DOW is beginning to market its new solar shingles. They can be integrated into the standard-sized asphalt shingle roofs common over much of America. The DOWâ„¢ POWERHOUSEâ„¢ Solar Shingles are photovoltaic solar panels in the form of shingles. The groundbreaking technology from Dow Solar Solutions DSS...
There's an Aspen, Colordao, home with 16-inch thick walls. The house uses plenty of passive solar energy as well photovoltaic cells. It is a "smart house" with constant monitoring of energy use, light, solar input. The owner plans to put real-time data from the sensors onto the...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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