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Solar panels use light energy from the sun to generate electricity through the photovoltaic effect.
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Environmental groups like the Solar Electric Light Fund, which brings green energy to impoverished areas of the globe, have been featured on Philanthroper.
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Light Energy that produces and sells solar-powered LED lanterns to replace kerosene lights in the emerging market villages.
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Too many U.S. manufacturing jobs have moved offshore including jobs making solar panels, wind turbines, energy-efficient appliances and light bulbs.
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The UCLA team describes a new kind of polymer solar cell (PSC) that produces energy by absorbing mainly infrared light, not visible light, making the cells nearly 70% transparent to the human eye.
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Now salt is back on the table as states such as California green-light big solar thermal power projects to meet ambitious renewable energy mandates.
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Rather than creating a new type of solar-powered light, which seems to be where most alternative energy people spend their time, Martin Riddiford and Jim Reeves, London based designers spent the last four years developing GravityLight as an off-line project.
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Then there is the Chinese billionaire nicknamed Light: Xiaofeng Peng, 33, who got into solar energy in 2005 and took his company, LDK Solar, which makes silicon wafers used in solar panels, public on NYSE Euronext two years later.
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Technologies on display ranged from solar powered water purification units to military vehicles using next generation materials and energy sources to light weight batteries that can give better range and endurance.
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Current solar power largely ignores near-infrared light and wastes about 40 percent of the potential energy it could harness.
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Rare earths are in CFL light bulbs, solar photovoltaics, and dozens of other devices environmentalists want in the energy mix.
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