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Solar power getting cheaper in the United States
The cost of installing solar energy in the United States is down more than 50 percent since the start of a federal support program, the Energy Department said.
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Private Academy in Puerto Rico Selects KYOCERA Solar for Long-Term Energy Savings
Kyocera Solar Inc. and authorized installer Dynamic Solar Solutions has announced the installation of 207 kilowatts (kW) of Kyocera solar modules atop Academia Cristo de los Milagros (ACM) in Caguas, Puerto Rico.
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New technique could make large, flexible solar panels more feasible
A new, high-pressure technique may allow the production of huge sheets of thin-film silicon semiconductors at low temperatures in simple reactors at a fraction of the size and cost of current technology.
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Kumenan mega solar plant commissioned in Japan
GE Energy Financial Services and Virginia Solar Group have commenced commercial operations on its jointly owned 32-megawatt Pacifico Energy Kumenan Mega Solar Project ("Kumenan Solar Project"), located in the Okayama prefecture of Japan.
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Cooling, time in the dark preserve perovskite solar power
A new study has found both the cause and a solution for the pesky tendency of perovskite solar cells to degrade in sunlight, a research breakthrough potentially removing one roadblock to commercialization for this promising technology.
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Australian engineers edge closer to the theoretical limits of sunlight-to-electricity conversion
A new solar cell configuration developed by engineers at the University of New South Wales in Sydney has pushed sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiency…
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What sparks one of the most explosive processes in the universe
Scientists are making new discoveries about a process that causes some of the most explosive events in the universe.
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Nanocavity may improve ultrathin solar panels
The future of movies and manufacturing may be in 3-D, but electronics and photonics are going 2-D; specifically, two-dimensional semiconducting materials.
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NASA directly observes fundamental process of nature for 1st time
Like sending sensors up into a hurricane, NASA has flown four spacecraft through an invisible maelstrom in space, called magnetic reconnection.
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MMS Puts Magnetic Reconnection Under the Microscope
A team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has made the first direct detection of the source of magnetic reconnection.
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Spacecraft fly through magnetic phenomenon to understand space weather
For the first time, spacecraft have flown through the heart of a magnetic process that controls Earth's space weather and geomagnetic storms.
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Solar Impulse 2 leaves Arizona on record-breaking flight
The Solar Impulse 2 experimental plane was on its way to the south-central US state of Oklahoma late Thursday, as it pressed ahead with its record-breaking quest to circle the globe without consuming a drop of fuel.
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Spanish energy giant Abengoa posts 340 mn euros Q1 loss
Spain's troubled energy giant Abengoa posted losses of 340 million euros ($390 million) in the first quarter of 2016, it said in a statement Thursday.
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Sun’s magnetic field during the grand minimum is in fact at its maximum
The study of the Sun's long-term variation over a millennium by means of super computer modelling showed that during a time period of the Maunder Minimum type, the magnetic field may hide at the bottom of the convection zone.
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Swept Up in the Solar Wind
From our vantage point on the ground, the sun seems like a still ball of light, but in reality, it teems with activity.
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‘Starspot’ images give insights into early sun
Astronomers at the University of Michigan have taken close-up pictures of a nearby star that show starspots-sunspots outside our solar system.