Maui Recommended for Site of Solar Scope
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The summit of a Maui volcano whose Hawaiian name means "House of the Sun" has been recommended as the site for one of the world's biggest and most advanced solar telescopes.
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SDE BOKER, Israel  - Reflective dishes may be the answer to make solar energy competitive with conventional sources of power, Israeli scientists say.
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Free hybrid-car parking. Cash rebates for installing solar panels. Low-interest loans for energy-saving home renovations. Money to tear up desert lawns and replace them with drought-resistant landscaping.
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By DALE QUINN, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  Wonder what's killing the fish at Reid Park lake?  The warm, sunny weather has created ideal conditions for an algae bloom, said Sterling Ford, the environmental project coordinator for Tucson's Parks and Recreation Department.
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There is an interesting post on OnLamp.com that mentions the search for a good wiki system. Read the post to find out why the author thinks that the wiki world "needs the kind of vision that will make the product more accessible, more polished, less prone to abandonment or neglect...", and the several comments that follow.
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Astronomers to gain more observing time WASHINGTON, June 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are joining forces to enhance astronomy.
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(InfoWorld) - Sharp is planning to double production of solar electricity modules at a factory in Wales, it said Friday. Behind the planned expansion is growing demand for solar energy systems in several European countries including Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, and France. Sharp said long hours of sunlight coupled with electricity buy-back programs, which allow consumers to sell surplus electricity back to the power company, are driving the demand. The company will invest Â¥2.2 billion ($18.2 million) to take annual production to a total of 220 megawatts of panels. The factory in Wrexham began operations in early 2004 and is Sharp's second international solar module production base after a manufacturing plant in the U.S. Sharp's announcement comes on the same day that a major international report is expected to lay theÂ blame for global warmingÂ at the feet of man's actions. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)Â reportÂ will be published in Paris later Friday. Companies and consumers are becoming increasing concerned about the issue and some are investing vast sums of money in solar power systems that will likely pay off in the long run through lower power bills. Last year Google said it would build a 9,000-panel generation system to power its Mountain View, California, headquarters. The system will use Sharp panels. Sharp is one of the world's largest producers of photovoltaic panels, which convert sunlight into electricity. Last year it spent about Â¥3.5 billion increasing production at a factory in Japan to 600 megawatts per year.
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Examine the upside and down of wind, geothermal, solar and synfuel.
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jangobongo writes &quot;After a 20 year struggle, the University of Arizona&#39;s $120 million Large Binocular Telescope was dedicated last week.
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A solar-powered city is about to rise in the Persian Gulf. Why not in the United States?.
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Building-integrated photovoltaics gets a boost with power-producing terracotta roof tiles.
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Some Holy See buildings will start using solar energy, reflecting Pope Benedict XVI's concern about conserving the Earth's resources, a Vatican engineer said Tuesday. The roof of the Paul VI auditorium will be redone next year, with its cement panels replaced with photovoltaic cells to convert sunlight into electricity, engineer Pier Carlo Cuscianna said.
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The most important rule at this remote vacation spot is simple: no white light. Even a sliver of the pupil-dilating rays coming from the window of a cabin at Deerlick Astronomy Village could ruin a neighbor's view of the Milky Way. The 96-acre village in rural Taliaferro County in eastern Georgia is designed for amateur stargazers looking for total darkness and wide-open spaces to build weekend homes.
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University of New South Wales -- A small unmanned observatory high on the Antarctic plateau provides the best star-viewing site on Earth, according to research published today in Nature.     Australian researchers have shown than a ground-based telescope in Antarctica can take images almost as good as those from the Hubble Space Telescope, at a fraction of the cost...
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Brighter than ten billion suns The first research projects have begun at the newly opened Diamond Light Source, a state of the art synchrotron facility in Oxfordshire.â¦
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The five-decade quest for cheap solar power has produced an alternative energy that's still about four times more expensive than conventional electricity. But a group of local physicists, engineers and astronomers hope to be the first to break the cost barrier of solar energy.
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By Erin Nicholes, The Montana Standard, Butte  Sep. 21--Renewable Energy Corp. is planning a $50 million project that  will boost polysilicon production at its Butte plant, company officials said  Thursday.