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• Australian Breakthrough Will Help Increase Solar Cell Efficiency

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Australian researchers have come up with an ingenious method of increasing the efficiency of conventional solar cells. A team led by University of Sydney scientists Dr Tim Schmidt and Professor Max Crossley have achieved a one third increase in the upconversion efficiency of solar cells by harvesting the part of ...
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• Solar Update: October 2009, leaping over September 2009

  
  StarkSilverCreek - All Things West Coast — Authority: 438
  I knew it would eventually happen. After over a year of coverage of the solar generation from our Sunpower solar energy panels, I missed a month’s update, September 2009.Sometimes, no news is good news. In this case, the solar panels ...
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• The future of solar, water and greentech: Talking with A-list VC guy Brian Hinman

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 792
  Filed under: Energy , Technology , First Solar , Green On a recent trip down to Silicon Valley from San Francisco, I got a chance to sit down for an extended discussion with Brian Hinman . He is one of a growing number of A-list venture capitalists who have jumped the fence from IT into alternative energy and ...
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• Garden State Gets Sweet Solar Garden

  
  GoodCleanTech — Authority: 475
  The Mars chocolate company opened a solar garden at its North American headquarters in Hackettstown, New Jersey, yesterday. Composed of more than 28,000 ground-mounted solar panels across 18 acres, its the largest solar facility at a New Jersey food manufacturing plant. It will provide 2 MW of power at peak ...
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• M&M’S® and MARS Going Green? New Solar Garden at Headquarters in New Jersey

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 627
  Candy giant MARS, parent company of M&M’S®, DOVE®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, 3 MUSKETEERS®, and TWIX®, turned on a huge new solar array (a “solar garden”) at its headquarters in New Jersey today. No matter what you think of candy food like this, it is good to see such a company going solar. Popular with ...
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• Suntech (STP) Begins Building 50MW Solar Power Plant In Jiangsu

  
  Green Stocks Central — Authority: 508
  Suntech just announced that it has begun construction on its 50 MW solar plant in Jiangsu, China. Suntech is working with Huadian New Energy Development Company to build the plant.  The company will design the plant and install 37,000 of its own PV solar panels. Suntech will also own a minority stake in the plant ...
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• Piper Jaffray Downgrades GT Solar (SOLR), Lowers Price Target

  
  Green Stocks Central — Authority: 508
  Piper Jaffray is downgrading GT Solar (SOLR) to Underweight and slashing the price target to $3 following the earnings report . Hat tip to StreetInsider.com for the following comment: “While we believe SOLR’s DSS furnace business is well positioned for a coming expansion cycle and possibly a replacement cycle ...
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• Solar-Sail Spacecraft Gets Second Chance

  
  GoodCleanTech — Authority: 475
  Back in 2005, what was supposed to be the first solar-sail space vehicle to be sent into orbit called Cosmos 1 never reached its destination. Its carrier, a Russian rocket, malfunctioned shortly after liftoff from the submarine that contained it. The failed mission now gets its second chance as Cosmos 1 was ...
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• JA Solar (JASO) Smashes Estimates, Back In Black

  
  Green Stocks Central — Authority: 508
  JA Solar (JASO) smashed analyst estimates this morning and has posted the first quarterly profit in a year.  The company reported an EPS of .10/share, .07/share better than Wall St estimates.  Revenues also smashed estimates coming in at $193 million vs the Wall St estimate of $136 million.   This is a big upside ...
  18 hours ago

• Virginia Solar Rebate Program Now Open

  
  GetSolar.com Solar Homes & Solar Installers Directory Blog — Authority: 131
  Back in April, we reported that the state of Virginia had set aside $39 million in stimulus funding for renewable energy projects. Of that sum, $15 million was earmarked to help homeowners, businesses and nonprofits install solar power and wind energy systems. Nearly seven months on, it looks like the funds will ...
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• Greenbuild Conference Boasts Construction Innovations

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 620
  Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, to be held this week in Phoenix, will be a springboard for businesses to discuss their sustainable activities, reports Phoenix Business Journal.Projected to draw 20,000 people and generate about $29 million for the local economy, the conference features new sustainable ...
  19 hours ago

• Land of the Rising Sun Power! Japan May Build a Solar Station in Space by 2030

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 627
  The Japanese space agency has unveiled an incredible new plan to start collecting solar power in space , and zap it down to Earth via microwaves or laser beams. Under the plan, known as the Space Solar Power System (SSPS) , floating photovoltaic dishes several square miles across would hover in geostationary ...
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• Owens Corning, SunEdison Power Up 440-kW PV Solar System in NJ

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 620
  Owens Corning, a leading supplier of building materials and glass fiber reinforcements, and SunEdison, North America’s largest solar services provider, announced the activation of a 440 kilowatt (kW) roof-mount photovoltaic (PV) solar system at Owens Corning’s Kearny, N.J., facility. The new system will produce ...
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• India tops McKinsey & Company energy report

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 437
  India, along with the US, has emerged as the world’s topmost solar power generator, according to the recent McKinsey & Company survey. Concluded in May 2009, the energy research reveals that India has one of the highest solar intensities in the world, yielding an installed solar energy capacity of 1,700 to ...
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• Hold The Line. Energy Changes Are a Long Time Coming

  
  The Buzz Bin — Authority: 118
    By Mike Mulvihill       Wind Power. Renewable Energy. Green Economy . There is an awesome amount of momentum in the America right now around all of these topics. We’re on the cusp of real change in how we create the gobs of energy we increasingly consume in a manner that is kinder and gentler to Mother ...
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• The Future of Energy - Solar PV Panels

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 144
  By Nick Gent In 1839 Edmund Becquere l discovered that when photons of light strike two thin layers of silicon, which is a natural semiconductor, electrons are released and flow from one layer to the other, thus producing electricity. Photovoltaics are the wonderful science of generating electricity directly from ...
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• GT Solar (SOLR) Reports Mixed Results, Shares Slump AH

  
  Green Stocks Central — Authority: 508
  GT Solar (SOLR) reported mixed earnings results after the bell today with a miss on the EPS side (reporting .06/share vs estimates of .07/share) and a beat on the revenue side (reporting $104 million vs estimates of $101.8).  EPS was off 68% from the year ago period, so certainly another solar company that is ...
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• Mobile Script: Concept mobile that rolls out at your command!

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 611
  We might not be too far away from the days when we just work on holographic projections and 3D images instead of actual surfaces when it comes to pressing buttons and viewing images, but till the days of the Star Trek well and truly arrive, concept designs like the Mobile Script could be the ones that we need to work ...
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• Briz, the solar solution to cooling rooms without closing windows and doors

  
  Livbit — Authority: 133
  Whenever we want to turn on the air conditioner we close all the ventilation available and breathe in a closed space. Briz makes it a different experience by providing a cool room without having us to be confined and stop enjoying the free flow of outside air. As per the designing of Briz there are two tubes ...
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• Daily Sprout

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 663
  Green Consumer Habits in the Recession: American consumers, with their tendency to make green purchasing choices based on personal self-interest, have more in common with their counterparts in developing economies than one might ever have imagined. — Joel Makower’s Two Steps Forward Building the EV Ecosystem: ...
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