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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 pane [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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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.  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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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.  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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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 he [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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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 [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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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,  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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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 A [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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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  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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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 insu [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Solar sails on cargo ships, this appears to be real

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"Late last month, the Australian Solar Sailor company announced they’d signed a deal with China's biggest shipping line, COSCO, to fit some of their jumbo jet sized solar-powered sails to a tanker and bulk carrier...  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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The Solar Powered Taxi (video)

Warning, you'll have to sit through an oil company ad for some reason. It's big and bulky but it proves that either someone has been lying to us or our technical policy is horrible.  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Adventurer is traveling around the world in solar car, zero gas

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(click [more] for pic) Inventor/adventurer Louis Palmer has put together a small vehicle that uses solar power and plugs in to an outlet at night. He is taking his vehicle around the world and talking about free energy. "More than a year after he se [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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