Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin demonstrated a processor powered by a single solar cell at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Thursday.
It's currently working on the largest single solar installation in the U.S., a 15-megawatt project at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas.
The records also show several other Silicon Valley solar facilities created millions of pounds of toxic waste without selling a single solar panel, while they were developing their technology or fine-tuning their production.
The delicate, single-seat Solar Impulse flies around 40 mph and can't go through clouds.
Every single new house constructed should have solar panels on the roofs.
There are solar companies in every single state in the Union.
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But beginning next week, "The Bachelorette" will for the first time feature a single mother as the sun in the solar system of suitors.
The biggest solar thermal plant ever built is in the Mojave Desert of California and generates 80 megawatts. (The biggest single photovoltaic installation produces 12 megawatts.) Solar thermal power prices range from 11 cents to 15 cents per kilowatt-hour, making it more expensive than natural gas generation at its lowest price, around 7 cents, but less expensive during peak hours.
And, the company will consolidate its Solar Materials and SunEdison businesses into a single unit.
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"The possibility that current climate models underestimate the effect of solar variations on climate is probably the single most contentious issue in climate research at the moment, " said Dr Myles Allen of the department of physics at Oxford University.
That single project is about equal in capacity to all of the solar PV installed nationwide all of last year, a record-setting year.
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If we could change that rule, it would create its own movement where you would see every single school, church, and factory in the country putting solar panels on their roofs, which the neighbors could invest in it.
The single-person aircraft came from Switzerland and has made history as a solar-powered plane that could fly overnight, thanks to batteries that are charged up during the day.
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Solar panels typically account for only about the third of the cost of a single-axis power plant, thanks to a plunge in photovoltaic module prices in recent years.
This summer, two of them merged to form a single oval, larger than the earth, making the second-biggest storm in the solar system after the Great Red Spot.
To date, most of those trained in solar have been commuting out of L.A. to the suburbs and single-owner occupied buildings have been addressed a lot faster by the industry than blocks of apartments and rental homes.
The banks profit from investing in solar in two ways: They get tax advantages (the investment tax credit) as well as a single-digit rate of return.
While there is no doubt that wind, solar and geothermal have ample energy to power the planet--the sunlight that hits Earth in a single hour contains enough energy to fuel the human population for a year--they will need years to mature before they reach anything approaching their potential.
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