Giant solar plants in Negev could power Israel's future
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Payback time for the unlucky, oil-free desert? DLD08 A series of solar energy power stations in the Negev could supply all of Israel's power needs - or, if you wanted to be really ambitious, you could supply all of the world's electricity needs with the aid of slightly under 10 per cent of the Sahara. So says Professor David Faiman of Israel's Ben-Gurion University, man with a plan and current proprietor of the largest solar energy dish in the world.â¦
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French nuclear giant Areva said on Thursday it was ready to build up to 12 next-generation power plants in South Africa, where massive electricity shortages shut down the key mining industry this month.
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BRECKENRIDGE, Colorado &#150; The deployment of space platforms that capture sunlight for beaming down electrical power to Earth is under review by the Pentagon, as a way to offer global energy and security benefits &#150;  including the prospect of short-circuiting future resource wars between increasingly energy-starved nations.
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Nanosolar, a heavily financed Silicon Valley start-up whose backers include Googleâs co-founders, plans to announce Tuesday that it has begun selling its innovative solar panels.
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Shining a light on the solar industry.
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Political sources in Israel say the state has begun building housing units in the Gilo settlement outside Jerusalem. A leading newspaper has confirmed the decision and reports that a new plan will allow the
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President Shimon Peres touted Israel as a future think thank for solutions to global warming, quipping that the sun was a more reliable resource than oil from Saudi Arabia.
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Seeking efficient solar cells Researchers in Australia have developed technology that could pave the way for highly efficient solar cells.â¦
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It has taken out an Iranian nuclear reactor before, but Israel doesn't have a lot of good options this time around. Here's why.
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Some of the regionâs best minds are captivated by the challenge of solar power and hope to put the development of solar technologies on a faster track.
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Egypt's energy minister unveils plans to build a nuclear power plant on the country's Mediterranean coast.
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A new school in the Masai village of Oloolaimutia in East Africa runs day and night now, even though the majestic tribe lives without electricity or running water in its nearby compound of mud houses. More than 400 children attend the school, which uses solar panels to provide light and deliver power to three new laptop computers.
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Artificial photosynthesis may be the key to harnessing energy directly from the sun and creating a limitless renewable energy source, experts say.
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BOXBERG, Germany  - As Chancellor Angela Merkel seeks to convince world leaders to cut greenhouse gases at a G8 summit this week, one of the biggest brown coal-fired power plants ever built is taking shape in this depressed town.
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Blog: The search giant shares its running tab of solar power production since turning on its panels.
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Israel's housing minister said on Tuesday preparations were underway to build more than 1,000 new homes in and around Arab East Jerusalem, which Palestinians see as capital of a future state.
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Sun has a laudable vision of the future of utility computing, where organisations with extra processing power can sell it back to a computing grid in the same manner that homes with solar panels can sell power back to the electrical power grid.