Did you know that Los Angeles is second (only to San Diego) in both the number of solar installations, and solar generation of electricity in California? Also that LA recently signed into law a new program that will soon lead them to number one? This unanimous vote by the city council, makes LA one step closer to clean, sustainable energy. [...]
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SOLAR PV INSTALLATIONS GOING UP
Solar, just like all renewable power-technologies, has the constant challenge of price competiveness with fossil fuel electrical production. These traditional sources of electricity (by far and away) lead the market place, with emerging technologies struggling in their attempts to drive their costs down, and output efficiency up. Solar power production is the only emerging technology [...]
SOLAR POWER STORAGE USING MOLTEN SALT
A major deterrent to the development of solar power generation, is the ability to store on a large-scale, the electricity produced during the day for use at night. The only true options to this point are to use solar photovoltaics (PV’s) only when it’s sunny or to charge batteries. The charging of batteries [...]
SOLAR COSTS FALLING
A September 2011 report from the US Department of Energy (through its Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) states: “The cost to install a photovoltaic system (solar collection and electrical power conversion) has fallen by 17% or $1.30 per watt, from 2009 to 2010, with similar results from January through June 2011.” Factors are: A drop in [...]
SOLAR POWER
By using the energy from speeding photos originating from the sun, Solar Power cells configured in a Solar Panel create an electric current. The photon energy from the sun is abundant, and has been powering the earth for billions of years. Since the early 1960’s, scientists have been researching the use of the sun’s energy [...]
SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
Solar Heating Systems are an example of Second Generation Technology paying dividends in households today. Tons-of-thousands of homes heat their pools and water, using solar thermal collectors in a fluid system, at very low cost. These domestic systems use the sun to heat–or additionally heat–water, saving the energy cost to do it electrically, or by [...]
THIRD GENERATION GREEN TECHNOLOGIES
These renewable energy technologies, which are in some stage of testing, are (see Reference A): Ocean Energy (tidal movement) Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Energy Advanced Solar Thermal Power Stations Biomass Gasification Biorefinery Nanotechnology in Solar Power Panels Research Design and Development OCEAN ENERGY Ocean energy is the harnessing of waves and/or tidal movement of seawater, [...]
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