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Ecofriendly: SET-Solar announces turnkey solutions for Solar energy
SET-Solar has two product lines, standard and premium, with 13 different models, all listed in the California Solar Initiative (CSI) directory and UL certified. SET-Solar will showcase its products at the Solar Power International 2009 Conference and Exhibition in Anaheim, California, Oct. 26-29, 2009 in Booth #1285. The company will have specialists available to discuss solar solutions, including financing plans.
30Oct2009 | ecofriendly | 2 comments | Continued
Solar power for less than $2 a day
Imagine a solar panel as affordable as a fancy new bicycle. A panel designed so simply that you can install one (or more) yourself, just outside your windows, in the course of an afternoon.
That’s the concept behind Oakland, Calif.-based Veranda Solar, a start-up founded last year by Capra J’neva and Emilie Fetscher, recent graduates of the product design program at Stanford University. J’neva and Fetscher dreamed up attractive, flower-shaped solar panels as part of their master’s project at the design school. “We created a starter solar system that expands as your budget does,” J’neva says.
1Apr2009 | ecofriendly | 3 comments | Continued
Here’s a hot idea: SVSU creates solar oven to sanitize compost
The oven, built of plywood and fiberglass insulation, is powered by a funnel-like array of reflective mylar that focuses sunlight into the top of the box through a window of double-paned glass.
The contraption is angled toward the sun with brackets and mounted on a cart with wheels, so it can be adjusted throughout the day.
Altogether, the oven cost about $300 to build. Roekle is working on a portable, low-cost unit that could be used at campgrounds, instead of propane and charcoal.
MIT builds solar-powered race car that runs all day
A group of researchers at MIT have developed an out-of-the-ordinary new race car, one that isnt dependent on gasoline. Thats right, the team has built a car that runs on solar power .
The car, dubbed Eleanor , can reportedly maintain a cruising speed of 55 miles-per-hour and run all day — if the sun is shining, according to MIT. To get that kind of power from sunlight, researchers have designed the car with six square meters of monocrystalline silicon solar cells and an improved electronic systems.
4Mar2009 | ecofriendly | 2 comments | Continued
ESolar to build solar power plants in India
ACME will make a $30 million equity investment in eSolar in return for the exclusive right to develop plants employing the companys modular solar thermal power technology.
The partnership is eSolars first foray outside the United States. The Pasadena, California, company has been racking up deals with U.S. utilities, including an agreement last month with NRG Energy Inc to create up to 500 MW of solar thermal power plants in the U.S. Southwest.
Eco-Friendly Solar Power gains support
Measure B, known as the Green Jobs Initiative, would require the DWP to develop 400 megawatts of solar energy – enough to power 240,000 homes – over the next five years. It’s part of the city’s ambitious plan to develop 1,300 megawatts of renewable power by 2020.
4Mar2009 | ecofriendly | 0 comments | Continued
Stimulus Bill and Solar Power- Let the Sun Shine: Stimulating Energy and Employment
* To maximize job creation, spending on renewable energy envisioned in the economic stimulus bill should be targeted at distributed generation projects, which use local labor for installation and increase the efficiency and reliability of power supply.
* Of the renewable energy sources, solar photovoltaic (PV) power is best suited to realize the potential of distributed and renewable energy generation. It matches peak energy demand most closely and offers the best opportunity to substitute expensive, centrally-generated electricity.
* Direct federal procurement and renewable energy loan guarantees, grants, and tax credits should favor smaller, distributed PV installations connected to the local distribution grid or generating electricity directly at the point of consumption.
* A significant share of the stimulus bill’s funding for modernizing the electricity grid should go to installing the electrical gear and smart power electronics and communication devices necessary for integration of distributed PV systems into the grid and better management of onsite generation, storage and use of energy.
24Feb2009 | ecofriendly | 0 comments | Continued
Progress in the Solar Cell Two Step Method
Thermal photovoltaics are solar cells that convert the light that radiates from a hot surface into electricity. The first applications will be generating electricity from waste heat, and then the technology could be developed to generate electricity from sunlight far more efficiently than photovoltaic solar cells. In the thermal photovoltaics system, sunlight is concentrated on a device to heat it up, and the light it emits is then converted into electricity by the photovoltaic portion of the cell. That’s a very interesting combination of engineering steps.
19Feb2009 | ecofriendly | 0 comments | Continued
Dramatically Extending Lifetime Of Organic Solar Cells
The efficiency and operation of organic solar cells strongly depends on the nanomorphology of the active layer, i.e. on a stable mix of organic compounds that can trap the light’s energy and transport it to an electric contact. IMEC already reported such cells based on P3HT:PCBM with efficiencies near 5%. But to date, the lifetime of these cells is far too short for commercial applications, for which 5 years is seen as a minimum.
4Feb2009 | ecofriendly | 0 comments | Continued
electric motors would sometimes overheat if they are not properly ventilated`:* 
i always prefer those wool and cotton baby beddings because they keep the baby warm:*: 
wind farms are great but they also take up a large land area~~, 
i always buy recycled products to reduce the waste materials on this planet.~-~ 
It’s posts like this that keep me coming back and checking this site regularly, thanks for the info! 
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Renewable energy is the future, why depend on fossil fuels when we can go renewable.`-~ 
Renewable energy is the future, why depend on fossil fuels when we can go renewable.:`; 
Willsie also invented the Photak camera, Chicago Camera Co. One of the first cameras invented for the consumer. 