Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
The search for space-based solar power has advanced because of a recent technological breakthrough - wireless transmission of solar energy across long distances.
The idea behind space-based solar power (SSP) is simple: Build massive collector plates in space, where the sun never sets, in constant orbit of the Earth. The ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
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Cooley Godward, a Silicon Valley-based law firm, completed construction of an 87 kilowatt solar electric system on its 130,000 square-foot office building in Palo Alto. The system is the largest system for any Bay Area law firm and the third largest solar installation in Palo Alto. Cooley Godward, which has ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
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Map of World's Solar Energy Resources
The U.S. Department of the Interior wants to kill solar power exactly where solar power is most promising - southwestern United States. The BLM manages more land – 258 million surface acres – than any other Federal agency. Most of this public land is ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
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This composite image shows the fraction of the photosynthetically available radiation that was absorbed by land vegetation for photosynthesis in the continental United States during the period March 24-April 8, 2000. The image shows the proportion of sunlight actually absorbed by plants versus the total available energy in those wavelengths ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
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A solar flare erupts on the surface of the sun.
In 1979, a massive jolt of solar energy particles smashed into the Skylab space station, throwing the unprepared station into the Earth's atmosphere and raining debris over the Indian Ocean and parts of western Australia. In 1989, a much ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
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Click Maps Separately for Higher Resolution
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
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The capital of all things crunchy, San Francisco, Cal., will reduce taxes for property owners who install solar photovoltaic power systems. The taxable solar incentives will range from $6,000 for residences, $10,000 for businesses and non-profits, and $30,000 for nonprofit affordable housing.
San Francisco, which currently has less than ...
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