solar power

HVDC: Piping in the Sun, to a City near you?

Posted Tue, 11/11/2008 - 21:15 by jamess



If only we could take all that Solar Energy baking the World's Deserts,


Bottle it up, (using modern technology),


and send it to the Metropolitan areas, that run on Energy.

All the Sun That's Fit to Print

Posted Tue, 09/23/2008 - 05:56 by rba
Kevin Bullis/TechReview: Efficient, Cheap Solar Cells:
A cheap new way to attach mirrors to silicon yields very efficient solar cells that don't cost much to manufacture. The technique could lead to solar panels that produce electricity for the average price of electricity in the United States.

Tuesday: Burned

Posted Tue, 12/11/2007 - 05:27 by rba
Michael Kanellos/CNET: Will taxes halt Calif.'s solar thermal ambitions? The House of Representatives passed a bill that would provide $21 billion in tax credits to the renewable industry and require utilities to increase their renewable portfolios to 15 percent. The Senate, however, rejected it, putting the credits in limbo. :: :: :: Sean Olender/SFGate: MORTGAGE MELTDOWN Interest rate 'freeze' - the real story is fraud [h/t to susie dow] :: :: :: Hoover's Horrors in the Senate present themselves as standing on a particular set of values. Kinda hard to do when those "values" are shadows on quicksand.