in erecting a sustainable village hall in Barcombe, East Sussex. The £650,000 village hall, once it’s complete, will replace the existing village hall with some incorporated eco-friendly practices. The ...
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• Various Sash Window Restorations Presented to UK Property Owners

  
  Go Solar Power For Homes — Authority: 447
  Sash Windows If your older UK dwelling is surrounded by sash windows, it’s likely they could do with some mending right now. You can find an assortment sash window repairs existing for wood sash windows, including the ones in notable or listed buildings. For instance, single panes may be refurbished with double ...
  3 hours ago

• Solar water heating systems Installation Operation Maintenance

  
  Free ebook manual download - PDFee.com — Authority: 448
  … HX B/U CLI U12 SK0(W/L) 319 HX B/U Solar with back-up heat exchanger CLI … This manual is intended to familiarize you with the proper installation and maintenance of your VELUX solar … Solar water heating systems Installation • Operation • Maintenance The solar energy system described in this manual, when ...
  8 hours ago

• Sanyo develops solar cell that’s thinner than hair

  
  grinding.be — Authority: 496
  Thinner than hair, but won’t be availible until 2020 : Sanyo is in the news today, and again it’s about the company’s green tech power. The company today announced [JP] it will do everything to become Japan’s top player in the domestic solar industry by 2012 and eventually one of the top three solar ...
  9 hours ago

• Info on solar power for someone with little knowledge?

  
  Solar Power Explained — Authority: 118
  niccas9 asked: I want to start using solar energy on a small scale and eventually start doing bigger and better things with it. The first thing I have in mind is getting solar energy to power two small fish tanks I have. I am just curious if anyone can point me in the right direction because I don’t even know ...
  10 hours ago

• Homeowners In Hawaii Get Windfall With Solar Power

  
  Go Solar Power For Homes — Authority: 447
  While the federal government has created incentives for going solar, they are but a drip in the bucket compared to incentives being offered in Hawaii. Homeowners In Hawaii Get Windfall With Solar Power There is a move afoot to wean ourselves from fossil fuels. The federal government has attempted to promote the use ...
  10 hours ago

• Homeowners In Hawaii Get Windfall With Solar Power

  
  Go Solar Power For Homes — Authority: 447
  While the federal government has created incentives for going solar, they are but a drip in the bucket compared to incentives being offered in Hawaii. Homeowners In Hawaii Get Windfall With Solar Power There is a move afoot to wean ourselves from fossil fuels. The federal government has attempted to promote the use ...
  10 hours ago

• Making the Room With A Modern Sectional

  
  Go Solar Power For Homes — Authority: 447
  Ever notice how tight things are getting these days? Not just in the economy, but in the physical world. We don’t have as much space as we used to. There is no one reason why it’s happened. Everyone knows that the population continues to increase, but that’s not the only reason. In modern society, there are ...
  11 hours ago

• Can You Use Solar Power?

  
  Naked News — Authority: 175
  The earth receives more energy from the sun in one hour than the power requirement of the world for the whole year. Solar energy is free, renewable, clean and sustainable. We know how to harness it and we know where to use it best. Below are the different uses of solar energy.
  13 hours ago

• Scientists Make Fuel from CO2 Emissions and Sunlight

  
  Green Options — Authority: 149
  Scientists from Sandia National Labs have successfully field-tested a machine that uses solar energy to convert CO 2 waste from power plants into fuels such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. Cylindrical in shape, the device has both a hot and cold chamber with 14 Frisbee-like rings in the middle. The rings’ ...
  14 hours ago

• Looking At Those Advantages Of Solar Energy And Why You Should Switch Over

  
  AQUACHANNEL — Authority: 142
  There are many different advantages of solar energy and why it would be a great way for you to help out the environment. Not only that but it is going to be something that will save you money in the long run. However, to find out more reasons, keep reading. Still, there are more reasons why you should check into this ...
  15 hours ago

• Why We’re Thankful

  
  GetSolar.com Solar Homes & Solar Installers Directory Blog — Authority: 132
  Today is a day most of us spend focused on family and friends and food. That’s as it should be, and we wish you joy of all three. We should count our personal blessings as well as remember those who are not so blessed, and could well use a bit of our abundance. But what should we be thankful for as participants in ...
  15 hours ago

• Solar Energy Facts: Harnessing Wind Energy-You Can Develop It At Home…Today

  
  AQUACHANNEL — Authority: 142
  Numerous people feel that they can’t use wind power for their home because they don’t live on a farm or have a lot of land. The good news is that this is not true. Wind turbines come in numerous shapes and sizes. You can even put them on your roof. So now that you know you don’t have to miss out on a chance to ...
  15 hours ago

• Distributed (but large) solar company isn’t a utility, says Maine

  
  Granite Geek — Authority: 136
  In April I posted about an intriguing idea from a company called Grid Solar, which wanted to put large-ish (2 MW) solar arrays throughout Maine, using land under or alongside existing power lines to avoid the difficulty of getting space. This plan, which would have required about 25 acres per site, put it somewhere ...
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• Cambodia to develop solar power to meet domestic need

  
  Real Cambodia, Khmer News — Authority: 142
  PHNOM PENH: Ten companies from eight countries have sought permission to invest in solar energy projects in Cambodia, after the removal of a 15% duty on imports of the materials needed to build solar plants in August, China’s Xinhua news agency cited a local media as saying. “We have received many proposals for ...
  18 hours ago

• Solar powered CarGo to park cargo bikes!

  
  Greenlaunches.com — Authority: 142
  Bicycles help you maintain your fitness apart from being a far more viable and desirable mode of travel ecologically. Keeping in view the steep rise in the number cargo bikes in Copenhagen every year (it is estimated that six percent of the household of the metropolis is the proud owner of at least one cargo bike ...
  18 hours ago

• Solar power to run Pixel Qis new HDTVs

  
  Greenlaunches.com — Authority: 142
  When a company decides to make every child computer literate with a unique scheme like OLPC (One Laptop per Child), they seem to have their hearts at the right place. Pixel Qi is back in action and this time they are developing an HDTV that will run on batteries powered by the sun! The sub-10 watt HDTV has been ...
  18 hours ago

• A solar powered device converts CO2 in to usable fuel

  
  Greenlaunches.com — Authority: 142
  With the climatic situation that is prevalent today and to add to it the fast depletion of fossil fuels, the future of nature earth looks very grim. In such a scenario imagine having a machine that would take in all the CO2 from the air and promptly transform it into a useable fuel. This miracle has been made possible ...
  19 hours ago

• Obama to Go to Copenhagen With Emissions Target

  
  GreenEnergyForEarth.com - Solar & Wind Power Products — Authority: 127
  Nov 26, 2009 – Get the details of Obama’s visit to Copenhagen in John M. Broder’s article in The New York Times.
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• Coral-Shaped Nanomaterials Making Great Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 138
  Coral shaped nanomaterials could help scientists make more efficient solar cells. A team of chinese researchers, led by Jinhuai Liu at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, changed the structure of tin oxide to serve various purposes in solar cells, batteries, gas sensors and other devices.
  20 hours ago

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