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Solar-Powered Plane Stays Aloft for 26 Hours - NYTimes.com

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PARIS — Slender as a stick insect, a solar-powered experimental airplane with a huge wingspan completed its first test flight of more than 24 hours on Thursday, powered overnight by energy collected from the sun during a day aloft over Switzerland.
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Apple out to patent solar touch screen - ZDNet

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A recently surfaced patent application, spotted by Patently Apple, shows that Apple employees filed a patent for a technology to embed solar cells under the touch screens of handheld devices.
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the open source washing machine project | openMaterials

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The challenge was to make a DIY washing machine using only materials available in the sahara. The prototype shown above uses bicycle parts (the tires and wheel), bamboo, and a solar panel connected directly to a recycled electric motor (from a photocopier).
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The Wally WHY: A $160 Million Solar Powered Mega Yacht

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It’s called the “Wally WHY 58x38” – the latter a nod to the luxurious amount of space provided by its 38 meters in width and 58 meters in length. The guilt-free portion is represented by more than 9,687.5 square feet (900 meters) of solar panels, converting what would otherwise be sinfully luxurious to something whose profile, and footprint, is eminently “green”, at least in environmental terms.
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Massive Mojave solar project gets $1.4 billion loan guarnatee

The Energy Department on Monday announced a "conditional" $1.4 billion loan guarantee for a solar thermal power complex in the Mojave Desert that would ultimately produce as much as 392 megawatts of electricity.
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Solar Panel Drops to $1 per Watt

A long-sought solar milestone was eclipsed on Tuesday, when Tempe, Ariz.–based First Solar Inc. announced that the manufacturing costs for its thin-film photovoltaic panels had dipped below $1 per watt for the first time.
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Inside the U. Mich's Sun-Powered Car

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The car I’m sitting in is so futuristic and so technically advanced that it would cost nearly a million dollars to duplicate. Yet this Jet Propulsion Lab on wheels lacks the basic features of even the humblest sedan: a radio, roll-down windows, a heater. I had to slither between the rails of a roll cage to access a cockpit so cramped that it feels as though I’m sitting upright in a Niagara Falls barrel.
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Easy To Install Solar Panels Are City Friendly and Affordable

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Solar start-up Veranda Solar wants to change the world of solar power the way Apple changed computers. Veranda got a big head-start on financing the start-up when the company was awarded 100,000€ as runner-up in the PICNIC Green Challenge, funded by the Dutch postcode lottery. The solar panels Veranda uses are nothing special. The prototypes were developed in cooperation with Stanford University and SunPower Corp. No new photovoltaic advances, no biomimicry.
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Cleantech Revenues Soar 50% To $116 Billion In 08

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Just as we put the finishing touches on a post denouncing the possiblity of a green bubble, this Clean Energy Trends report from Clean Edge report falls into our lap, digitally. In it, Clean Edge says that "global revenues for solar photovoltaics, wind power, and biofuels expanded from $75.8 billion in 2007 to $115.9 billion in 2008." And "global investments in energy technologies—including venture capital, project finance, public markets, and research and development—expanded by 4.7 percent from $148.4 billion in 2007 to $155.4 billion."
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Spray-on solar panels developed

SYDNEY: Taking a leaf from the beauty industry, scientists have devised a way to make solar panels cheaper and more efficient - by spraying them on. Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU), in Canberra, solar company Spark Solar Australia, and Finnish materials company Braggone Oy are collaborating on a three-year project that could transform the production of solar cells.
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Report: Toyota secretly developing solar powered car

TOKYO (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp. is secretly developing a vehicle that will be powered solely by solar energy in an effort to turn around its struggling business with a futuristic ecological car, a top business daily reported Thursday. The Nikkei newspaper, however, said it will be years before the planned vehicle will be available on the market. Toyota's offices were closed Thursday and officials were not immediately available for comment.
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Vatican Closer To Being Powered Entirely By The Lord

The Vatican wants to be the first "carbon neutral" state, which ought to be rather easy considering it's rather tiny. In order to do this the Pope is installing $1.5 million worth of solar panels to power the Holy See. Anything less, would be "an insult to God."
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