Google plans to install solar panels at it’s Silicon Valley Campus, or more affectionately known as the Googleplex. The 1.6MW that will be generated from their panels will be used to supply 30% of the electric needs of their office. The data centers however, which holds the monstrous data of it’s popular search engine will be excluded from tapping this power source.
Way to go Google! Thanks for going Green!
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Fat Spaniel Technologies has come up with a system to monitor a solar cell’s efficiency in real time by tracking how much electricity is actually generated by each cell as well as how much electricity is being consumed. All this data get’s fed into a central server where it can be viewed from any web enabled system.
The benefit of this technology are:
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French Company, Venturi, has produced the first ever commercial car which runs on Solar-Electricity. It has a top speed of 120kph and a minimum range of 110 km. It’s also built like a F1 car using light weight materials and with the driver and passenger set in the middle.
Great for the D.I.N.K (Double Income No Kids) crowd since it packs two people only…
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In the solar energy landscape there is an ensuing battle of consumer adoption. One side is touting the use of Silicon as the main energy collecting unit of the Solar Panel, the other side is parading CIGS(Copper Indium Gallium Selenide) …
The Tale of the Tape:
Silicon
1. Proven material and one of the most studied materials on the planet
2. 10 year ROI because of it’s high cost.
3. Current shortage of Silicon material which would be met by 2008.
4. 90% of solar panels produced are based on Silicon
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