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Top 6 Sustainable Winter Resorts for Snowboarding and Skiing in the US
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Tesla Motors Releases Data Logs to Contradict Damning NY Times Model S Test...
Tesla Motors has released data logs that contradict claims made in a scathing New York Times test drive of the Model S electric sedan. In his review, Times writer John M. Broder claimed that the car...
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Envision Plans to Install 2,300 Rotating Solar Tree Car Shelters in South...
In the United States, we have paved over 160 billion square feet of land simply to provide places to park cars. Recognizing these asphalt areas as opportune places for energy generation,...
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Scientists Propose Launching Solar-Powered Lasers to Vaporize Incoming Asteroids
After an asteroid passed close to earth and a meteorite exploded over Russia last Friday, world leaders have renewed calls for defensive measures against threats from space. Two scientists at the...
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New Rammed Earth Southeast Wyoming Welcome Center Introduces Travelers to...
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Striking Solar Equinox Passive House Aligns With the Sun in Bulgaria
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New ‘Nano Shish Kebab’ Semiconductor Could Lead to Greater Solar Cell Efficiency
Researchers at North Carolina State University just made a nano shish kebab out of germanium sulfide (GeS) crystals – but it’s not for the world’s smallest barbecue. Instead, the first-of-its-kind...
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Solar Power Generation to Increase by 35 Times in Argentina
There is a good reason why Argentina’s flag sports a shining sun. At present, Argentina only produces about 10MW of solar power, but that figure is soon about to receive a giant boost as the country...
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India’s Anantapur District to Install 40,000 Solar Panels and Save $1 Million...
Southern India’s Anantapur District will be the first municipality in the country to use solar energy for street lighting and water pumping operations. The solar project, consisting of nearly 40,000...
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Saudi Arabia Announces Plans to Develop 54 GW of Renewable Energy
Photo via Shutterstock The kingdom of Saudi Arabia sits upon the world’s second-largest oil reserves, and as such, oil dominates the national economy. But in recent years, Saudi Arabia has begun taking...
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Off-Grid Stamp House is a Cyclone-Proof Home in North Queensland, Australia
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Solar-Powered Forever House: Dowdy Red Bricks Given New Life as a Slick...
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First Solar Sets a New Record for Thin-Film Solar Efficiency
Just last year, Republican lawmakers were trying to tarnish First Solar, Inc, because the Department of Energy provided loan guarantees to the company. But politics couldn’t sink the word’s largest...
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Quetsol CEO Lives in the Dark to Raise Funding for Pay-As-You-Go Solar Power...
In Guatemala, over half a million homes are without electricity. That means these families rely on candles or kerosene lamps to do homework, read or eat dinner at night. Quetsol, a renewable energy...
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Kia Opens Solar-Powered Car Dealership in South Africa
Car dealerships tend not to be the greenest of buildings; they’re typically located in strip-malls outside of town, and of course, they are made to hawk gas-guzzling vehicles. But Kia Motors is...
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Ubiquitous Energy Developing Transparent Stick-On Solar Cells that Can Power...
Tablet photo from Shutterstock Portable gadgets, like smartphones and tablets, have changed the way we consume information and communicate, but at this stage they all have one common flaw: they need to...
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Graphene-Based Solar Cells Could Yield 60% Efficiency
While silicon has long been the standard for commercial solar cells, new research from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Spain has shown that graphene could prove far more efficient when it...
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Lancaster, California to Require All New Homes to Have Solar Panels
Photo via Shutterstock We’ve heard of mandatory recycling and composting, but mandatory solar panels? Lancaster, California — a small city of about 150,000 people in the high desert near Los Angeles —...
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Ivanpah: The World’s Largest Solar Thermal Plant Passes First Solar Capacity...
The world’s largest solar thermal plant, Ivanpah, reached a major milestone this month as it achieved its first “flux”. Over 1000 heliostats (plane mirrors that reflect sunlight towards a...
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Off-Grid and Solar-Powered Isolée Retreat in Amsterdam Opens Like a Cupboard
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