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- Nanosolar ships cost efficient solar panels
- Nanosolar, a solar energy firm, promises cheaper-than-coal electricity with its first commercial-grade solar electric panels. An excerpt from New York Times: "Nanosolar's founder and chief executive, Martin Roscheisen, claims to be the first solar panel manufacturer to be able to profitably sell solar panels for less...
- Tags: Panel, Nanosolar, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-12-22
- Photos: World's largest solar power plant
- In the fields outside a small Bavarian town, the solar panels add up to a whole lot of megawatts.
- Tags: photograph, solar energy, whole lot
- Image galleries 2006-09-05
- Photos: Solar speed racers Down Under
- Teams from around the world were on the move across Australia this week to show what a homemade car and some solar panels can do. by CNET News.com
- Tags: news, automotive, solar, australia, TechRepublic Inc., Photograph, Team Management, Management, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-10-29
- Photos: With solar energy, it's silicon vs. CIGS
- As demand for alternative energy grows, so does the debate over what material is best for solar panels.
- Tags: alternative energy, photograph, silicon, solar energy
- Image galleries 2006-10-02
- Shrinking the cost for solar power
- setting prioritiesWhile agreeing to the outlines of the article I think there's a lot of pragmatic solutions. How many gigawatts-hours are used in the US for heating household water? Solar water heating on the roof of a house is already down at the rate of the cheapest electricity. So as...
- Tags: Elmonk, solar energy
- Discussion threads 2007-05-15
- Create your own killer energy saving and money saving solar power strategy
- Recent government surveys have found that the average Australian household is using 20-30% more energy than necessary.This is like standing at the window at your place and throwing dollar bills into the wind one at a time. Intelligent energy usage and bringing energy saving methods and appliances into your life...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, taniyamartin@..., strategy, solar energy
- Discussion threads 2007-11-17
- Photos: A Cool Robot for polar duty
- A boxy robot covered with solar panels could be just the thing for researchers in Antarctica.
- Tags: Robots, Antarctica, robot, photograph, researcher
- Image galleries 2007-03-16
- A ray of sunshine on new solar-powered computer
- You might have read Arun's recent report about Lenovo's new low-powered PC, the ThinkCentre A61e. At a mere 45 watts of power consumption, it is also 25 percent smaller than the earlier ThinkCentre models. For those environmentally conscious folks out there who would like to go...
- Tags: IBM ThinkCentre, Panel, Battery, Computer, Solar-PowerPC II, Engineering, Desktops, Hardware, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-09-16
- Google goes black to show that it is green
- The Google homepage flipped its color palette to black on March 29 to show its support for Earth Hour. See how Google went black in order to be green, and photos of some of Google's other green initiatives, including electric cars and solar panels at its headquarters. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: green IT, google
- Image galleries 2008-04-02
- (Photos: MIT's solar house under construction)
- sunny side upThis all seems a bit retro and 70's!! Surely with one of the criteria being marketability (strange word I know!) then a judgement should be - how many have you sold! More an MBA feature than a sustainable energy project. And with all the homes now needed in...
- Tags: chrisganderampy@..., photograph, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Discussion threads 2007-08-21
- The solar-powered computer
- Is the solar-powered computer for you?HmmmSounds like a good idea but how realiable is it really? In some places where it rains a lot this won't work too well. I bet they won't have a use for it in Nome Alaska in the wintertime either!EMDNothing new hereMy uncle...
- Tags: Fuel cells, Telecom & Utilities, computer, paulmah@..., solar energy, fuel cell, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2007-09-17
- How much does it take to power a data center? It's none of your business.
- Governments creating or changing laws for the benifit of a corporationis nothing new. They have influence, and probably a lot of friends in the Oklahoma government. The company will bring in taxes and provide jobs. How is it any different from businesses that spew toxins into the air being virtually...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, brian.mills@..., data center
- Discussion threads 2007-05-24
- Geek Trivia: Ahead of its time (and space)
- The Crookes RadiometerHey, Jay, if you never had a Crookes Radiometer as a kid, you may not truly qualify as a science Geek.Of course, the Crookes Radiometer doesn't work properly (it's a diferent sort of effect that swamps the radiative pressure effect and actually causes the blades to turn BACKWARDS,...
- Tags: Bill Ward, career, Crookes Radiometer, radiation, trajectory, trivia, wind
- Discussion threads 2006-03-29
- Is there money in being 'green'?
- Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ...
- Tags: Solar Data Centers, solar panel, Web hosting, server
- Technical articles 2004-09-27
- Solar panel for running a notebook?
- I am trying to connect a solar panel to charge the battery of my Compaq nx5000. (The solar panel is a Brunton SolarRoll 14, designed to recharge notebook computers in the field). The problem -- the connection cord from the solar panel to the computer's power-input jack has 4 possible...
- Tags: battery, cgreen7@..., networking, notebook, Solar Cell, solar panel, Solar-cell
- Discussion threads 2005-05-09
- Computer monitor that draws zero power on standby
- Fujitsu Siemens has successfully come up with monitors that don't consume electricity from the main electrical supply when in standby mode. The technology is covered by six patents, and the first of these monitors are scheduled to go on sale next spring. How do these...
- Tags: Monitor, Fujitsu Siemens, Computer Monitor, Technology, Standby, Computer, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
- Pumping power onto the grid from your basement
- Net-connected energy-storage appliancesA company called GridPoint has developed Internet-connected appliances for storing electricity in people's homes.See the photo gallery: Net-connected energy storagehttp://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10880_11-30624.htmlThe selling point for many of these products is lowering electricity bills, because the energy-storage appliances use electricity off-peak.Do you see a future for these storage devices in a...
- Tags: grid, gridpoint, storage, news, energy, gallery, Sonja Thompson, hardware, Net Metering, hydrogen, natural gas
- Discussion threads 2006-08-10
- Real Power= Power v. Power
- An old wise adage goes something like this “Necessity is the mother of invention”.As the cost of energy continues to rise exponentially shouldn’t the purchasing decisions of the computer industry be based on the balance between the CPU power v. overall power consumption of the workstation/severs. Rather than the traditional...
- Tags: CPU, power consumption
- Discussion threads 2005-09-12
- (Images: Orion spacecraft prepares for moon landing)
- It may be a quibble, but those abort rockets are not quite new...The caption for the picture of a capsule being lifter by "abort rockets" states:Unlike previous NASA manned-missions, the Orion spacecraft will have abort rockets onboard that in an emergency will separate it from the rest of the rocket...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Wesley Jolly, rocket, ORION, shuttle, Apollo
- Discussion threads 2007-08-03
- Silicon Valley gone dark - day two
- I feel for you, manI know what it's like trying to set up a cooling system on a hot day. NOT FUN!! And from your description you had a harder job than I did.Back in 2000, thereabouts, when CA was suffering from rolling blackouts, it sounds like Enron and possibly...
- Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., Enron Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-07-25
