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The researchers used data from the global network of solar monitoring telescopes (Gong) as well as the Soho satellite positioned in a stable orbit 1.6 million km (a million miles) closer to the Sun than the Earth.
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More important, Crane is on to something: solar power is a social network.
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The first is that the solar-as-social-network concept is as real and dependable as, well, the Sun rising in the East.
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One of the enduring mysteries of the Solar System is how the ordered network of planets orbiting the Sun spontaneously emerged form the chaos of space.
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Another 40 solar farms in the pipeline will channel another 250 MW into the network, bringing with it the prospect of Cornwall being at certain times a net exporter of power to the rest of the country.
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In the very near future, the North American power grid will be populated by a bewildering array of distributed energy resources ranging from building-integrated solar photovoltaics and micro-cogen to intelligent control systems and mesh network lighting.
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NRG, meanwhile, has been ramping up its investments in solar and wind power as well as rolling out an electric car-charging network in the petro capital of Houston, of all places.
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The larger your energy network, the better you can deal with the fundamental problems of cyclical power like solar and intermittent sources like wind, by pooling available energy and getting it to the users when needed.
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