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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 | | 4 comments | Continued
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Geothermal energy a step closer for Western Australia

“The expected expenditure for geothermal exploration for the 36 permits in the Perth Basin is more than $560million in the next six years,” he said.

“This industry has the potential to provide clean energy to the State’s electricity network and offer innovative solutions for companies to meet their own power requirements.

“Harnessing geothermal energy, for heating and power use, is another feather in the State’s clean energy cap.”

29Jan2009 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Turbine project aims to link education, real world

The mission of the spinners is to increase educational awareness of renewable sources of power, said Ruth Douglas Miller, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at K-State. Each machine has a 12-foot diameter and produces two kilowatts, approximately the energy needed to power a hair dryer.

8Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

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