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Toshiba moves into solar-power business
News The company's industrial and energy arm plans to build utility-scale solar power plants. Toshiba's photovoltaics business will be part of the conglomerate's Transmission Distribution & Industrial Systems business, which makes equipment for natural...
[January 6, 2009, 8:52]
Concentrated Solar Power
Talkback I fully agree with the writer that CSP can be only way out for us today. It can ensure us with clean drinking water and food security and can provide us with environment friendly source of energy. I wonder why our political, scientific and economic...
[May 18, 2008, 14:58]
Built-in solar power will never be the answer
Talkback There are a number of practical barriers to having solar cells on devices: They only work during daylight hours, and only if you're outside or by a window; You have to keep your device out in the open, which isn't always possible or desirable; You...
[August 18, 2009, 16:46]
Solis Energy develops solar-powered Wi-Fi
News Someday, you might hook up to the internet through solar power. It also sells a product to run streetlights on solar power. Several US state governments are pushing for increased use of solar energy to cut power consumption and curb greenhouse-gas...
[August 28, 2007, 11:37]
More solar flares warm satellite concerns
News The sun has erupted in a series of major solar flares for the second time in less than a week, producing geomagnetic storms that could threaten satellites, power grids and communications networks. Many satellites rely at least partially on solar...
[October 30, 2003, 9:25]
IBM uses liquid metal to boost solar-cell efficiency
News Computing giant IBM is in the process of developing technology that generates solar power more efficiently, aided by a liquid-metal cooling process. IBM said that solar energy could be used to generate power on a commercial scale, provided that low...
[May 16, 2008, 13:20]
'Solar' breakthrough reveals green ambitions
Blog MIT Energy Storage Discovery Could Lead To "Unlimited" Solar Power! Solar power has always been a limited, far-off solution. Now, we can seriously think about solar power as unlimited and soon. Which in turn could make domestic solar power more...
[October 26, 2008, 12:29]
Green Power
White Papers Once relegated to farm windmills and solar heaters for swimming pools, green power is emerging as a viable energy source for businesses. When a company purchases green power from an energy provider, the power it receives is not directly connected.
[November 19, 2008, 23:00]
Solar server farm
Blog Solar power may be a viable solution to power problems in countries which get a lot of sun, but it would take a very efficient set of solar panels to make a dent in the British Isles' datacentre power needs.
[October 4, 2007, 17:19]
Solar-powered mesh project helps find new frog
News We have lots of mesh networks where the occasional inaccessible mesh box gets power by solar or wind or replaceable battery, but this entire centre is powered by solar electricity. The fact that this centre in the middle of the jungle is able to...
[October 6, 2006, 15:35]
An end to recharging for mobile phones
News The plan is to replace rechargeable batteries in mobile devices with a miniature version of the hydrogen fuel cell used to power electric cars, and recharge it with a super-efficient solar cell built into the devices.
[April 18, 2001, 14:25]
Sunshine power out of my ass
Blog The first is the big one - orbiting solar power. If you make a big power generating satellite and stick it in orbit, you have some huge advantages: no clouds, no permanent ground-based system changing the environment (I know that rockets are bad...
[October 11, 2007, 12:58]
Hello Dolly! Hurricane Preparations
Blog Comment A single panel doesn't really amount to nearly enough power for serious work. In other words powering a circular saw or other power tool in case I have to put my mediocre carpentry skills to use. So solar cell arrays make sense at least technically.
[August 1, 2008, 9:11]
Radioactive laptops? Perhaps not...
Blog This is a way of generating electricity much as solar cells generate power from photons, only by using high energy electrons generated from the beta decay of certain radio-isotopes. Here's a story that's doing the rounds on the blogs - Scientists...
[October 2, 2007, 12:09]
A DC-based culture is growing.
Blog Comment If I can drop my AC power bill $50 a month for the next 20 years by dedicating a solar panel, battery and charger to power selected appliances in my house. If you've never bought an incandescent light bulb in your life, an LED based light makes...
[January 26, 2009, 16:30]
Inveneo Computing Station review
Reviews A standard keyboard and an optical mouse are included, and the entire system can run off 12V DC — from a solar panel or car battery, or from the auto-voltage-sensing external power brick. The entire system, which can use solar power if necessary...
[February 19, 2008, 11:41]
Flying the Google flag for good causes
News It plans to invest directly in technologies such as solar-thermal power, wind power and geothermal systems. It launched a program to convert company cars to plug-in hybrids, and it has the largest corporate installation of solar-powered electricity.
[November 30, 2007, 13:48]
Microsoft vs. Google: Who's greener?
News The panels, believed to be part of the largest solar power system in Silicon Valley, generate 480 kilowatts of power at peak capacity - enough energy to power 500 homes - and provide about 15 percent of the campus's total energy, said George Koshy...
[June 6, 2006, 15:40]
Uptake of solar-charged mobile devices 'limited'
News To meet "a significant portion" of the power requirements of full-feature modern mobile devices, the solar panels would have to be larger than the devices, which makes portability more problematic. Due to their power limitations, integrated solar...
[August 18, 2009, 8:39]
'Green' IT: A feasible proposition?
News Solar Data Centres was started about five years ago, when May acquired a small Web-hosting company called Solar Host that used photovoltaic cells to power about 12 servers. A village in India has launched a project to power PCs with solar panels...
[September 27, 2004, 17:05]
