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Graphene could have a major impact on green cars.
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How A Small German Town Became A Renewable Energy Miracle
A German town produces more energy than it needs from renewable sources.
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The Coming Solar Power Boom: Charts Tell The Story, Grid Parity In 2 Years
Will solar panels become as cheap as grid electricity by 2016?
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Four Ford Dealers To Test Solar & Wind Clean-Energy Systems
Ford will install Windy System wind-and-solar energy systems at four of its dealerships.
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Self-Contained Solar Carport With Battery: Electric-Car Charging For The Future?
Envision Solar's EV ARC is a self-contained solar charging and energy-storage system.
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Some Solar, Wind Power Competes With Natural Gas Without Incentives: Study
Fossil fuels have been an integral part of the industrialized world since it began 250 years ago. While renewable, carbon-free energy sources have long been viewed as the ideal solution, they were always more expensive than pumping carbon into the air. That may now have changed, according to a new...
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Swiss bank UBS predicts home solar will be widely adopted in the next decade.
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Ford HQ To Have Michigan's Largest Solar Array, 30 Charging Stations Included
Ford will install a solar canopy over parking spaces at its Michigan headquarters.
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Residential Solar Competitive With Electricity In 25 States Next Year: NRG CEO
Solar power for your home has been around a long time, but for many homeowners, it's required subsidies, special financing arrangements, and still delivered long payback periods. That's changing fast, according to the CEO of a major Texas electric utility. David Crane, who runs NRG Energy, says...
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Renewable Energy Won't Cause Electric Utility 'Death Spiral': Study
Solar panels won't destroy electric utilities' business model, a new study says.
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Are Vanadium Flow Batteries The Solution To 'Too Much' Solar Power?
It's a statement of the obvious, but solar panels do their best work during the day, specifically noon and early afternoon when the sun is at its strongest. The trouble is, this rarely tallies with when energy use is at its highest--typically in the evening, when everyone gets home from work. The...
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Could Solar Energy Cool Aston Martin Racing Drivers In Future?
Aston Martin Racing is collaborating with Chinese solar-panel maker Hanergy on a green air-conditioning system.
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Earlier this month, we asked whether solar roads could generate enough energy to serve some of the nation's power needs. With tens of thousands of miles of solar-power generating roads, parking lots, sidewalks and other open spaces--without needing to clear space in untouched, natural areas--it seems like an ideal, if expensive solution. It's one that's caught the public's imagination though. The company proposing the idea, Solar Roadways, has smashed its Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign target of $1 million by almost 50 percent, with four days left to run. Now it's important to note...
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Could Solar Roads Meet Our Power Needs? Crowdfunding Project Begins
If there's one big problem with centralized solar power facilities it's that finding the space to build them is quite difficult. But what if you could take existing infrastructure and put it to other uses? Idaho-based Solar Roadways aims to do just that, and is crowdfunding a project to manufacture...
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BMW Designs Custom Solar Charging Station For i3, i8
Solar charging is indisputably one of the best ways of running an electric vehicle. It certainly mitigates any lingering worries about fueling your car with a smoke-belching coal-fired power plant. BMW is backing solar too, commissioning its BMW DesignworksUSA arm to design a stylish solar carport...
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World's First Entirely Renewable-Energy Place: Wind-Swept Scottish Island
The island of Eigg plans to become the first in the world to become self-sufficient on renewable energy.
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Five MORE Big Myths About Green Cars And Gas Mileage, Debunked
Yep, Big Oil is definitely scheming and plotting to destroy the electric car. Everyone knows that. Right? [sigh] Time for more mythbusting, it seems. The surprising success of our first debunking of five green-car myths led us to look at five more relatively common ideas and explain ... well, as...
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Honda Dealer In NJ Is First In U.S. To Use No Net Electricity
Rossi Honda of Vineland, New Jersey is the first dealer to go electric-grid neutral.
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These are interesting times in the automotive and electric-utility businesses. While the reasons are different, it turns out they may intersect. It's been quietly discussed among electric utilities that increasing amounts of distributed solar power and other renewable energy may destroy their business model. The worry is that if consumers can generate much or all of their own electricity, the utilities lose the revenue from selling them power--while continuing to shoulder the substantial costs of maintaining the electric distribution network as a backup. MORE: Electric Utilities Now Fighting...
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More Efficient Solar Panels: Make Them Like Lego, Play Music For Them!
Two new studies suggest unorthodox ways to improve the efficiency of solar panels.
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Ford C-Max Solar Energi Concept: Using The Sun To Charge Electric Car
Solar power has proven itself better for static charging than it has for on-vehicle use, even if Australia's Solar Challenge race has shown solar cars to be possible under certain, very specific conditions. The trouble is, electric cars draw too much power and take up too small an area for solar...
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Is Tesla's Solar City Sibling The 'Energy Company Of The 21st Century'?
Some solar-energy companies have had a hard time in recent years, but SolarCity may look a little more promising. That isn't just because Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is the company's chairman, either--though it can't hurt. Instead, says The Atlantic (on Mashable), it's because the company is...
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2014 BMW i3 Electric Car Drivers Can Opt For Solar Charging Service
BMW's first full-scale production electric car isn't a vehicle done by half measures. It's uniquely styled, features high-tech carbon fiber reinforced plastic construction and the minimalist interior is awash with sustainable materials. BMW thinks its customers might want to continue that...
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Spray-On Solar Cells Show Promise For Cheaper Sun Power
Spray-on solar cells could make solar panels easier to manufacture and install.
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