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- (Building on flexible solar cells)
- Building on flexible solar cellsThe relevant questionsHow does the cost per unit of energy output compare? And is the material recyclable? It seems to me these are more significant than efficiency at converting light to electricity (the sun if free, after all) and the lifespan of the product (within...
- Tags: Manufacturing, photovoltaics, polymer, solar cell
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- New Mexico looks to harvest jobs from sun
- Solar thermal tubes. Courtesy Schott. A new solarvoltaic production plant is opening in Albuquerque. It's owned by Schott Solar. The plant opens in a month and will employ about 300 people. Schott North America is based in Roseville, California. It is...
- Tags: Job, Photovoltaics, Schott North America, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- One solar company sets positive record
- Solar collectors. Courtesy: Schott. A half-century old German solar company just had a record earnings year. And they could be on their way to another one in 2009. Despite the recession. Exxon, eat your hear out. Schott Solar of Mainz,...
- Tags: Exxon Mobil Corp., Photovoltaics, Schott Solar, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Bright day for Silicon Valley solar company
- Solar collector panels. Courtesy SolFocus. SolFocus of Mountain View says they will be helping build several solar collector installations in Greece. Partnering with an investment firm and an engineering firm, SolFocus says the original agreement for solar collection work in Greece has been increased...
- Tags: Greece, Photovoltaics, Courtesy SolFocus, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- Always On and evergreen
- Always On has just announced their picks for the top fifty, privately-held, green tech companies based in the eastern U.S. Their overall winner: GreatPoint Energy. Always on concluded about the firm: "GreatPoint is commercializing a technology that converts raw coal into natural gas. This technology can yield...
- Tags: Coal, Photovoltaics, Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- Coolerado looks to sun to keep things cool
- Just stumbled upon this information from Coolerado, which makes technology for solar-powered air conditioners. The company is out drumming up partnerships with solar installers from the commercial and residential world. It claims that the system featured in this video, which runs off six solar photovoltaic panels, can cool up to...
- Tags: Photovoltaics, Video, Manufacturing, Corporate Communications, Business Structures, Marketing, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- What price solar?
- Given its plentiful sunshine, it's a no-brainer that Silicon Valley is investing heavily in solar products, not just in terms of consumer and commercial installations but in manufacturing facilities that hope to cash in on the adoption of solar photovoltaic technology. But the Silicon Valley Toxics...
- Tags: Photovoltaics, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-01-25
- DotNet Protector 5.4.3240 (Windows)
- DotNet Protector is a powerful .NET code protection system that prevents your assemblies from being decompiled. Console EXE, Windows EXE and Windows services, you can protect a whole application (main EXE, referenced DLLs) in a single executable file.
- Tags: Photovoltaics, PV Logiciels, DotNet Protector, Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-12-11
- Thin-film photovoltaics to generate $14 bln in 2015
- NanoMarkets projects that after a few lean years in 2009 and 2010 for the TFPV business higher growth rates will return in 2011. The firm’s analysis projects revenues of $4.6 bln in 2011 that will grow to just over $14 bln in 2015. by AM
- Tags: Photovoltaics, Manufacturing, AM
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- PV Drilling Automates Financial Reporting With Integrated System
- PV Drilling - PetroVietnam Drilling and Well Services Corporation - is a drilling contractor and provider of offshore drilling-related services. PV Drilling wanted to replace aging accounting platform with a standardized ERP solution managed from company headquarters and improve quality of financial information. PV Drilling engaged Oracle Certified Partner Pythis...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Oracle Corp., Financial, Photovoltaics, Manufacturing, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Case studies 2008-12-01
- Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technology
- It's midnight, do you know where your solar panel is? I read somewhere yesterday where thefts of solar panels are on the rise, no doubt due to the rather dear price that they still command. Hopefully, that's on a pace for change, given that many of us...
- Tags: Installation, Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- When will cleantech be profitable? How about Q2, 2008!
- The world's first solar power billionaire is on a role. Not in Silicon Valley or Spain or even solar-blessed Arizona. In China. The global gold medal winner in solar profits: Shi Zhengrong, head of Suntech Power. They make photovoltaics sold the world over. Free...
- Tags: China, Spain, Stock, Photovoltaics, Clean Technology, Suntech Power, Zhengrong, Manufacturing, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Are solar-energy materials in short supply?
- Are solar-energy materials in short supply?Need Ink ContractsImprovements in solar photovoltaic sources of materials brings to my mind the need of inks that will allow painting your own photovoltaics in colorful designs and patterns stressing advertising as much as is possible to enliven the circles of users. Inks of N-type...
- Tags: Manufacturing, photovoltaics
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- California greenlights two renewable energy development projects
- Southern California Edison has received the thumbs-up from the California Public Utilities Commission to contract to buy clean energy from two new alternative energy projects. The first, the Granite Wind development in San Bernardino County, will see the construction of a 41-megawatt wind farm slated to come...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, California, Photovoltaics, Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New World
- The high tech gear needed to turn out precision solar panels. Courtesy Oerlikon. Oerliklon is a venerable corporation among the Alps, publicly-traded on the Zurich stock exchange for a long time. They manufacture precision machine tools, textile equipment, other traditional industrial products. But they're...
- Tags: Photovoltaics, Oerliklon, Chris O'Brien, Oerlikon, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- High-tech trifecta dabbles in solar technology
- What is it with high-tech giants and solar energy research and development? Apparently, as it turns out, many of the same manufacturing and design ideas that people have been applying to computer systems and microprocessor technology matter in the world of solar. Intel is the third huge...
- Tags: Solar Energy, Transistor, Photovoltaics, Microprocessor, Technology, IBM Corp., Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Toddler finds way to really green solar: turning green plants into photovoltaics
- Toddler finds way to really green solar: turning green plants into photovoltaicsHow is glass not renewable? :)I get plastic, but *glass*?Editing is good...What? You haven't heard?You haven't heard about the current sand shortage? (Oh...it's not about oil...its about a supply of sand!?). But seriously...yeah, you're right - glass...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Toddler, photovoltaics
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Toddler finds way to really green solar: turning green plants into photovoltaics
- The sandwich of materials that is today's solar panel. Courtesy: Biosolar. Biosolar's a toddler chronologically, just turned two years old in April. But they're already publicly traded and they could stand tall in the expanding field of photovolataics, making electricity from the sun....
- Tags: Panel, Dr., Photovoltaics, Biosolar, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Red Hat's PV drivers boosts performance of Windows, older Linux guests on Xen-based RHEL 5
- Red Hat has significantly sped up the performance of Windows and Linux guests running on its Xen-based Red Hat Enterprise 5 platform. The Raleigh, NC software company released on May 20 paravirtualized drivers that significantly improve the performance of older Red Hat Enterprise 3 and 4 workloads...
- Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux, Performance, Red Hat Inc., Photovoltaics, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Xen, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Images: Supersize solar power
- Utility-scale solar power plants--using everything from giant reflective dishes to plastic balloons--are changing the look of solar power.Parabolic troughs, one of which is shown here, have been around for 25 years, and the technology will be around for at least another 25. Parabolic troughs reflect sunlight to heat liquid carried...
- Tags: Electricity, Solar Energy, Trough, Photovoltaics, Plant, mW, Solar Power Plant, Arizona Public Service, BrightSource Energy, Concentrator, Stirling Engine Systems, Infinia, It', SolFocus, What', Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-26
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