Solar

Colorado State University Apparel Design

Students Developing Natural Clothing with Built-in Solar Power Chargers

Posted on May, 2012 Categories: Consumer , Energy , Energy Savings , Featured , Leisure , Parks & Recreation , Solar Colorado State University apparel design and production researchers and students are working to develop natural-fiber outdoor clothing that can charge MP3 devices, tablets, computers, GPS units and cell phones with built-in Read more
Solar pANEL

Survey of Over 100 Solar Manufacturers Reveal Best Industry Practices

Posted on April, 2012 Categories: Business , Energy , Featured , Solar A new report  highlights the best practices of photovoltaic (PV) manufacturers to protect workers and the environment during the production of solar panels. It also analyzes investor considerations regarding environmental, Read more
University of Arkansas

Solar-Powered Runway Anti-icing System

Posted on January, 2012 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Energy , Featured , Public Transit , Solar , Transportation Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas are developing an anti-icing system that could make airport runways safer and less expensive to maintain during winter months. The approach uses a conventional photovoltaic system Read more
NREL Solar Cell

Tiny Solar Cell Could Make a Big Difference

Posted on January, 2012 Categories: Business , Check It Out! , Energy , Featured , Solar How small can a solar cell be and still be a powerhouse?  How about six hundred microns wide — about the diameter of a dot made by a ballpoint pen? Read more
Solar

US Solar Confidence Survey - The Results Are In

Posted on December, 2011 Categories: Business , Energy , Solar Recently, 35,000 solar professionals from the solar and finance communities were invited to take part in asurvey to assess industry confidence for 2012 in the US. Read more
Grid

With Changes, the Grid Can Take It

Posted on December, 2011 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Electric Vehicles , Energy , Featured , Geothermal , Infrastructure , Smart Grid , Solar , Transportation , Wind Over the next two decades, the U.S. electric grid will face unprecedented technological challenges stemming from the growth of distributed and intermittent new energy sources such as solar and wind power, as well as an expected influx Read more
Renewables

How To Maintain Renewable Energy’s Rapid Growth

Posted on November, 2011 Categories: Biofuels , Building Green , Business , Energy , Fuel Cells , Geothermal , Infrastructure , Solar , Wind Renewables are now the fastest-growing sector of the energy mix and offer great potential to address issues of energy security and sustainability, but their rapid deployment is also bringing a host of challenges. Read more
Unplug

Students Living Green in Campus Houses

Posted on October, 2011 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Energy , Energy Savings , Featured , Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning (HVAC) , Solar , Water Management , Wind The houses at 138 and 146 W. Foulke Ave. on the campus of The University of Findlay, Ohio, may look like “normal” student residences, but the students living in those houses chose to live there with a common goal to reduce energy consumption and to lower their carbon footprints. Read more
sunlight

New technology Uses Solar UV to Disinfect Drinking Water

Posted on September, 2011 Categories: Check It Out! , Communities , Energy , Featured , Solar , Water Management A team of Purdue University researchers has invented a prototype water-disinfection system that could help the world's 800 million people who lack safe drinking water. Read more
Washington D.C.

Winners of the First Green Power Community Challenge

Posted on September, 2011 Categories: Biofuels , Communities , Energy , Featured , Fuel Cells , Geothermal , Solar , Wind The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced the communities of Washington, D.C. and Brookeville, Md. as winners of the first Green Power Community Challenge. Read more
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