Government loses court of appeal to reduce solar tariff
The government have just lost their claim to reduce the highly popular feed in tariff from 43p to 20p. So right now you can make money from solar at the original rate potentially for a limited time only. The government is currently seeking permission to appeal in the supreme court. So there is a great [...]
Rolls Royce makes an Electric car
Read more at the BBC site http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12512889
Cloud computing: Greener? Microsoft Think so.
Is cloud computing also “greener” computing? Cloud computing—large-scale, shared IT systems infrastructure available over the internet—is transforming the way corporate IT services are delivered and managed. The cloud’s unprecedented economies of scale reduce overall cost and increase efficiencies, especially when replacing an organization’s locally operated on-premise servers. But do these advantages also translate to environmental [...]
GlaxoSmithKline will build the largest Solar Array in the US
The pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, GSK, will build the largest solar rooftop array in North America in York, PA. The array will stretch over seven American football fields, generating enough solar energy to support the whole plant. It will be the first Glaxo building to be completely powered by renewables. Nearly 11,000 solar panels will cover [...]
Dailymail still reports rogue article for power generation
Can you create solar power from hair? Daily mail seems to think so, but you cannot…its not possible. You need a solar PV device to generate power and sorry but hair just won’t cut it. You need to separate charges created from incident light and hair provides no mechanism at all. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1212005/Teenager-invents-23-solar-panel-solution-developing-worlds-energy-needs-human-hair.html
Solar power plane
Around the world with Solar energy. Bertrand Piccard’s tour around the planet with a photovoltaic plane that conerts sunlight direct to electric power. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/10550430.stm
Solar PV – the way forward?
It is no secret that the sun can be harnessed to provide a source of energy for homes and businesses. The sun is a powerful star. It supplies us with energy, through a process called nuclear fusion, and sustains life on our planet Earth. Solar energy, or energy from the sun, has existed since prehistoric [...]
Solar: the gift that keeps giving
Fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas, and coal are used around the world as primary sources of energy. Because they are being used up much faster than they can be renewed, they are known as nonrenewable sources. Nonrenewable energy sources represent about 90% of the energy used today. These sources are being depleted. Since [...]
Affordable solar
Solar power has been available for decades. Safe, relatively clean energy, but the cost of the panels has long been too high for the average consumer. They’re also the one problem with solar energy, for those wondering about the relatively clean energy part. But the recycling of them should improve over time. Many people would [...]
Learn How To Make Solar Power Work for You
There has never been a better time than now to take advantage of the numerous benefits of solar power. Many states have made solar power affordable, cost effective, providing a 10% return on investment and in many cases solar power will pay for itself almost instantly. The utilization of solar power has never offered more [...]
