R??ter says that from the day he started Conergy with a loan from his mother, he always used the best solar technology available and engineered his own hardware for mounting panels and connecting them to the grid.
Sitting in the center of the so-called Sun Belt, the country is part of a vast, rainless region reaching from the western edge of North Africa to the eastern edge of Central Asia that boasts the best solar energy resources on Earth.
At very best, solar, wind and cellulosic ethanol will make 20% contributions by 2025.
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The list included Citigroup, JPMorgan, Hewlett-Packard, JCPenney and First Solar, even Best Buy, Dow Chemical and Google.
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We want to get away from fossil fuels and in the long term solar seems the best bet.
Solarfun Power Holdings ( SOLF - news - people ) has emerged as one of the best performing stocks within the solar sector.
Its best hope is that the solar cell industry doesn't follow the curve of the dram market it is often compared with--a once high-margin technology that turned suddenly, brutally, into a low-profit commodity market.
We need a serious change in the way we produce our energy, and solar energy is our best option and hope for that change.
With more than 300 days of sunshine every year, Arizona and the neighboring states straddle some of the best areas in the world for solar power.
"We're handing off to the private sector our transportation to the International Space Station so that Nasa can focus on what we do best - exploring even deeper into our Solar System, with missions to an asteroid and Mars on the horizon, " explained agency administrator Charles Bolden.
During his tour, Wright explained in detail how to install evacuated solar water heating tubes and how best to insulate period sash window frames without diminishing their appearance.
Solar power may be not be best way to reduce the environmental impact of sprawling data centers built by companies such as Apple and Facebook, James Hamilton, an Amazon vice president and distinguished engineer argued on his personal blog last Saturday.
Torbay's deputy mayor, David Thomas, said it was one of the "best places in the country" to make use of solar energy.
Best of all, the entire installation will be powered by solar energy!
Some silicon solar cell makers have been able to hit 21% on their best days, but doing so consistently and in high volumes are far more difficult. (Panel efficiency is usually a bit lower than cell efficiency).
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The Department of Energy, as part of its efforts to promote clean energy, launched OpenEI.org, containing dozens of clean energy resources and data sets, including maps of worldwide solar and wind potential, information on climate zones, and energy best practices.
One more thing: if the best news we're getting on the environmental front is stick-on solar fans, it's sad we're not seeing the same emphasis on making cars, trucks and SUVs that are kinder to the lungs of millions stuck gasping at the crosswalk.
Same thing goes with solar, same thing goes -- whatever energy source, I want us to be the best.
Solar-radiation management, which most reports have agreed is technologically feasible, would provide, at best, a temporary solution to rapid warming a treatment but not a cure.
The firm's alpha dog and green weeper, John Doerr, is convinced that solar and cellulosic ethanol will see Moore's Law gains if you assemble the world's best and brightest minds to work on it.
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