Tag: solar
member name: Sam Carana
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September 13, 2007 12:35 AM EDT --
How much surface does it take to supply solar energy? The image accompanying this article shows how much surface needs to be covered in theory by solar power facilities to generate enough electricity . . .
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September 18, 2009 04:03 AM EDT --
First Solar has reached a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Chinese government to build a 2 gigawatt solar power plant in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China.
The facilities will cover 25 square . . .
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February 18, 2008 01:12 AM EST --
As we all know, we should end the practices of burning forests and clearing land for farming, for urban expansion and for road construction. Big companies are often blamed for this, but what's often . . .
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April 01, 2008 01:10 AM EDT --
Southern California Edison (SCE) on March 27, 2008, asked the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for approval to install photovoltaic solar panels on the rooftops of commercial buildings over . . .
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December 13, 2007 09:17 AM EST --
Friends! As we enter this new era, we face the giant task of transforming society, by changing the very fabric of our economy, all in a mere decade. That fabric is energy, currently supplied largely . . .
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October 06, 2008 03:56 AM EDT --
Last month, Hawaii received $1.7 million in grants to modernize its electric grids to accommodate an influx of renewable energy, with an eye toward electric cars.
Why Hawaii? The geothermal power . . .
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May 28, 2009 09:21 AM EDT --
What will power your next car? Will it be gasoline, diesel, perhaps mixed with biofuel? Or will it be electricity? In case electricity will power your next car, how will it be produced? From coal, natural . . .
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February 16, 2008 06:41 AM EST --
For more than a year, a panel of 18 engineers, technologists and futurists looked at ways to improve life on Earth. They came up with 14 Grand Engineering Challenges , featured at the National Academy . . .
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December 05, 2009 09:23 AM EST --
The Solar Impulse made its maiden flight on 3 December 2009, at Dübendorf Airfield in Switzerland. During a run down the runway, the plane was for the first time brought to takeoff speed (35 . . .
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May 04, 2008 09:41 PM EDT --
OptiSolar is developing a 550-megawatt photovoltaic solar farm on the northwestern corner of Carrisa Plains, some 100 miles north of Los Angeles. The project will produce enough electricity to power . . .
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December 15, 2009 05:32 AM EST --
A Plan for a Sustainable Future is the theme of the November 2009 issue of Scientific American. It contains A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables , by Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi, . . .
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April 10, 2008 08:37 AM EDT --
Black carbon has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing estimates, according to a review study in the journal Nature Geoscience .
According to the study, . . .
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September 29, 2007 03:56 AM EDT --
Last Friday, President George W. Bush urged delegates of the world's 16 biggest emitters of greenhouse gases to agree on an approach to deal with global warming. "By next summer, we will . . .
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April 24, 2008 01:32 AM EDT --
In discussions about global warming, many are reluctant to make 'the first move'. The coal industry points at figures by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), showing that coal accounted . . .
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October 25, 2007 08:12 PM EDT --
Combat Global Warming with Evaporative Cooling - by Sam Carana
To combat global warming, wind turbines along the coastline could be used for the dual purposes of generating electricity at times . . .
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February 22, 2008 02:12 AM EST --
The image on the right shows the Anderson Mill, in Travis County, Texas, which was built in the 1850s as a corn mill. Since ancient times, waterwheels and wind mills have been used to grind grain to produce . . .
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November 19, 2008 07:41 AM EST --
Extract: As we shift away from fossil fuel and as the number of wind turbines increases, more and more people are calling for a Supergrid - high capacity links carrying electricity between the major . . .
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March 10, 2009 09:30 PM EDT --
Climate Congress, Copenhagen, 10-12 March, 2009
Open letter to Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, IPCC chair
Dear Dr Pachauri,
The Climate Congress presents an important opportunity to present all facets . . .
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October 01, 2007 06:18 AM EDT --
Globally, wind power generation more than quadrupled between 2000 and 2006. But while wind power is making steady progress in Europe, the U.S. gets less than 1% of its electricity from wind power,
Spain . . .
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May 17, 2008 10:12 AM EDT --
World biodiversity has declined by almost one third in the past 35 years due mainly to habitat loss and the wildlife trade, according to a Reuters report on the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and . . .
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