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First solar-powered boat to circle the world pulls into home port, contemplates next move
ENGADGET Fri, 04 May 2012 20:54:00 EDT
It's been two years since we last heard of the 98-foot-long solar-powered boat, which at the time was gearing up for its big journey around the world. Well, some 19 months and 37,286 miles after setting sail from Monaco, the MS Turanor PlanetSolar has finally made it home. The PlanetSolar broke four Guinness world records along the way, including the all-important "first circumnavigation by solar-powered boat," and it made stops on six continents to promote solar energy. Oh, and the team fended off Somalian pirates in the process, too. Now that it has a moment to catch its breath and soak up some rays at leisure, the MS Turanor could become any number of things -- from the world's largest solar battery to a "green luxury yacht." The latter option would certainly befit its chichi home port. First solar-powered boat to circle the world pulls into home port, contemplates next move originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 May 2012 20:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of.......
Invest in green energy for just £5
GUARDIAN Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:58:04 GMT
Community finance project Abundance allows regular savers to earn up to 9% A new website has been launched with the aim of enabling people to invest from as little as £5 in green energy projects and enjoy an attractive return. Abundance describes itself as a "community finance platform" allowing small investors to put money into UK renewable energy schemes and receive a regular cash return based on the energy produced. It is looking to raise money from consumers tired of the old banking model who want their cash to be used to help fund green projects and facilitate change. And it says rates of return are expected to average 5%-9%, depending on the type of scheme in which the money is invested. Abundance is currently aiming to raise £1.4m to build a wind turbine on the edge of the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, and has plans for further renewable energy schemes – solar and hydro – around the country. The platform says it works in a similar way to "peer-to-peer" lending......
Could this shake (or stir up) solar energy? Nasa designs 'cocktail glass' that harvests rays from space
DAILYMAIL Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:15:51 GMT
Nasa has allocated funds to a Californian company for preliminary research into the huge solar panel that would soak up the sun’s rays from high above Earth.
Google Buys Wind, Bets on Sun
BUSINESSWEEK Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:06:07 EST
The world’s largest Web-search provider is harnessing wind to run data centers while investing in solar energy
UK scientists to help satellites dodge sun storms
YAHOO Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:55:56 GMT
LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have developed a system to help protect navigation and communications satellites from potentially devastating solar storms, they said on Friday. Services spanning everything from mobile phones to sophisticated weaponry increasingly depend on global positioning system, or GPS, technology. However damage by a massive burst of solar energy could knock out GPS satellites and send them veering into the paths of other craft or scramble their communications. ...
China trumpets completion of 'world's largest battery energy storage station'
ENGADGET Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:28:00 EDT
See that above? That's the world's largest battery energy storage station, or so says the State Grid Corporation of China and BYD. The two entities have just wrapped up construction on the Zhangbei-based project, which marries 40 Mega-Watts of renewable energy generation (both wind and solar), 36 Mega-Watt-Hours (MWh) of energy storage and a smart power transmission system. The goal? To provide a "stable solution for transferring vast amounts of renewable electricity safely to the grid on an unprecedented scale." As it stands, BYD products 1GW of solar panels annually, and with China's population still rising, it's solutions like these that'll help it grow while keeping efficiencies high. Soaking up rays for solar energy is all fine and well, but having a facility to capture and store it is where the equation really comes together; something tells us a few other nations will be scrambling to snatch the record in short order. Continue reading China trumpets completion of 'world's..
Solyndra hearing: unflappable Steven Chu endures five-hour grilling
GUARDIAN Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:00:19 GMT
Energy secretary assailed for repeatedly claiming to have had no real-time knowledge of key events in firm's collapse The US energy secretary, Steven Chu, put up a strong defence of the administration's loan to a failed solar company on Thursday, but the Nobel physics laureate's own wisdom and judgment was put under the microscope in a hostile congressional hearing. In five and a half hours of gruelling testimony to the house energy and commerce committee, Chu was assailed for repeatedly claiming to have had no real-time knowledge of key events in the collapse of Solyndra, which went bankrupt in August after receiving $535m in government loans. "I hope you didn't leave your brains at the door," Morgan Griffith, a Republican from Virginia, told Chu. The energy secretary, who remained unflappable throughout the barrage, was just as unyielding on the question of an apology for the failure of Solyndra and the loss of taxpayer funds. In his testimony Chu refused on multiple.....
Despite Solyndra debacle, Americans support solar (part 2)
ZDNET Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:33:31 GMT
Close to 90 percent of those polled in the 2011 SCHOTT Solar Barometer believe it is important for the United States to develop and use solar energy.
Learn from Solyndra, Deregulate the Energy Market
WN Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:13:00 GMT
The bankruptcy of the solar energy company Solyndra not only cost taxpayers over half a billion, it also dealt a serious blow to the nation's adoption of clean energy. The Obama administration's attempt to jump-start the clean energy sector by picking favorites begs the question whether the federal government, instead of picking winners and losers in the battle to transform the nature of America's energy use, should, instead, step back, enable adequate oversight and set the stage for the market to decide for itself. The electric power sector of the nation's total carbon dioxide emissions, according to the Department of Energy's Energy Information Agency (EIA). That total is greater than any...
Solar incentive cuts to wreak havoc with UK businesses
TECHEYE Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:48:20 GMT
Government subsidies for solar energy are being slashed, threatening to create chaos in the UK solar industry.It is thought that planned cuts to the solar incentive Feed-In-Tariff scheme will wreak havoc for UK businesses, with many expected to g
This Stock Is 'Untouchable'
CNBC Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:45:00 GMT
Cramer keeps this solar energy name on the "Sell Block."
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Towering tulips help solar power flower
REUTERS Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:52:00 GMT
April 2 - An Israeli energy company is taking flower power to a new level. The company, AORA, is using tulip-shaped towers to concentrate solar energy into a high temperature gas that can be used to power entire communities. Their newest plant has just opened in Spain. Joanne Nicholson reports.
Suntech's solar ambitions
CNN Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:49:31 GMT
Suntech's Chief Commercial Officer Andrew Beebe discusses the outlook for Suntech and the solar energy sector in 2012.
Video: Congress to grill energy chief on Solyndra
MSNBC.MSN Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:44:52 GMT
Energy Secretary Steven Chu will be in the hot seat Thursday on Capitol Hill. He’s expected to face tough questions about a $500 million federal loan given to Solyndra, a solar energy company tied to one of President Obama’s donors that went bankrupt. NBC’s Lisa Myers reports. (TODAY)
White House faces subpoena over Solyndra
CNN Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:40:28 GMT
A House panel is looking into federal loan guarantees for a solar energy company that filed for bankruptcy.

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