A new poll by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) shows that 75 percent of Americans favor utility-scale solar on public lands that are not protected as preserves of some kind.  This comes after extensive questioning by conservation groups of the true ecological impact that large solar fields would have on the ecosystem they are [...]

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Cun-Zeng Ning and Alian Pan, from Arizona State University, have discovered and fabricated the first quaternary semiconductor nanowire materials, by alloying two binary semiconductors (ZnS + CdSe) - Zinc Sulfide and Cadmium Selenide, and obtained ZnCdSSe.

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A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have just discovered that crystals of zinc oxide, if submerged, absorb its vibrations and act like a piezoelectric material, developing areas of strong negative and positive charges.

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A Minnesota-based invention company called Sage Electrochromics, Inc has received a financial loan of $103 million from the Department of Energy for it’s breakthrough glass innovation, a window that can be switched on or off to reject up to 98% of the sun’s heat and light on a push of a button.

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First Solar Inc. has recently announced that it will start working on a huge photovoltaic project called Desert Sunlight in Southern California. The facility will produce 550 MW from solar power, of which 300 MW will be sold to California’s Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and 250 MW to Southern California Edison (SCE).

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