Solar output typically goes through 11-year cycles, with high numbers of sunspots seen at their peak.
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She could have added that changes in solar output have no impact on ocean acidification, the other major impact of rising carbon dioxide concentrations.
Users can connect a car charger cradle for their camera battery to the solar output of the Spark, which is switchable between 6 and 12 Volts.
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The state of New York has recognized the value of support jobs tied to solar, and is currently reviewing legislation to mandate power companies to increase their solar output.
But if Svensmark was correct, it would mean that periods of high solar output should coincide with reduced cloud formation (due to reduced cosmic ray incidence), which in turn would have a warming effect on the Earth, since less sunlight would be reflected back into space by clouds.
All together, SolarEdge claims its systems boost solar electricity output by 25 percent.
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Can the same be said for Solyndra, Evergreen Solar, and SpectraWatt, once providers of 25% of American solar photovoltaic output and now on the bankruptcy scrap heap?
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Collectively, the factories are expected to produce an annual output of solar modules capable of generating gigawatts of electricity, the company said.
So the output of dispersed solar and wind plants are less and less correlated the farther you spread them.
Those proclaiming the virtues of wind and solar should be compelled to reveal actual output data from these sources, the required back-up, and data on the actual reduction of carbon dioxide and other emissions when alternative sources are used.
Higgins intends to attach to the line 200 megawatts (peak output) of windmills, ostensibly generating electricity at a cost of 7 cents a kilowatt-hour, and has contracted to buy all the output of a 65-megawatt solar plant that would be an eco-loss-leader costing 25 cents per kwh.
The book expresses the growing concern among more careful real climate scientists, rather than political scientists, that trends in solar activity portend a return to the cold, limited agricultural output, and widespread disease of the Little Ice Age, or even a more full blown, overdue by historical standards, real ice age.
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If solar power is to make up much of the world's electricity output in future, as supporters of alternative energy hope it will, a lot of land will be needed for the power stations.
It would also mean that large scale solar farms, like the giant array in Alentejo, Portugal, could increase their output while saving on energy used to track the sun.
Global solar electric sales grew 62% last year to 3.8 gigawatts (measured by peak output), according to market research firm Strategies Unlimited.
Solar electric sales grew 62% to a cumulative 3.8 gigawatts (again, measured by peak output).
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