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West Oakland is a sprawling industrial area that’s probably better known as the birth place of so much of the pyrotechnic art seen at Burning Man. However, amidst the smell of burning butane and steel girders at American Steel Studios, a green space designer named Nick Gardner is working to plant a vertical garden across part of a wall at the six-acre factory. The project will not only feature 2,000 square foot patch of succulents, but also a rainwater fed irrigation system, as well as array of solar panels to make the entire system sustainable.
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When we first heard about the Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large Phased Array (SPS-ALPHA) – a proposed flower shaped solar power energy collector that beams down concentrated microwave energy back to Earth – it sounded absolutely preposterous. Now in a recent interview with Motherboard, John Mankins, a NASA veteran from Artemis Innovation Management Solutions, divulged some more details on exactly how the world’s first practical orbital solar plant will work when it hopefully launches by 2025.
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As South Africa works to generate 17,800 MW of renewable energy by 2030, Spanish firm Abengoa is installing two concentrating solar power plants in the Northern Cape that will contribute 150 MW of solar to the region. One of those plants, the Khi Solar One, just reached a major milestone towards its completion as officials celebrated the installation of the concentrating solar power plant’s (CSP’s) 205-meter-tall superheated steam solar tower.
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One in five houses in South Australia already has a rooftop solar array, and 27 percent of the region’s power is derived from wind energy. New figures released last week by the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) predict that thanks to new sources of wind and solar power in development, the area could source half of its energy from renewables within the decade. This would make South Australia the first industrialized region to achieve such an accomplishment, surpassing other green-power giants like Denmark and Germany.
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North Carolina State University researchers have developed a new way of connecting stacked solar cells that is strong enough to handle the energy of 70,000 suns. The innovation will help prevent voltage losses at the connecting junctions, which will make solar cells more efficient while lowering the cost of solar energy production.
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Israeli financial daily Globes recently reported that the Middle Eastern nation’s parliament is planning to install solar energy panels on the roof of its legislative building. The Knesset, located in Israel’s capital of Jerusalem, will be one of the world’s first parliaments to generate its electricity from the sun in 2014. The renewable energy initiative follows the announcement from the Obama Administration in August that 20 to 50 photovoltaic panels will be installed on the roof of the White House.
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In just two weeks 19 teams of brilliant students from across the states and around the world will compete to build the most efficient solar-powered house in the 2013 Solar Decathlon! So far we’ve featured each of this year’s projects, and the Department of Energy just launched a great infographic that shines a bit more light on this year’s teams and the competition as a whole. Check out the full infographic after the jump, and stay tuned from October 3-13 as Inhabitat reports live from Irvine, California on this year’s Solar Decathlon.
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A team comprised of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center, Berlin has just unveiled the world’s most efficient solar cell! Boasting an efficiency of 44.7%, the cell breaks the record set by Sharp just three months ago by 0.3%. The four-junction photovoltaic cell is not only dramatically more efficient than the theoretical 33.7% efficiency limit of conventional silicon-based solar PV, but puts the team well on the road to reaching their goal of 50% efficiency by 2015.
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India will soon be home to the largest solar plant in the world! Developed in partnership between government and state-owned companies, the new plant in Rajasthan will pump out 4,000 MW of clean energy for western India. The first phase alone will generate 1,000 MW of solar power when complete – that’s 10 times more energy than any exiting solar plant in India.
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The much-anticipated Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System has kicked into action in California’s Mojave Desert. The 3,500 acre facility forms the world’s largest solar thermal energy plant, and has the backing of some major players; Google, NRG Energy, BrightSource Energy and Bechtel have all invested in the project, which is constructed on federally-leased public land. The first of Ivanpah’s three towers is now feeding power into the grid, and once the site is fully operational it will produce 392 megawatts — enough to power 140,000 homes and reduce carbon emissions by 400,000 tons per year.
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Nokero Solar’s affordable new N180 and N222 solar light bulbs bring off-the-grid lighting to a new audience. Ridiculously easy to use, these bulbs charge up with a built-in solar panel and provide hours of power and light in any situation. The innovative bulb is great for many situations, including disaster relief and camping, and even replace kerosene lights in impoverished nations.
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This week the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Vote Solar released their second annual Solar Means Business report, which ranks the top brands in the U.S. based on their installation of solar power at their warehouses, stores and facilities. This year’s top solar installers include Apple, Ikea, and Wal Mart, and the report states that more than one out of every three Americans – 117 million people – live within 20 miles of at least one of those 1,000 installations. Check out the infographic after the break for a closer look!
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