tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:42:56 +0000Direct currentSunlightPhotovoltaicsSolar Power Stationwind turbineswind powerheat mapfranceStatkraftSolar CycleSunTowerwindowsolar power mapEnergy developmentElectric powerWorld's LargestroofDOE National Laboratoriesft myersRenewableEnergyPower stationItalyTornadolightningFossil-fuel power plantElectricity generationinstalling solar panelspower gridsNatural gasstep by step instructionsUnited StatesUsed Solar Panelsdo it yourselfSolar Parksolar kitsbbq grilleSolarKilowatt hoursunshineSpainpure energy braToyo ItoNFLchinasan jose CADepartment of EnergyMerckDIY solarSolar Stadiumnasasolar thermal towerAir conditioningoff gridphotovoltaic technologytransparentSolar EnergyElectricityRenewable energySole Powersolar powerwindowsspacecraftObamaPhotovoltaic modulesolar energy newsinventioncost of solar powercanadaENERGY CONSUMPTIONCEO Bill Crosssolar power plantcost of solar power systemInauguratedSolar thermal energyunder pressureHVACTile Systemsolar panelsorganicBusinesssolar laptop bagfloridasolar cellshome made solarSpanish companiesEarthgreenwastesolar powered gadgetsTaiwanarizonaSolomon P. OrtizSole Power Tilesloar powerAntelope Valley5-megawattthermal energyrecord-breakersolar houseAlternating currenthow to solar guideroof tilesExtreme Solar Power | Harness the Power!http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/noreply@blogger.com (Admin)Blogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-7285640263575133631Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:04:00 +00002010-11-26T14:04:24.911-08:00solar powered gadgetssolar powerinstalling solar panelssolar housesolar kitsDIY solarSole Power TileUsed Solar Panelssolar panelshome made solarcost of solar power A look into used solar panels... Every year the electric bill always seems to increase in price as we continue too use the same amount of electricity, so it seems. These new computers and plasma TV's eat up a lot of juice and are not the same as the old tube style television sets of yesteryear. Whatever the case perhaps your looking to reduce your electricity bill each month or just go http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2010/11/used-solar-panels-good-or-bad.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-4004703777214039629Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:47:00 +00002010-08-18T13:45:23.417-07:00ElectricityPhotovoltaicsSolar thermal energyEnergyEarthAlternating currentDirect currentSunlightImage via WikipediaBy Dennis Moore HopkinsInstead of paying a high amount for your monthly electricity bill, why not choose to make use of the solar energy instead? This is not just a great way to cut your expenses but also to take advantage of the natural source as well.Used Solar PanelsMany are very interested about solar energy and been asking questions how does solar energy work. Installing http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2010/03/how-can-you-make-use-of-solar-power-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-1335547467382480231Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:57:00 +00002010-03-14T23:09:58.407-07:00United StatesKilowatt hourRenewablePhotovoltaicsBusinessEnergyPhotovoltaic moduleRenewable energycost of solar powerImage by Getty Images via DaylifeSolar power energy systems are not inexpensive. That said it's important to compare them within context of other types of home improvement projects. Home buyers and realtors view a solar photovoltaic or solar hot water heating system as a significant value-added improvement - similar to adding a deck or remodeling your kitchen. Plus unlike a deck or kitchen http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2010/03/six-easy-steps-to-estimate-cost-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-169047911774390015Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:37:00 +00002010-03-14T23:10:32.046-07:00solar powersolar housesolar kitscost of solar power systemsunshineSole Power Tilesolar panelssolar cellscost of solar powerImage via WikipediaSolar power is one of the easiest and most efficient options for alternative energy in your home. It can be expensive to have a solar power system installed by a professional, but you can do it yourself and save loads of money on installation at the start and in the long run on energy bills. There are three options for do-it-yourself solar. The first of these is buying a solarhttp://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2010/03/real-cost-of-solar-power-investing-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-79935374971950529Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:08:00 +00002010-03-14T23:11:08.785-07:00step by step instructionssolar powerinstalling solar panelssolar kitsoff gridhow to solar guidehome made solardo it yourself Image via Wikipedia Let me start by saying yes, they absolutely can.  The only problem is deciding which solar kit is best for you because some are made for the total newbie to the more advanced solar panel builder. I found a site that narrowed the choices down to the top 3 picks for do-it-yourself solar power kits.  They offer step by step guides and videos plus other bonus's like an http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2010/01/do-solar-kits-you-buy-online-really.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-660538659597788009Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:07:00 +00002009-08-09T18:13:42.629-07:00CEO Bill CrossAntelope Valleysolar power plant5-megawattsolar thermal towerSunTowereSolarConstructed in less than a year (that’s fast!) and creating over 320 jobs, the SunTower is the first of several “solar” planned developments in the Antelope Valley area.A company known as eSolar unveiled a new solar thermal tower in California, the 5-megawatt Sierra SunTower solar power plant! The full-scale power plant produces electricity for Southern California Edison.California Governor http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/08/sierra-suntower-californias-solar.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-2215509743769376211Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:16:00 +00002009-07-26T17:35:35.915-07:00Fossil-fuel power plantBusinessPower stationElectricity generationEnergyNatural gasRenewable energySolar EnergyFlorida has been chosen to be a groundbreaking solar plant that will add solar thermal collectors to an already existing gas fired plant. Constructing it already started this week, that being the "Martin Next Power Generation Solar Center".The result? Almost 3 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions over the span of 30 years, and all this while providing reliable, clean, power from the sun!http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/07/first-hybrid-solar-and-gas-power-plant.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-7464612225996285670Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:44:00 +00002009-07-12T15:34:36.209-07:00Air conditioningEnergy developmentElectricity generationEnergyHVACElectric powerRenewable energythermal energyDuCool’s DuHybrid air conditioning is powered by solar thermal energy for cooling by up to 60 percent compared to standard air conditioning. The DuHybrid system combines dehumidification with evaporative cooling to eliminate the need for conventional cooling. It utilizes solar thermal energy when available and automatically switches to electric power when needed.The DuHybrid system operates in http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/07/solar-powered-hybrid-air-conditioning.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-3012455187286522955Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:47:00 +00002009-07-11T09:18:51.861-07:00solar powerroof tilesSole Power TileSole PowerTile SystemSolar Energy"The curved design of the tile allows for greater air circulation under and around the tiles, helping to prevent degradation in performance caused by the region's desert heat".SRS Energy has completed one of the first residential installations of the Sole Power Tile system at a residence in Bermuda Dunes, CA. The Sole Power Tile is the first building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) roofing producthttp://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/07/soler-power-roofing-tile-system.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-5197843280076155483Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:33:00 +00002009-07-06T10:47:44.424-07:00InauguratedWorld's LargestSolar Power Station At the present time, Andasol 1 is the largest solar power station in the world located in the Spanish province of Granada in Andalusia. Andasol 1 delivers climate-compatible power for 200,000 people. There is also a heat accumulator located in the centre of this gigantic solar field that are used to store surplus energy during the midday period using liquid salt. This salt is heated by solar http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/07/its-official-worlds-largest-solar-power.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-5498339950090208118Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:25:00 +00002009-07-02T08:11:54.625-07:00canadawind powerSolar EnergyCanada, the cold and crisp country in North America has been named the leader of wind energy via an international conference in South Korea, where George Smitherman, (Ontario's Deputy Premier and Minister of Energy and Infrastructure), was presented with the 2009 World Wind Energy Award!The "World Wind Energy Association" has named Ontario, Canada the leader for wind energy.Cool Fact:Ontario is http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/07/canada-north-americas-wind-power-leader.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-4753619199868587857Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:38:00 +00002009-06-29T09:25:35.343-07:00AORA has launched the world's first hybrid solar thermalgas turbine power station at Kibbutz Samar in southern Israel. This marks the first time that a CSP solar power station has the capability of providing environmentally-friendly, or "green" power 24 hours a day, seven days a week - at a local level."The size and relative price of our solar power system means it can be implemented in local as http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/06/worlds-first-hybrid-solarized-gas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-8001582091207322575Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:14:00 +00002009-06-21T08:28:31.894-07:00ItalySolar ParkStatkraftStatkraft is constructing its first solar park. The power plant is being constructed in the Latina region, 60 kilometres to the south of Rome, and will be completed in 2009. The solar power plant will have an installed capacity of 3.3 MW, and generate 4.5 million kilowatt hours annually. The 15,700 solar panels at the plant will cover an area just under 96 000 square meters. The investment will http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/06/solar-park-to-be-built-in-italy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-6473758568589425511Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:47:00 +00002009-06-17T13:02:51.143-07:00transparentsolar housesolar cellswindowIt looks like any other window. But this window offers an additional feature: it also produces electricity.To translate the vision of see-through solar cells and transparent electronics into reality, two different transparent coatings would be required – one to conduct the electricity via electrons, the n-conductors, and one in which electron holes enable the electricity to flow, the p-conductorshttp://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/06/new-transparent-solar-cells-for-windows.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-4835434270685862299Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:05:00 +00002009-06-02T10:11:02.547-07:00record-breakerSolar CycleThe next 11-year cycle of solar storms will most likely start next March and peak in late 2011 or mid-2012—up to a year later than expected—according to a forecast issued by the NOAA Space Environment Center in coordination with an international panel of solar experts. The NOAA Space Environment Center led the prediction panel and http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/06/solar-cycle-for-next-11-years.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-8024603067641286014Fri, 29 May 2009 17:40:00 +00002009-05-29T10:53:06.968-07:00solar laptop bagsolar powered gadgetssolar cellsAh, the cool solar gadgets...The Voltaic Generator is the first solar bag powerful enough to charge a laptop, using high efficiency solar cells. It includes a battery pack custom designed to efficiently store and convert the electricity generated. It will also charge cell phones, iPhone, iPod, and most other hand held electronics.Source: earthtechproducts.comhttp://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/05/solar-laptop-charger-bag.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-1514352424000889631Thu, 28 May 2009 15:56:00 +00002009-05-28T09:09:25.815-07:00DOE National LaboratoriesObamaDepartment of EnergySolar EnergyThe Department of Energy will provide $117.6 million in Recovery Act funding to accelerate widespread commercialization of clean solar energy technologies across America. These activities will leverage partnerships that include DOE’s national laboratories, universities, local government, and the private sector, http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/05/usa-department-of-energy-provides-1176m.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-8553918057470167809Wed, 27 May 2009 17:00:00 +00002009-05-27T10:10:31.051-07:00Spanish companiessolar powerSpainSpain is leading the field on CSP: more than 50 solar projects in the country have been approved for construction by the government and, by 2015, it will generate more than 2GW of power from CSP, comfortably exceeding current national targets. Spanish companies are also exporting their technology around the world.Environmentalists argue that many countries in the "sun-belt" around the equator http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/05/spain-leads-field-in-solar-power.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-9084412429882674306Tue, 26 May 2009 15:16:00 +00002010-01-10T21:18:32.913-08:00solar houseroofsunshinesolar panels Wh­at would you have to do to power your house with solar energy? Although it's not as simple as just slapping some modules on your roof, it's not extremely difficult to do, either. First of all, not every roof has the correct orientation or angle of inclination to take advantage of the sun's energy. Non-tracking PV systems in the Northern Hemisphere should point toward true south (this is thehttp://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/05/solar-powering-house.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-7680528462738276520Mon, 25 May 2009 18:03:00 +00002010-03-14T23:12:02.038-07:00Solar Stadiumphotovoltaic technologysolar kitsDIY solarToyo ItoTaiwanhome made solar Taiwan recently finished construction on an incredible solar-powered stadium that will generate 100% of its electricity from photovoltaic technology! Designed by Toyo Ito, the dragon-shaped 50,000 seat arena is clad in 8,844 solar panels that illuminate the track and field with 3,300 lux. The project will officially open later this year to welcome the 2009 World Games. Building a new stadium http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/05/taiwans-solar-stadium-is-100-powered-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-4852827955399438213Sat, 23 May 2009 15:26:00 +00002009-05-25T21:50:53.040-07:00solar power mapheat mapsunshineThis map shows which parts of the world get the most sunshine that could be used to make solar energy. The places that are the darkest red get the most, and the places that are cream get the least.http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/05/solar-heat-map.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-6889526792855515355Mon, 18 May 2009 16:33:00 +00002009-05-18T09:41:29.185-07:00solar energy newspower gridsunder pressureBack in the 19th century, it was a great idea, however...More than 150 years later, America's infrastructure is again changing in ways that its designers never anticipated. Distributed and intermittent electricity generation, such as wind power, is rapidly expanding, new smart meters are giving consumers more control over their energy usage, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles may someday http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/05/americas-power-grids-under-pressure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-5585773089017575888Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:26:00 +00002009-04-27T10:51:15.781-07:00solar powerarizonathermal energyWhat's the easiest way to deal with the intermittency of many renewable sources of energy? Cheap storage. And what form of storage is much cheaper and has a much higher round-trip efficiency than electric storage? Thermal storage. That's a key reason concentrated solar-thermal power (CSP) is a core climate solution. It has the most potential of any zero-carbon electricity since it can most http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/04/worlds-largest-solar-power-plants-to-be.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-7149808157987788188Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:21:00 +00002009-04-24T08:28:20.700-07:00solar powerinventionwindowsorganicSolar power is everywhere at the mo, maybe because it sounds more sci-fi than wind: which is the case with this new technology that turns windows into power sources. Clever bods at MIT have worked out how to use organic dye solar-concentrator coatings to collect light over a whole sheet of glass and "concentrate" it at the edges. This lets you have a much smaller (and hence cheaper) http://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/04/scientists-invent-tech-for-cost.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736947965171868597.post-7379264389223065203Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:11:00 +00002009-04-18T12:20:21.649-07:00I just love gadgets, here’s a cool tent that can power your gadgets through its wind turbine and solar panels at the top of the tent. Although this concept looks to be for commercial use right now, they should really make a mini-version for consumers like me who take their tent to the beach.Source: zedomax.comhttp://www.solarpowerextreme.com/2009/04/wind-solar-powered-tent.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Admin)0