Posted on February 18th, 2008 by admin
Cool Earth Solar balloons upon first glance may be likened to something one would find at a kid’s birthday party. But, the Cool Earth Solar balloons are anything but toys and definitely not for children.
Cool Earth Solar has just received $21 million in funding from private investors to develop their solar concentrator balloons. The Livermore, [...]
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Posted on January 17th, 2008 by admin
SolFocus, from Mountain View, California now has a plain view in focus in Spain. SolFocus is constructing a 500 kw concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) system as part of the Spanish ISFOC (Spain’s Institute of Concentration Photovoltaic Systems) project.
The Solfocus CPV systems uses lenses and mirrors to focus sunlight on solar cells making for a more intense [...]
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Posted on December 11th, 2007 by admin
IBM used to throw away up to 3 million silicon chips a year, but no more. The engineers at the Burlington, Vermont facility have found a way to scrub the ultra-pure silicon from the chips in an environmentally friendly manner and either reuse them or sell the chips to photovoltaic companies to use in solar [...]
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