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Sierra College gets grant for solar installation training
If SUNY Cantons 4-year alternative energy degree (or any others offered by other schools) doesnt float your boat, you might be interested in this: (From bizjournals.com) Sierra College has been awarded a $470,000 grant to develop a training program for solar panel installers. The California Commun …
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Solar Powered Hydrogen Fuel Station
This is really cool. Hopefully more of it will be adopted in the future: (from mercurynews.com) Solar-powered hydrogen fuel station opens despite cutbacks The Associated Press Article Launched: 04/01/2008 11:24:23 AM PDT var requestedWidth = 0; …
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Solar Stocks On The Rise
From Forbes.com, 2hrs ago. Associated Press Opening Glance: Solar Stocks Rise Associated Press 04.02.08, 9:57 AM ET Solar-power stocks rose sharply Wednesday morning, with investors optimistic about the industrys expansion as a solar-power conference kicked off in Munich, Germany.News from T …
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Solar Hot Water in the Adirondacks (and some windpower for good measure)
The girlfriend and I made a trip over to Burlington, VT on Tuesday, and then crossed back over the lake into NY to stay at her sisters house for the night. On the drive over to Burlington I got some pictures out the window of the car of some of the huge wind turbines they have been putting up along …
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Designing a Solar Heated Structure (Part Two)
Alright, I know it has been a while, but here is the second installment of the Designing a Solar Heated Structure series I promised Id write. As Ive said before, I am a rank amatuer, and am not claiming to be certified, highly experienced, or anything else. I am merely offering my opinions, and care …
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BBC Article: “The pros and cons of solar power”
I just found this BBC Article called The pros and cons of solar power and thought Id share. By Maggie Ayre BBC Radio 4 Costing the Earth …
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Fat Spaniel Technologies - Monitoring for Renewable Energy Systems
Fat Spaniel Technologies has an online monitoring and reporting service for renewable energy systems. This is really cool. They have a huge list of sites that are monitored, and you can expand each one to get more details. Each site listed has a simple and detail view. The Simple interface shows ho …
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“The Power of The Sun”
My physics professor let us watch most of a movie called The Power of The Sun yesterday in class. I found the website for the movie at the Univerity of California, Santa Barbaras homepage. It seems the movie is intended for educational use, but nobody said you had to be in school to learn things. He …
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Researchers Make a Substance That Absorbs 99.9% of Light
Here is a win for us solar heating folks From News.com.au : Black is the new black in science?? By Julie Steenhuysen in Chicago January 16, 2008 10:40am US researchers say they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9 per cent of light. Made from tiny t …
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Solar Stocks Regaining Losses
Just found another one for all of you solar investment buffs; Forbes has an article up today about solar stocks regaining losses Sector Snap: Solar Stocks Regain Losses Associated Press 01.17.08, 2:01 PM ET NEW YORK - Investors sent solar-power stocks higher on Thursday, seeing the recent sell-o …
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$1 per watt solar panels
Found this on Slashdot today: A Silicon Valley start-up called Nanosolar has shipped its first solar panels ??? priced at $1 a watt. Thats the price at which solar energy gets cheaper than coal. While other companies have been focusing their efforts on increasing the efficiency of solar panels, Nano …
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Designing a Solar Heated Structure (Part One)
Apologies for the stagnation of the Solar Cabin construction. While I lay in waiting for materials and capital, I have been doing lots of design work. As I was running through calculations and doing research, I realized how daunting this might be for many people looking to approach this from a Do-It …
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Paypal Donations
Well folks, first donation was a cool $10 (THANKS!) As soon as the money is transferred (paypal says it will be 4 days) I will get my new hosting set up, and solardiy will be solar powered! Thanks again, I will try to add as much content as possible over the next few days but keep in mind that next …
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Solar Investing
There have been some interesting news articles regarding solar related stock prices in the past few days. I took a look at them and had some thoughts to share. To start: Solar-product stocks rose Friday as analysts upgraded shares and lifted profit estimates for companies on expectations of more pol …
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Designing a Solar Heated Structure
Apologies for the stagnation of the Solar Cabin construction. While I lay in waiting for materials and capital, I have been doing lots of design work. As I was running through calculations and doing research, I realized how daunting this might be for many people looking to approach this from a Do-It …
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“Calif. billboard lights message with solar power”
From xinhuanet.com: BEIJING, Dec. 5 (Xinhuanet) Following in the footsteps of billboards in Canada and Africa, a California electricity provider says it installed Americas first solar-powered billboard that makes more electricity than it uses. billboard topped off with 20 solar panels is loc …
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Paypal Donate
You may have noticed that a paypal donate button has popped up in the upper-right corner of the site.. I am trying to move from my friends gracious free hosting, where my welcome is quickly running out, to one of many green web hosts but I need this site to kind of pay for itself until I finish up s …
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Google Solar Panel Project
Google has a very cool page up detailing their solar panel project at the site has performance graphs for 24hours, and 7days, and also gives you raw numbers (kilowatt-hours) for the last 24 hours, last 7 days, and since June 18, 2007 when the project began. As of the writing of this article they hav …
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Solar Power Forum
Ive been browsing around over at the Solar Power Forum for the past hour or so, and have found some great posts I thought Id share with you all.. Battery Charging Basics Discussion regarding charging electric cars with PV arrays Are there pros and cons to solar energy? Wiring Inverter to a Step-Up T …
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Generating Electricity With Heat From the Sun
Ive been doing some research while it is rainy out, regarding generating electricity with heat from the sun.. There are lots of ways to generate electricity from heat, but for the most part they dont seem cost-effective for the do-it-yourselfer to piece together. As far as the actual semiconductor y …
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