News tagged with solar energy systems

NRL charges Marine Corps expeditionary power requirements

Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Electronic Science and Technology Division are working to help the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) reduce expeditionary energy supply needs and risks and increase ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Solar panels cause clashes with homeowner groups

(AP) -- The government wants you to install solar panels at your house, and will even give you a tax break to do it. But your neighbors? Maybe not.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 14

Space Image: Sunspots and solar flares

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured this image of an M7.9 class flare on March 13, 2012 at 1:29 p.m. EDT. It is shown here in the 131 Angstrom wavelength, a wavelength particularly ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Solar storms join floods, terrorism as risks to UK

(AP) -- Britain has added volcanoes and solar storms to floods, flu and terrorism on a list of threats to national security.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Major contract will supply solar panels derived from CERN technology

At Geneva International Airport, SRB Energy delivered the first of the solar panels that will form one of the largest solar energy systems of Switzerland. Ultimately, some 300 high-temperature solar thermal ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Man-made photosynthesis to revolutionize food and energy production

Improving natural photosynthesis to make new fuels and boost crop production is the focus of new research presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting today. It could see us one ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New battery could lead to cheaper, more efficient solar energy

A joint research project between the University of Southampton and lithium battery technology company REAPsystems has found that a new type of battery has the potential to improve the efficiency and reduce the cost of solar ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

UT biosolar breakthrough promises cheap, easy green electricity

Barry D. Bruce, professor of biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is turning the term "power plant" on its head. The biochemist and a team of researchers have developed ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Evaluating the energy balance of Saturn's moon Titan

To understand the weather and climate on Earth as well as on other planets and their moons, scientists need to know the global energy balance, the balance between energy coming in from solar radiation and thermal energy radiated ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 02, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2

The high winds of the upper atmosphere contain less renewable energy than previously assumed

It seems that the energy mix of the future will have to differ from the current suggestions of some visionaries. This is because the jet streams that sweep the upper atmosphere with high winds would yield ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

Landsat satellites track Yellowstone's underground heat

(PhysOrg.com) -- Yellowstone National Park sits on top of a vast, ancient, and still active volcano. Heat pours off its underground magma chamber, and is the fuel for Yellowstone's famous features -- more ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Voyager 1 hits new region at solar system edge

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space. Data obtained from Voyager over the last year reveal this new region to be a kind of cosmic ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (37) | comments 118 | with audio podcast

Affordable solar: It's closer than you think

It's time to stop thinking of solar energy as a boutique source of power, says Joshua Pearce.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (31) | comments 59 | with audio podcast

Canadian solar project wins top environment award

Canada has scooped a top prize for environmental protection awarded by the Austrian foundation Energy Globe for a community project that uses solar-powered heating to warm local houses.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 26, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 25

Turning Arizona's dry heat into a comfy chill

An innovative solar-thermal heating and cooling system installed on top of the UA's Student Recreation Center is expected to harvest almost 200 million kilowatt hours of solar energy per year – enough ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3