"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.
Wind and solar as a source of renewable energy is a goal that most electric-generating companies, including General Electric (GE), Duke Energy (DUK), and Northwestern Energy (NEW), are hotly pursuing.
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Solar experts believe that the tachocline may be the source of powerful magnetic fields that produce strong solar flares and solar winds, and create sunspots that mysteriously appear and disappear during an 11-year cycle.
Knies is hopeful that soon the world will embrace solar power as the leading source of energy.
The French nuclear giant Areva bought a company that taps the biggest nuclear energy source in the solar system: the sun.
The heat source can be solar energy, warm water or waste heat.
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In India, China, Africa and the Middle East, solar should soon be a significant source of power.
You then take electricity from some renewable source (geothermal, solar, wind, whatever) and use that to electrolyse water.
Then, as that solar industry expanded they outgrew that source.
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The car was built by the SUNY New Paltz Solarcar Racing Team in partnership with The Solar Energy Consortium as a way to promote environmentally conscious design and solar power as a viable energy source for personal transportation.
Bob Gibson, VP for market intelligence at the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA), pointed to one large source of growth for the industry: utilities expanding their energy mix to include solar.
In many markets, solar can be the most affordable energy source available.
While solar is a far less polluting energy source than coal or natural gas, many panel makers are nevertheless grappling with a hazardous waste problem.
Such solutions are clearly some way off commercial development, but with Apple rumored to be designing its hotly-anticipated iWatch around a power source based on kinetic and solar power, a battery-free world isn't such a distant dream.
And the solar industry is both an affordable and sustainable source of clean energy, and a significant job creator.
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In the top diagram the solar panel is completely exposed to a light source 1804 and all six electrode quadrants 1802 are producing electricity more or less equally.
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Driving those market valuations is the expectation of more growth ahead: Analysts both in industry and in the government anticipate that solar will be the fastest-growing alternative source of electric power over the next 25 years.
Same thing goes with solar, same thing goes -- whatever energy source, I want us to be the best.
Spitzer was launched in 2003 and has proven to be an invaluable source of data about planets outside the solar system.
We're not going to be able to ramp up solar and wind to suddenly replace every other energy source anytime soon, and the economy still needs to grow.
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However, standing in one of the country's 30 solar plants -- overlooked by sand dunes on all sides, Dawoud tells CNN that he hopes that solar technology may eventually offer a viable alternative energy source to power the UAE's huge desalination needs.
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Perhaps the most interesting part of this design is its dual-mode power system, which consists of the standard solar cell array as well as a nuclear power source, allowing the rover to operate continuously and in areas that go long periods without sunlight.
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Now common sense would be for all to look for a Clean Fuel Source like Wind, Hydro, Geothermal and Solar.
Meanwhile, whatever happens with nuclear energy, solar power remains the most dynamic, fastest-growing source of clean, renewable energy and, indeed, of any energy source.
When combined with an absence of customer education and a product that lacks the sex appeal of solar, building owners often overlook efficiency reserves as a source of revenue.
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Tidal turbines can be installed closer to shore than wave energy equipment, and thanks to the regularity of the tides, tidal power offers a more stable renewable energy source than, say, intermittent wind or solar.
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After utilizing all eight watts of lithium-ion battery power, recharge the Switch 8 on the go with the portable Nomad 3.5 Solar Panel in about six hours or from any USB source in less than four hours.
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Besides being a useful source of dark matter, it may explain the solar-neutrino deficit (the gap between prediction and observation would be caused by a different mutation, from electron neutrinos into undetectable tau neutrinos).
As state and federal subsidies for installing rooftop solar systems are expected to decline in the coming years, these startups see solar securitization as way to secure a cheaper and more stable source of financing.
Albany needs to pass the solar jobs bill to help kick-start this job-producing energy source.
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