News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

Half Of Moroccan Territory To Be Powered By Solar Energy

This makes perfect sense given the fact that the North African Kingdom receives more than three thousand hours of dependable sunshine on a yearly basis. Nine centuries of unremitting sunlight have drenched this Kingdom of Morocco with all of its ancient charm and intrigue. Morocco has plans to invest nine billion dollars in advance to [...]

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Mid East And North Africa Have Huge Solar Power Potential For World

The region around the Mediterranean and North Africa [MENA] and its nations have the capability to power the entire world three times over if they could harness their solar energy. Israel was the lone nation left off a map of this report. These MENA nations, as they are so often called, have huge solar power [...]

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Concentrated Solar Electric Energy

By now, we all know the definition of solar electric power – generating electric power from the energy of the sun. It could take the form of direct to photovoltaic or PV, or perhaps it could be the indirect route. An example of the indirect method is concentrating solar power, for instance, when the sun’s [...]

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The Evolution of Solar Power – It’s Older Than You Think!

Solar power today is based on the same premise as solar power over the many centuries it has been in use. That’s right, I said centuries. Solar power has been around for a long time in various forms and has been around since the earth was an infant! Time to take a look at solar [...]

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Solar Power Generation Is A Natural Fit For Our Future Power Needs

Solar power is just an incredible way to power our world. If we could find methods of tapping into the sun’s energy for ALL our power requirements, the world would be a much safer and cleaner place. We know the sun is a powerful source of renewable power but only one hour of the sun’s [...]

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Make Maximum Use of Solar Energy; Use Molten Salt for Night Generation

There are many conductors of heat; molten salt is one, which can store the heat that the sun provides during the day. This energy can thereafter be used in the night to provide electricity. In the vicinity of Granada, in Spain around 28,000 metric tons of salt, is present in the pipelines along a power [...]

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World’s Largest Solar Thermal Plant Granted $1.37 Billion for Construction

A total sum of $1.37 billion of federal loan has been guaranteed by the United States Department of Energy for BrightSource Energy Inc. This will finance the world’s largest solar thermal plant at Ivanpah, California. The announcement of the construction was approved after a second plan was submitted. The first plan was to construct a [...]

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Renewable Energy why speak about Nuclear Energy?

Alternative energy has many connotations and sources. The supply of renewable energy is categorized as an infinite yet in face of oil crisis nuclear energy is considered as one. Environmental or economic May-day conditions should be a viable camouflage to categorise nuclear as a renewable source of energy. It is delusionary to present nuclear energy [...]

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Alternative Energy for the Future

It is tough to determine the ruling source of energy for the future. The use of renewable energy such as solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, wave and tide are at rise. However, in the fight against rising threats of climate change more intriguing technologies such as nuclear fission and fusion energy are at the doorstep. A [...]

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SunChips Snacks Produced with Solar Energy

Going green starts with gradual steps at individual, cooperative, industrial, governmental, national and then global actions are likely to be seen. SunChips is producing its snacks from solar energy, as they believe that everything begins with a small step. The brilliant idea to stop using fossil fuel and swap to solar energy to produce snacks [...]

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