Purchase: hilaroad.com This video demonstrates how solar energy can be focused with a curved mirror. Once focused this energy can be used to cook food, sterilize water even create electricity. Includes an explanation of Energy, Power, Joules, Watts. Examples of radiant, heat, chemical and kinetic energy are given. Includes links to directions for constructing a [...]

How to Choose a quality Solar Installer in Los Angeles
How to Choose a quality Solar Installer in Los Angeles
The age of renewable energy is upon us. Going green in one’s daily routine is easier. However, making a renewable energy retrofit on your home can be a chore if you do not know where to begin.
Here [...]

Maricopa ED-3 Board Brings Back Solar Rebates
Arizona. With an average of 211 sunny days a year and one of the largest cities in the United States (Phoenix at number 5), Arizona seems like a prime candidate for photovoltaic solar systems. To help finance solar installations, Electrical District number 3 voted to continue with the solar [...]

The fragile marine environment of the Indian Ocean is under serious threat from the effects of climate change. In the Maldives, some of the giants of the open seas are becoming endangered because their food supply is dying out. Stephen Cole reports from the Maldives.

A talk on similarities and differences between designed systems and self-organized systems, with implications for cooperation, governance, and complexity. Series: New Visions of Nature, Science and Religion [1/2006] [Humanities] [Show ID: 11082]

DIY Solar Power Panels – How to Start Using Electric Solar Panels?
Rays of Sun offer a replaceable power source for us and it is named DIY solar power electricity. Solar power panels are used for picking up rays of Sun and then used for generating solar energy.
A solar energy panel system may be [...]

Video of Solar Islands — a concept by CSEM, Switzerland (www.csem.ch)
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Nano-solar — This is a company that as the potential to change the world. It has developed proprietary technology that makes it possible to simply roll-print solar cells that require only 1/100th as thick an absorber as a silicon-wafer cell (yet [...]

New York Solar Incentives
In 1997, the State of New York enacted a New York Solar Tax Credit for individuals to retrofit residential property and multi-family property with solar systems.
New York homeowners are eligible for a personal tax credit of up to 25% for the cost of solar system equipment and installation for solar PV systems [...]

Thinking about Installing a Do It Yourself Home Solar Panels?
Assessing a do it yourself solar electricity system on your home? Imagine changing openly available solar electricity into electricity that may be used to power your house.
The quantity of electricity that’ll be generated relies on the number and wattage of the solar panels and [...]

BP Solar closes Maryland plant due to market competition
 
Though BP Solar is a big name in the renewable energy industry and maintains steady investment in wind energy technology, its efforts in solar development have endured a significant blow.
On March 26th, 2010, BP Solar announced that it would be ceasing operations at their Frederick, Maryland [...]