News tagged with solar project

Discovery of Indian artifacts complicates Genesis solar project

The Feb. 27 letter from the chairman of the Colorado River Indian Tribes was pleading and tough. It asked President Barack Obama to slow the federal government's "frantic pursuit" of massive solar energy projects in the Mojave ...

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created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

SDSC's Trestles supercomputer speeds clean energy research

A team of Harvard University researchers has been allocated time on the Trestles supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego to perform computational calculations ...

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created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Canadians rally against wind power

Hundreds of Canadians demonstrated on Tuesday calling for an end to subsidies for wind power, saying noise from colossal turbines is making some people sick and driving down rural property prices.

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created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (9) | comments 32

Nuclear centrifuge project to move ahead

A giant nuclear centrifuge project in southern Ohio will move forward despite a setback in Congress this week, uranium enrichment company USEC said Friday.

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created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 9

Solar water heaters use 1/3 energy, Progress Energy study finds

Progress Energy customers saved an average of $235 a year by switching to solar thermal water heater, representing an average annual savings of 63 percent on the water heater portion of their power bill.

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created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Solar installations doubled last year, with California leading the way

The amount of photovoltaic solar panels installed in the United States more than doubled from 2010 to 2011, representing a historic year for the American solar industry.

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created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Problems cast shadows of doubt on solar project

One of California's showcase solar energy projects, under construction in the desert east of Los Angeles, is being threatened by a deadly outbreak of distemper among kit foxes and the discovery of a prehistoric human settlement ...

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created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Facebook, Greenpeace in truce over data centers

(AP) -- Facebook and Greenpeace have called a truce over a clean energy feud that had the environmental group using the social network's own platform to campaign against it.

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created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

U.S. announces desert 'solar energy zones'

The Obama administration on Thursday announced its plan for solar energy development, directing large-scale industrial projects to 285,000 acres of desert in the Western U.S. while opening 20 million acres of the Mojave for ...

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created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 9

Now you can determine the solar efficiency of your roof

It is becoming more and more common to install solar panels on roofs in order to obtain green electricity, but not all roofs are equally suitable. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have ...

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created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Powered by the sun, Stanford ingenuity

On Thursday, Aug. 11, the Stanford Solar Car Project officially unveils Xenith, a solar-powered vehicle two years in the making that boasts several industry-leading technological innovations. The team will ...

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created Aug 12, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Solar loan guarantees announced

(AP) -- The Department of Energy has announced nearly $4.5 billion in conditional commitments for loan guarantees for three California solar projects, the agency said.

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created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Solar water heaters offer relief to S.Africans

For years the only hot water in Zoleka Mali's home came out of a pot on her paraffin stove.

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created Jun 26, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Australia picks Areva for solar energy project

French state-owned energy group Areva announced Tuesday that it had won a bid to participate in an Australian solar energy programme.

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created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

One million Bangladesh homes on solar power

The number of households in electricity-starved Bangladesh using solar panels has crossed the one million mark -- the fastest expansion of solar use in the world, officials said Wednesday.

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created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0