The Chinese solar company said Thursday night it will eliminate two of the three production shifts and reduce its workforce at the factory by about 50, or half of the employees there.
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The design makes use of solar panels to create a pergola, and the battery would store unused solar electricity for use at night or during a blackout.
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Argonne researchers are working on one possible solution to this problem: batteries that can store wind power for use when the wind stops blowing as well as store solar energy for use at night.
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The first night flight of a solar-powered craft in 2010 was followed by a first international flight in 2011, and first inter-continental flight in 2012.
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.
Five males, including two 17-year-olds and one 18-year-old, who were arrested on suspicion of an arson attack on the Sony distribution centre in Solar Way, Enfield, on Monday night, have been bailed until September.
He dreams of building gigawatt-size plants, of shipping solar thermal power to the cloudy Northeast and of using molten salt to store energy so thermal plants can power homes at night. (Nevada Solar One is only for daytime peak loads.) He envisions mirrors in space that can soak up sunlight 24 hours a day.
Night markets are being lit by solar lamps in an initiative pioneered by Delhi students.
Solar eruptions trigger aurorae on Earth, filling the night sky at high latitudes with dancing lights.
While the solar activity often produces a magnificent aurora in the night sky, it also can interfere with satellites, aviation radar, radio signals and other electronic equipment.
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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The U.S. military has also invested in a range of flexible solar-panel technologies designed to power everything from night vision equipment and image intensification devices to laser-range finders, battlefield-ready laptop computers.
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So to be really successful, the solar industry needs another way to keep power for use at night.
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That night, like any sensible trader I swore off solar stocks forever.
Kempton first got the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) idea in 1996, while wrestling with a fundamental problem with renewable energy: Solar power peaks at noon, and wind power peaks at night, but demand for electricity peaks between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.
At night, Stachel said, the doctor would take the solar suitcase outside and use it to tend to his patients and treat them with intravenous medications.
First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR) was listed on Off the Charts Tuesday night as it poked its head into the earnings gap, and we got continuation to the upside yesterday.
While lunar daytime lasts around two weeks, and it may be possible to funnel this light into greenhouses, the current limits of solar storage technology are incapable of sustaining artificial light for the equally long lunar night, even with one of these guys helping out.
The leading challenge with solar power, however, remains the storage of energy during the day for use at the airport at night.
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