Here comes the solar parking garage
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Blog: There's nothing on the roofs of parking garages now but old beer bottles and leaves.
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The U.S. solar panel installer gets a plug from a Chinese giant.
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Blog: A controversial company that promises to rent, rather than sell, solar panels could announce its plans in the fall.
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Space shuttle Atlantis astronauts are setting up a new set of solar arrays on the International Space Station, which will eventually double the orbiting laboratory's power capabilities, according to NASA.
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The installation of new solar panels on the International Space Station by the shuttle Atlantis crew marks just one stage in the difficult task of completing the orbital laboratory by 2010.
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The search giant joins a growing trend by landscaping its headquarters' parking lots with pole-mounted panels that provide shade and generate clean power in one fell swoop. By Marty Graham.
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The planned $100 million factory is part of a wave of solar power plant construction in the south west U.S.
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Scientists have struggled for years to make electricity from the sunâs light at a cost competitive with power from coal or natural gas. The challenges are formidable.
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Paul Jones has announced two new things pertaining to the Solar framework today - the release of a new versions and the launch of a new website.    The first new release of Solar in three months, version 0.26.0 alpha, has arrived! There are over 150 separate changes and improvements noted in the change log.   In conjunction with the new release, we have a brand new website. The site design is from Matt Brett, the CSS and hosting are courtesy of Clay Loveless, and the logo was designed by Ben Carter.    Changes in the latest release of the framework include:  a move from the Facade pattern to the Factory pattern front-controller and page-controller now support automatic discovery of alternative output formats Solar_Sql has a lot of little improvements a new data filter class   Check out the blog entry for the full release notes or just hop on over to the site and pick up this latest edition.
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Paul Jones, developer of the Solar Application Framework, has posted the latest version of said software. Details for the release can be found in this blog posting over on his site.    Last night, I released version 0.24.0 of Solar, the simple object library and application repository. Solar is a PHP 5 framework for rapid application development.   You can read the change notes for a full run-down, but there are a few changes in particular that I want to highlight.    He points out changes in the form of two major packages:  Solar_Request - a new class developed to handle the request information for a script (get/post/cookie/etc) Solar_Session - a new class to handle the sessions in an application, complete with read-once "flash" support  He also mentions a small change to the built-in Ajax support for the handling of the "edit" view.
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Voltaic Systems shows off a laptop bag with integrated 14-watt panel and battery for charging laptops.
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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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Rolf Disch has harnessed the sun in his city of Freiburg, starting with his own house. It looks like an upside-down Apollo spacecraft and serves as a testing ground for ideas dreamed up by the 63-year-old solar architect. The home slowly turns with the sun to charge a billboard-sized solar panel on the roof, and the waterless toilet emits an occasional malodorous whiff.
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Blog: Solar installer SolarCity develops software to monitor and report on solar panel output through an Internet connection.
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Scientists have struggled for years to make electricity from the sunâs light, at a cost competitive with other power sources. Now they are close, using the sunâs heat instead.
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Solar fans will be happy to see (as mentioned in the latest post from Paul Jones) that all of the previous (and future) posts he's been making as tutorials on certain parts of the framework have been integrated into the Solar manual.   The translation went pretty quickly, because I wrote the original blog entries using Solar_Markdown, which converted them to HTML for the blog. Then I did some quick edits and re-converted them using Solar_Markdown_Wiki (which is the markup format for all the class API and manual entries at the Solar website).   Posts adapted so far include the posts covering views and layouts, using HTTP and sending email from Solar.
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Pick your vehicle&#151;stock car, motorcycle, pickup truck, riding lawn mower&#151;and competitors in the United States race them. So, too, the solar-powered car.