solar panels
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“Tiny buses for everyone!” says Elon Musk
Tesla has a new master plan, now that everything else is going so well.
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Obama tries to revive a grassroots solar program
Now it should be easier for homeowners to put panels on their roofs.
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Tesla wants to be your renewable energy everything
Elon Musk wants to buy SolarCity, but Wall Street's not having it.
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China built a giant solar field in a desert
From space, China's massive new solar farm is an impressive sight.
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Say g’day to Australia’s awesome new solar plant
Australia combines two of our favorite things: Solar power and wastewater treatment facilities.
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A plan to get solar headed in the right direction — literally
It’s OK to discriminate on orientation when it comes to solar panels. West is best.
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Who’s Your Energy Daddy?
For now it remains large, investor-owned utilities, and ostensibly locally-focused rural cooperatives and municipal utilities. But the energy landscape of today gives me uncomfortable reminders of the Athenian tragedy by Sophocles – the Oedipus tale. John Farrell, ILSR’s Director of Democratic Energy, gave this panel presentation at the 23rd annual conference of the Society for Environmental Journalists […]
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Spray-on solar windows use teeny tiny solar cells to capture energy
If the Internet has taught us anything, it is that everything is better when it is smaller. Kittens are better than cats. Cake pops are better than cakes. LEGO models of anything are pretty great, even if the full-sized version is pretty iffy (say, a meth lab). Thus: Solar panels? Good. Teeny tiny solar cells? […]
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A solar-powered cell phone charging station inspired by Occupy Wall Street
Tommy Mitchell wasn’t an Occupier, but when he visited Occupy Wall Street, he found out that OWSers were charging their cell phones at a hot dog vendor’s gas-guzzling generator, The New York Times reports. “I was like, ‘Well that’s awful,’” he said. That’s when he began thinking about inventing a device that could harness renewable […]