A newly launched web site claims solar power presents many dangers and problems that coal’s million-year buffering is designed to avoid. After all, coal power is solar power it says.
Scientists in the US are examining the way plants convert solar energy into liquid fuels, and have found that although photosynthesis in plants produces less energy from sunlight than man-made solar cells, genetic modifications could lead to cheap bio-solar power.
Toys’R’Us, Inc, the world’s largest retailer of toys, is installing a mammoth 5.38 megawatt rooftop solar farm that the company says will be the largest in North America.
The 2011 Federal Budget has been described as ‘disappointing’ for the solar energy sector in Australia. It’s easy to see why when you compare funding commitments for renewable energy projects between here and in the USA.
The latest Renewable Energy Review from the UK’s Committee on Climate Change has drawn criticism from the country’s solar energy industry.
Home solar power in Australia has endured a battering over the last few weeks in terms of government support and in Tuesday night’s Australian Federal Budget announcements, it was the turn of other elements of Australia’s renewable energy sector.
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) specialist, Solar Trust of America, has announced a joint venture with German solar PV juggernaut SolarHybrid AG
A new report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says nearly 80 percent of the world‘s energy supply could be sourced from renewables by the middle of this century – if the right policies are in place.
The solar revolution is gaining momentum, even if some governments are still seemingly ignorant of its potential and in some cases, now apparently actively seeking to rein it in. In 2010, 17.5 GW of solar panel installations occurred globally, blasting past the previous years 7.2 GW by an incredible 141%.
According to Greens NSW MP John Kaye, the New South Wales government may have given some households cause for a class action suit over the suspension of the state’s popular feed in tariff initiative, the Solar Bonus Scheme
