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• Snowflake Shaped Phoovoltaic Cells Here To save The Planet!

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 593
  Christmas is here and people are busy shopping, decorating their Christmas trees, or making snow angels and throwing snowballs at nosy neighbours. At this time, Sandia Labs is busy creating something just as fascinating as the first snow flake, something that would help the environment as well. The snowflake shaped ...
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• Solar Powered Battery Chargers – Are They Any Good?

  
  The Solar Cost Guide — Authority: 133
  We live in a capitalist society and we have a very “live for today, don’t worry about tomorrow” attitude towards our lifestyle which is demonstrated in a number of different ways. We rely upon consumer products with reckless abandonment, very rarely taking the time to even contemplate the effort or cost that was ...
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• Solar Energy For Home

  
  Ask Mr. Fix it — Authority: 91
  Man has been looking at various forms of energy for many,many years. He has been able to use flint stones to create fire, use the fire to burn wood, and also use it for cooking. He has been able to dig deep into the earth?s crust and bring forth fossil fuels and use them for his energy requirements. He has used steam ...
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• NIMBYism On The Rise Against Solar And Wind Developments

  
  TechPulse 360 — Authority: 133
  According to the San Jose Mercury News, Panoche Valley is a treeless expanse in central California with 90 percent of the solar intensity of the Mojave Desert. The Audobon Society is complain Panoche Valley is not appropriate for a solar farm. (Photo Mercury News) Several endangered species make their homes ...
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• Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli Green Bloggers Meet in Madaba, Jordan

  
  Green Prophet — Authority: 508
  After around two months of international phone calls, this Sunday and Monday Green Prophet hosted a whirlwind two-day (20-hour) seminar on environmental blogging in Madaba, Jordan. Thanks to the good efforts of Volunteers for Peace and the Masar Center, nearly 20 Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli writers and ...
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• Mission Viejo Tests New BigBelly Solar Powered Trash Compactors

  
  Green Options — Authority: 148
  Mission Viejo , California has become the latest in a string of cities to try out a new sustainable street-scale solar powered trash compactor called the BigBelly Solar Compactor .  In partnership with its waste hauler Waste Management , the city hopes to cut trash pickups from street containers by up to 80%, ...
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• Simple Solar Solutions for Hot Water: Will Jordan Seize the Opportunity?

  
  Green Prophet — Authority: 508
  Blogger Azul looks at the use of solar thermal energy for heating Jordanians’ water. Here’s an example of a solar heater on a roof in Jordan. If you’ve been following Green Prophet, you’ve been enjoying the posts from our Environment Blogging Workshop in Madaba, Jordan. Jordanian blogger “Azul” talks ...
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• Eco Tech: Keahole Solar Power’s new farm generates renewable energy even after sunset

  
  Ecofriend — Authority: 628
  Eco Factor: Solar power plant capable of generating green electricity even after dark. Keahole Solar Power has installed an array of micro-scale concentrating solar power concentrators at the Holaniku Solar Farm on Hawaii’s Big Island, which will be able to generate renewable energy even after sunset, ...
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• Environment Journalists, Bloggers and Activists From Israel, Jordan and the PA Unite: Let’s Meet Jordan

  
  Green Prophet — Authority: 508
  Osama, Khaloud, Zein and Sawsan (from left to right) present green projects from Jordan at Green Prophet’s Environment blogging workshop . It was 20 hours we will never forget. Nineteen journalists, activists and bloggers from Jordan, the PA and Israel met at an international blogging workshop in Jordan ...
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• Eco Tech: Asia’s largest HCPV plant powers up in Taiwan

  
  Ecofriend — Authority: 628
  Eco Factor: HCPV plant capable of producing 100MW of clean power annually. Asia’s largest high-concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) power plant has been powered up in Taiwan, and it is expected to save up to 700 tons of CO2 emissions per year. Established by the Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, the power plant ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• Solar Power For Heavy Industry

  
  Mindzle - Living Green Smart - Sustainable Living Articles — Authority: 127
  Significant solar power plant projects are being considered in locations like California and New Mexico where there is significant sunshine.  It is therefore reasonable to consider the overall effectiveness and practicality of solar power plants on a large scale.  To what extent can solar power be used to power ...
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• Californias Mojave Desert may not become a solar capital after all

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 676
  Filed under: Other issues , Politics The solar energy movement, so promising, has hit a speed bump. Just as solars cost per kilowatt hour starts to become attractive, from a U.S. residential use standpoint, sure enough another roadblock has appeared. The problem? Environmental concern about destroyed or altered ...
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• Solar Power Overcomes Biggest Hurdle, Produces Energy at Night

  
  GreenPacks.org — Authority: 506
  As is common knowledge, solar energy installations are only as good as the direct sun they face. There’s nothing to do at night, and clouds are a bad thing. In an interesting turn of events, solar energy appears to have overcome that giant hurdle, in what some optimistic people call the “Holy Grail for Renewable ...
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• Cleantech VCs show no signs of holiday slowdown

  
  Cleantech Group - Latest clean technology news — Authority: 586
  Solar tube investors get ready to check off their wish lists as the company prepares for a $300M IPO. Details of this, plus we spot 40 deals in the past seven days.
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• Solyndra Files for Initial Public Offering

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 134
  Money.jpg Solyndra, Inc. , a manufacturer of innovative cylindrical photovoltaic systems for commercial rooftops, recently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering (IPO) of its common stock.
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• Air Force Putting $2.3B into Energy, Water Conservation

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  A host of efforts from the U.S. Air Force are expected to help reduce facility energy intensity 30 percent and potable water use 16 percent by 2015.The Air Force is spending $2.3 billion on energy conservation, energy-related facility audits, third-party contract buyouts, water conservation and renewable energy ...
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• California Ground Zero For Solar Battles

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  California may prove to be the testing ground for acceptance of large-scale solar, as environmentalists face off against renewable energy advocates.A proposed solar farm in Panoche Valley that would be the world’s largest at 1.2 million panels covering an area of about 3,500 football field is coming under fire from ...
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• Feinstein says “No!” to solar panels in desert

  
  Is It Getting Warmer? — Authority: 122
  Kent Bernhard Jr. has written a very well-thought opinion in Portfolio.com. He discusses the realities of creating energy to support our lifestyles and the inherent difficulty in doing so without disturbing the environment in some way. There are no easy answers and no secret formula to create fuel for our consumption. ...
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• Japan To Build Solar Plant in Jericho, Palestine

  
  Green Prophet — Authority: 508
  Jericho in Palestine will light up with solar power thanks to Japanese initiative. The Japanese government has agreed to assist the Palestinian Authority with two solar energy projects totaling $23 million, according to the Palestinian  Maan News Agency . Part of the funds, $16.7 million, will be used to assist ...
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