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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
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A team of Chinese researchers have reached a new record of 8.2% light conversion efficiency in solvent-free dye-sensitized solar cells, according to a paper that appeared online today in the journal Nature Materials.
Dye-sensitized solar cell technology is a promising alternative to expensive silicon solar cells. The dye-sensitized cells mimic natural ...
Posted in China, Clean Tech Lifecycles, Environmental Finance, Industry News, Photovoltaics, Research Trends, Solar Energy, green technology | No Comments »
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
The Bureau of Land Management's decision to suspend U.S. solar energy projects until it completes an environmental review will make it impossible to transmit solar energy from power plants to end users in the southwest. The maps below show BLM owned land in the southwestern United States with validated solar-energy ...
Posted in Clean Tech Lifecycles, Concentrated-Solar, Eco-Efficiency, Electricity, Environmental Finance, Environmental Sustainability, Industry News, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research Trends, Solar Energy, Solar-Thermal, green technology, map | 1 Comment »
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
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Map of Promising Sites for Wind Power
The Bureau of Land Management eclipsed the promise of solar energy in the United States yesterday. The tragic fate of the U.S. wind power industry in the 1980s illustrates how the BLM's decision will impact the still embryonic U.S. solar energy industry.
U.S. Windpower, the ...
Posted in Clean Tech Lifecycles, Concentrated-Solar, Industry News, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research Trends, Solar Energy, Solar-Thermal, Start-ups, Venture Capital, map | 1 Comment »
Friday, June 27th, 2008
The Bureau of Land Management said it will suspend all new solar energy projects on federal land for the next two years until it completes an environmental impact review. As discussed briefly in the preceding post, the BLM holds the country's most valuable sites in terms of solar energy ...
Posted in Clean Tech Lifecycles, Concentrated-Solar, Environmental Finance, Graphic, Industry News, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Solar Energy, Solar-Thermal, green technology, map | 4 Comments »
