The technology paper covers 10 technologies: bioenergy for electricity and heat, biofuels, geothermal energy, hydropower, ocean energy, solar energy (PV, concentrating solar, and solar heating), and wind (onshore and offshore).
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For example, southern Nevada and Arizona, already national leaders in solar energy innovation and production, could coordinate with universities and leading private solar developers to host a solar energy innovation center to conduct research on the entire solar energy supply chain.
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And we have to have other forms of renewable energy - wind energy, solar energy.
It is also the metric that exposes the inherent weakness of sources like corn ethanol, wind energy and solar energy.
Over the past six decades tens of billions of dollars have been spent on renewable and alternative energy schemes such as wind energy, solar energy, corn and other biofuels, and electric cars.
The White House report notes that the Recovery Act is accelerating solar energy innovation by providing funding for greater solar energy deployment, manufacturing and scale-up, and catalyzing needed technological breakthroughs to create novel and more efficient technologies.
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Solar Energy Storage: Researchers at Berkeley Lab have developed a system for converting solar energy to chemical energy and, subsequently, to thermal energy.
Future generations of solar energy technologies will produce cheaper and more powerful equipment, but a number of solar energy technologies are ready for prime time today even without those improvements, especially in states like California where government policies have given them an added boost.
We need a serious change in the way we produce our energy, and solar energy is our best option and hope for that change.
In many parts of the country today, solar energy is less expensive than conventional forms of energy, creating consumer demand for solar to reduce monthly energy bills.
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As the chief executive of a solar technology company, no one wants an abundant supply of clean energy and a healthy solar energy industry more than I do.
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From there, he's taken on private spaceflight as CEO of SpaceX, electric vehicles as CEO and chief designer of Tesla Motors, and solar energy as chairman of Solar City.
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Seventy-five miles west of there is Toledo, Ohio, where you've been several times, and Toledo has more solar energy manufacturing -- solar manufacturing jobs than any city in America.
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Or take solar energy, could we put solar cells into the roads and highways and figure out how hot they get, can we convert that energy back to the automobile.
The car was built by the SUNY New Paltz Solarcar Racing Team in partnership with The Solar Energy Consortium as a way to promote environmentally conscious design and solar power as a viable energy source for personal transportation.
Meanwhile, whatever happens with nuclear energy, solar power remains the most dynamic, fastest-growing source of clean, renewable energy and, indeed, of any energy source.
China Sunergy's announcement comes two days after EMCORE penned a large supply deal (See "EMCORE Warms Up To Solar Energy") and four days after Energy Conversion won an important deal to supply solar panels to SunEdison (See "Energy Conversion Wins A Convert").
Count hydropower, biomass, tidal, geothermal, waste-to-energy, solar and wind, and you have only 6.1% of the rich world's energy supply in 1995.
Today the Solar Energy Industry Association announced that solar electricity installations grew by 29% in 2009.
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Contrary to what many people may expect, most of these technologies, which include microturbines, fuel cells and high-efficiency cogeneration, rely on fossil fuels rather than renewable-energy resources like wind or solar energy.
Both companies manufacture components for photovoltaic panels and statements from their executives were issued and triumphed by the Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy, an alliance of solar installers and other companies opposed to SolarWorld Industries America, the U.S. subsidiary of a German photovoltaic manufacturer, to secure tariffs against Chinese competitors.
Little also pointed out that GE has significant experience in wind energy, solar, and in nuclear power.
Basically, the sun hits the solar panel and the energy from the solar panel is transferred to a wire.
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Solar energy speculators want to build a solar tower facility in Arizona that would be more than three times the height of the Eiffel Tower.
Contrast dense energy with solar and wind, which have failure built-in.
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Solar energy proponents want the price of solar electricity to fall so that it could better compete with cheaper power from coal and natural gas power plants.
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In overnight trading the U.S., Chinese solar energy stocks swooned on reports that solar materials maker LDK planned layoffs as it faces high debt (see story here).
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John says he wants to be environmentally friendly and is generating his own renewable energy from solar, wind and hydro schemes on his farm but there also has to be an economic consideration.
Like China, the prodigious expansion of power production from renewable-energy resources like wind, solar energy and geothermal has outpaced the ability of the transmission systems to move these new power supplies to centers of demand.
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We are also encouraged by recent announcements in Asia, most notably in China and Japan, that governments are strengthening their commitment to solar energy and raising the target for solar power contribution to the national grid capacity.
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