Beyond more-efficient solar cells, they're working to slash the cost of components elsewhere in the solar-module system.
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Rebates: Some states, and even cities and utilities, offer rebates that cover part of the purchase price of a solar-energy system installation.
The solar-energy system for our hypothetical home in Brooklyn paid for itself in just five years, thanks in part to large local incentives.
Eight19, a start-up spun out of Cambridge University, has a similar model in which small payments, like those used to buy kerosene, allow the purchase of a solar-lighting system to be spread out.
The 2.5-acre property has a 51-panel solar system with a 20-year assignable contract with utility company Xcel Energy.
Astrophysicists will also use it to try to re-create the conditions at the center of supernovas, to understand how the elements that make up our solar system--and our bodies--are created.
Peter Rive says SolarCity is putting the solar-battery backup system in 100 residential and commercial pilot projects.
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The rest of the house has high-end features like Italian marble, mahogany cabinetry, onyx slab flooring, wine and piano room, two pools, billiard room and solar power-generating system.
But most of the history of the solar system--this is why the comet is so important--most of the history of this comet was spent out beyond Neptune, out where Pluto is at the very edge of the solar system, what we call the Kuiper belt.
But first, we haven't heard the last about the ignominious vote last month to strip Pluto of its place in our solar system - kicked out of the planetary lineup by a group of astronomers because it doesn't fit the new definition of what a planet is.
The main source of meteorites, Chinese folklore notwithstanding, is the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, a rough-and-tumble region of our solar system in which would-be planets are upset by Jovian gravity.
Few people off the grid have the funds to buy the kilowatt-scale solar system commonly found on Gridder homes.
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And a project is underway today to create a solar-powered water purification system to supply the needs of 750-1500 people per day.
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The Sun's magnetic field and solar wind - mainly in the form of electrons and protons coming out of the Sun - protects the entire Solar System by acting as a sort of shield from cosmic rays (very energetic particles and radiation from outer space).
Asteroids and meteorites, along with comets, are regarded as left-overs from the raw ingredients of the early solar system, uncooked by any planet-forming processes.
The 59-acre (24 hectare) site will also boast a solar thermal hot water system to pre-heat the water for the heating system, and a biomass boiler that will provide heat using locally-sourced wood chips.
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Follow-up The Solar System won a Bookseller digital innovation award last year.
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Areva would buy the panels for its hybrid solar power plant, though it is unclear how exactly Areva plants to integrate the electricity-generating panels with its solar-concentrating mirrors and steam system.
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"First, this icy 'super-Earth' dominates the region around its star that in our Solar System is populated by the gas-giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn, " he said.
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Orbital debris could block all these benefits for centuries and prevent us from developing clean energy sources like space solar power satellites, exploring our Solar System and someday making humanity a multi-planetary civilization capable of surviving true climatic catastrophes.
Small planets, like the inner four in our own solar system, are rocky - larger ones, like the outer four, aren't much more than balls of gas.
It concerns data the spacecraft has been gathering about changes in its environment which for some time now have suggested it is about to cross over the Solar System's border - the so-called heliopause.
Duckwitz, Germany-based Solarlite partnered with Thai Solar Energy company to manufacture and build the five-megawatt system.
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Mars, our next-door neighbor in the solar system, hasn't given up many of its secrets yet.
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Second, that orbit looks so unstable that he thinks it unlikely that it could have lasted for the 4.5 billion-year history of the solar system.
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.
It involves a centralised, village-level system with a large solar panel that charges a car battery.
The data are the orbits of comets that are likely to have been first-time visitors to the inner solar system.
Both allow homeowners to avoid the typical five-figure upfront cost of a solar system by paying a monthly fee that often is lower than their electricity costs.
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