This topic covers solar panels and other types of solar energy generators. Light and heat from the sun can be stored in multiple ways.
Abound Solar is setting up manufacturing facilities with loan guarantees provided by the federal government. The Recovery Act provides funding for construction to several firms which produce solar cells on a large scale. According to the governor of Colorado, the manufacturing plant locations are in Lakewood, Colorado as well as Tipton, Indiana. The Tipton site […]
Carbon capture using solar power can now potentially remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, using a process, STEP, which the scientist Dr. Stuart Licht describes in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. This journal isn’t available to the public but supporting information is available under open access. Lithium is not the only material which […]
Electric cars are a sustainable alternative to petroleum powered cars, since electric cars do not need a constant supply of gasoline or diesel to fuel them. One of the major issues with powering electric cars is the sustainability of their power supply, as charging an electric vehicle from a wall socket likely means that the […]
Researching the Solana plant led me to a Senate report on solar power generation. Big box retailers such as Walmart, Target, and Best Buy have huge stores, many of which are located in the hot Southwest. Some of these stores have large quantities of food which must be refrigerated, and they may also air condition […]
In the desert of Arizona, a large new solar plant is under construction. According to its builder, the Spanish firm Abengoa, this will be the largest solar installation in the world, a 280 MW project which will begin construction in 2011 and reach completion in 2014. There are larger projects under construction in China although […]
Solyndra is a Bay Area company that is in the news for manufacturing solar power modules. The Department of Energyis guaranteeing a $535 million loan to support its solar power technology. According to the Department of Energy, this is the first project that the federal government is backing under the Department of Energy loan guarantee […]
Solar power is a renewable source of energy that provides great potential returns. Nonrenewable energy sources such as oil and coal provide power stored by plants that originally gained their energy from the sun. These sources may be running out, but the sun itself will continue burning for a long time. One of the main […]
Recently some Spanish business organizations have questioned the reports of Spanish companies that reported solar power production at night. They thought it might be fraud, although there are ways of generating solar power at night. An article by Business Week reported this story. The business group ASIF demanded an investigation. There actually are ways to […]
Recently, researchers at the University of Cincinnati made a major breakthrough in artificial photosynthesis. A foam structure based on the foams frogs produce to lay their eggs was used as a structure to hold photosynthetic chemicals. These photosynthetic reagents are taken from biological sources such as plant leaves and fungi. The advantage of using this […]
I have seen a lot of technologies based on nature recently. The axiom always said not to reinvent the wheel, so why would we attempt to do this when creating sustainable business? Anything that powers a living organism has been shaped by evolution over many years. Because of the competitive pressures in any environment, superfluous […]