It also has its hand in oil sands, solar, fuel cells and a variety of other alternative energy initiatives worldwide.
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Sometime in the next five to ten years, solar fans predict, the cost curves of solar and fossil fuel generation will cross in most parts of the world, and solar will sell itself to consumers without a subsidy.
Two, they can substitute grid-based power with self-generated power, i.e. power produced onsite using solar panels, fuel cells or whatever that never flows through the grid.
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They'll be jobs building the wind turbines and solar panels and fuel-efficient cars that will lower our dependence on foreign oil, and modernizing our costly health care system that will save us billions of dollars and countless lives.
Another worry: a worldwide shortage of tellurium, which is produced as a mining by-product, to fuel First Solar's long-term growth.
Multi-junction solar cells say, fuel cells or, possibly, new aluminium alloys for windmill blades so they can work in higher speed winds.
The money received by taxing the oil and gas industry would then be spent by the government to support research for electric vehicles, biofuels, solar, and hydrogen fuel cells.
Some state programs also legislate mandatory renewable portfolio standards that require electric utility companies to purchase designated amounts of energy from wind, solar and bio-fuel providers, typically at premium costs that are passed on to customers.
But with Apple moving to install giant solar arrays and a fuel cell power station at its iDataCenter in North Carolina as part of an effort to create a coal-free iCloud, Greenpeace on Thursday issued a report that gives a slight upgrade to low marks the group previously gave the company.
From the perspective of displacing fossil-fuel use, solar thermal water heater systems are even more advantageous.
Wind and solar produce no emissions, fuel costs nothing, and there are no major health or environmental dangers.
The heat is supplied by sources that range from waste-to-energy facilities and biomass boilers to micro-CHP fuel cells and solar-thermal arrays.
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Its creators said solar planes will never replace fuel-powered commercial flights.
"To me it was clear that depleting natural resources and rising fuel costs make solar the energy source of choice for tomorrow, " the entrepreneur explains.
Some of these folks want to dismiss the promise of solar power and wind power and fuel-efficient cars.
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DG, but we have seen the most movement on fuel cells, and solar leases are increasing in popularity as well.
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico are exploring the idea of using concentrated solar energy to turn CO2 into fuel.
Its creators say the Solar Impulse is designed to showcase the potential of solar power and will never replace fuel-powered commercial flights.
We would, essentially, be in the Lomborg world, where solar (and others, perhaps fuel cells) become cheaper than fossil fuels long before climate change itself is a serious probloem.
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Overall, China views promotion of green sectors as sound industrial policy: it aims to be the world market leader in solar panels, wind turbines, fuel-efficient cars, and other clean energy industries.
"We're committed to building the world's most environmentally responsible data centers and are leading the industry in the use of renewable energy, including the nation's largest private solar arrays and non-utility fuel cell installation, " the statement said.
Furthermore, the company is involved in such a range of energy technologies (including dirty coal plants, nuclear generators, natural-gas turbines and wind) that it does not need carbon regulations in the way, say, a narrowly focused fuel-cell or solar-cell maker might.
These systems must be smart enough to independently switch back and forth from solar when the sun is out to fuel at night or when there is heavy cloud cover.
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Opening the debate, shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint said that instead of helping, ministers were "making things worse" as a result of their decision to cut the winter fuel allowance and subsidies for solar panels.
The RPS would require utilities to use a minimum percentage of clean power--such as wind, hydropower or solar energy--in their overall fuel mix, or it would require electric companies to buy renewable credits from each other.
That mix includes both a solar array and a 5-megawatt biogas fuel cell installation.
In his 50-year career, Ovshinsky received more than 400 patents in the U.S. and more than 800 foreign patents covering a range of technologies, including nickel-metal hydride batteries, rewritable CDs, DVD optical discs, flat-screen liquid crystal displays, hydrogen fuel cells, thin-film solar cells and others.
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Its creators said the trip is the first attempt by a solar airplane capable of flying day and night without fuel to fly across America.
From wind and solar, to waste and biomass to energy, fuel cells, co-generation, natural gas, and smart grid, speakers and attendees discussed a diverse portfolio of advanced energy technologies that are being developed and deployed in Ohio.
And that's why we've got to pursue an all-of-the-above energy strategy that includes investing in more biofuels and more fuel-efficient vehicles, and more solar power and more wind power, and more people going back to work building cars and homes and businesses that are more energy efficient than the ones that we've got right now.
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