A lot of apprehension is circling the solar industry right now as Germany considers cutting its lucrative solar power incentives in 2010. A predetermined 10 percent cut automatically took effect at…
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First Utility-Scale Solar Plant on U.S. Tribal Lands
Posted in January 22nd, 2010
55 million acres of land in the United States are controlled by Native American tribes. Those lands hold within them the potential for roughly 535 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of wind energy per year…
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Beam-Down Solar Concentrator Dramatically Reduces Costs at Price of Efficiency
Posted in January 22nd, 2010
by Ovidiu in Solar Power
By seeking to cut costs with the production of energy and building the necessary infrastructure, scientists from the Masdar Institute along with their colleagues from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and Cosmo Oil (?) are studying how to convert old, expensive solar concentrator technology to a new and more flexible one: The Beam Down Project.
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