His vision includes making the power-hungry Sun Belt city into a leader in the new energy economy through initiatives like the largest municipally owned mega solar project and the Decade of Downtown inner-city revitalization program.
Last month, Sharp and the Italian utility ENEL agreed to build a solar-power plant in Italy, allowing ENEL to sell large volumes of sun-generated energy.
Because geothermal produces consistent, base-load power--it doesn't depend on the wind blowing or the sun shining--utilities will pay up to three times more for geothermal electricity than for electricity from an intermittent source, like wind.
While Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems were adding features and processing power to their pricey servers, RLX would steal the low end of the market.
Sun Power (SPWRA) which I have yet to re-enter due to the stinging sensation still noticeable when I type in the symbol, but I have remounted some Jinko Solar (JKS) and was a dip buyer of the ETF TAN on Friday at 8:30.
"Turanor" -- so-named after a word that means "power of the sun" in J.
But one of the biggest breakthroughs in clean energy was actually in solar power, as designers at Rawlemon created a spherical, sun-tracking glass globe that's able to concentrate sunlight (and moonlight) up to 10, 000 times.
Server maker Sun Microsystems and chip maker Advanced Micro Devices already tout their products' power-saving credentials.
Giffords is also smart-as-a-whip and a fierce advocate of developing solar power and other clean-tech jobs, especially in her sun-drenched southern Arizona district.
"Sun specializes in high-end gear, and somebody has to supply the computers that power this utility computing, " says Carr.
Future packages for a year's computing power might have the customer pay up front, pay later, pay now and run down an account, or draw computing power from a general-purpose "grid" of computers run by Sun.
But unlike other alternative energy sources, such as sun or wind power, there's nothing fickle about the availability of the key raw ingredients--fresh water and sea water.
BrightSource generates electricity using an approach called concentrated solar power, in which computer-controlled mirrors, known as heliostats, focus the sun's heat to boil water and turn a steam turbine.
"Microsoft's power is every bit as strong - even greater - than when this case started, " Sun's chief general counsel, Michael Morris, asserted.
The devices will run on Sun's Java-based operating system and will boost demand for the company's big servers, which already power some of the most popular websites.
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