SolarWorld has climbed on-board the new venture investment called Qatar Solar Technologies.  Headquartered in Qatar, this will be the first production facility for polysilicon technologies on the Arabian Peninsula.  The plant will have an annual production capacity of around 3,600 tons of high-purity polysilicon during its first stage in 2012.

This investment stems from a [...]

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Intertek is now offering a free white paper called, “Green” Revolution: What does it mean to the building products industry?  This paper covers the challenges manufacturers face when they make “green” claims about their products, and how to eliminate potential pitfalls in the process.  The paper stems from increased public scrutiny in the wake of [...]

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If you want to produce electricity using a river near your home, the best way you can do it is to build a small-scale hydroelectric generator. Often called as a low-impact hydro, micro-hydro or run-of-stream hydro generator, this system is not very hard to build.

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