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The US market would see similar costs and bigger risks if the government imposed punitive duties on China's solar cells, experts said in a report released on Friday.

Der Flugzeug-Prototyp der Initiative Solar Impulse ist am Donnerstag aus der Schweiz in Richtung Nordafrika gestartet. Nach Zwischenstopp in Madrid soll der Flieger nächste Woche in Marokko ankommen.

China has turned to the World Trade Organization to help block U.S. tariffs on 22 types of Chinese products, including solar panels, pipes for oil wells, coated paper and steel wheel hubs. The Chinese appeal to the WTO takes aim at the U.S. Commerce Department, which has recently imposed stiff duties on Chinese products. The department has cited Chinese subsidies, especially those funneled thro...

Aunque parezca descabellada , la idea es además de simple, perfectamente viable. Consistiría en aprovechar la inmensa potencialidad en energías renovables de España ( principalmente solar) para suplir el enorme vacío de generación eléctrica que provocará el cercano cierre programado de todas las centrales nucleares alemanas. Además de potenciar la cohesión europea , combatir el cambio climático...

Eons ago, nature solved the problem of converting solar energy to fuels by inventing the process of photosynthesis.

One brisk wintry day in 1639, a young man named Jeremiah Horrocks — barely 20 — set up a telescope in his quarters near Preston, England and focused an indirect image of the sun onto a small card. Lack of finances had cut short his brief academic career at Cambridge, despite his intelligence, but he still had a passion for the stars, bolstered by reading the works of Johannes Kepler and Tych...

NASA may not be sending up manned shuttles anymore, but that doesn't mean we're done exploring the solar system—not by a long shot. On August 5th, the space agency's new flagship rover is expected to land on Mars as part of an unprecedented search for traces of life on the Red Planet. More »

The price of solar cells has been gliding downward for decades. Now this trend could get a shove from an improvement to a more than 20-year-old solar technology that captures light with dye molecules, an approach that's never managed to catch on. The advance is "one of the most important breakthroughs in dye cells in the last several years," says Thomas Mallouk, a chemist at Pennsylvania State ...

Der Flughafen Madrid ist für "Solar Impulse" aus der Schweiz nur das Sprungbrett nach Afrika. Das mit Solarenergie betriebene Flugzeug hat Marokko zum Ziel. Es ist der bislang längste Flug für die High-Tech-Konstruktion.

Der Flughafen Madrid ist für "Solar Impulse" aus der Schweiz nur das Sprungbrett nach Afrika. Das mit Solarenergie betriebene Flugzeug hat Marokko zum Ziel. Es ist der bislang längste Flug für die High-Tech-Konstruktion.Mehr zum ThemaUser fragen - ein Experte antwortet - Die spannendsten Fragen zur EnergiewendeMit Sonnenenergie nach Afrika - Schweizer Solarflugzeug auf Zwischenstopp in Madrid

“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.” -D.H. Lawrence Here in our Solar System, the planet closest to our Sun is Mercury, speeding around in a complete orbit once every 88 days, with daytime temperatures reaching a sweltering 400° C,…

Chinese companies hope the US Commerce Department will "correct the incorrect and unjust acts" committed against them in later antidumping investigations.

Photo: REUTERS/Denis Balibouse A Solar Impulse aircraft takes off at Payerne airport May 24, 2012, piloted by André Borschberg. The Solar Impulse HB-SIA prototype aircraft, which has 12,000 solar cells built into its jumbo-jet-sized wings (about 200 feet long), attempted its first intercontinental flight from Switzerland to Morocco with a few days for a technical [...]

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PAYERNE, Switzerland (AFP) - The Swiss sun-powered aircraft Solar Impulse on Thursday took off for Morocco on its first intercontinental flight attempt without using a drop of fuel. Pilot Andre Borschberg successfully launched the plane from an airfield in Payerne in western Switzerland at around 8:30am (0630 GMT), bound for Rabat via Madrid, after a two-hour delay due to foggy conditions. If ....

Researchers are edging toward the creation of new optical technologies using "nanostructured metamaterials" capable of ultra-efficient transmission of light, with potential applications including advanced solar cells and quantum computing.

Kleiner Flieger auf großer Reise: Das Schweizer Solarflugzeug "Solar Impulse" des Luftfahrtpioniers Piccard ist in Richtung Marokko unterwegs und will dabei 2500 Kilometer zurücklegen. Es ist der Test für eine Weltumrundung.

Solar Impulse, a solar powered plane dreamed up by Bertrand Piccard, takes off for its "last rehearsal" before a round-the-world attempt in 2014.

2500 Kilometer mit Solarenergie: Die "Solar Eclipse", ein Experimentalflugzeug des Schweizer Luftfahrtpioniers Bertrand Piccard, ist zu ihrer bislang weitesten Reise nach Marokko gestartet. Die Tour ist eine Generalprobe - demnächst ist eine Weltumrundung geplant.

The government delays the reduction in the subsidies on offer to homeowners who install solar panels to generate electricity.

A cut to payments, their lifespan reduced by five years and plans to regularly cut back on subsidies revealed.

Solarflugzeug auf großer Reise: Die Solar Impulse ist zu ihrer ersten Interkontinentalreise Richtung Marokko unterwegs. Der 2500 Kilometer lange Flug gilt als Test für eine kommende Weltumrundung.

El Ayuntamiento da, a cambio, 20 alturas al hotel que incluye en el PAI de Mestalla sin que la empresa deba ejecutarlo

May 24 (Reuters) - Canada's ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc, which makes factory automation systems and solar energy equipment, reported a quarterly profit, aided by growth at its transportation...

L’avion expérimental solaire suisse Solar Impulse a décollé jeudi matin de l’aérodrome de Payerne (ouest de la Suisse) pour rallier le Maroc via une escale à Madri...lire la suitehistoires liées10:15 Portugal : 300 vols affectés par la grève09:34 L’euro reste en-dessous de 1,26 dollar09:33 La croissance allemande confirmée à 0,5 % au premier trimestre09:57 La Bourse de Paris efface ses gains et...

'Solar Impulse', el primer avión de la historia en realizar un vuelo de día y de noche, únicamente alimentado por la energía del sol, ha despegado esta mañana desde Payerne (suroeste de Suiza) con dirección a Madrid.

bonch writes "Researches at Northwestern University have developed an inexpensive solar cell intended to solve the problems of current solar cell designs, such as high cost, low efficiency, and toxic production materials (abstract). Based on the Grätzel cell, the new cell uses millions of light-absorbing nanoparticles and delivers the highest conversion efficiency reported for a dye-sensitized ...

After the Commerce Department announced tariffs of more than 31 percent against solar panel manufacturers in China for dumping their products on our shores, the debate over the costs of the move for U.S. industries and the fight against global warming has been heating up.

With India’s total installed solar power capacity about to touch 1,000 mega-watts (MW), corporate houses including Tata, Mahindra and Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group are betting big on solar power. All of them plan to add 100 MW of capacity each in the next three years.

May 23 (Reuters) - Solar power company Sunrun said it raised $60 million from a group of investors led by Madrone Capital Partners to help the start-up develop software needed to cut costs and...

Rodney Gomes, an astronomer at the National Observatory of Brazil, says the irregular orbits of small icy bodies beyond Neptune provide the evidence for Planet X.

Plans to build a £20m solar park with 60,000 panels are submitted to Pembrokeshire council.

For 585 days, a Swiss adventurer braved storms and pirates in an attempt to circle the globe on a boat propelled by nothing but sun beams.

An inorganic semiconductor can take the place of the liquid electrolyte typically used in dye-sensitized solar cells. This achievement points the way to making these devices more easily manufactured and more stable. See Letter p.486

The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the SpaceX Dragon capsule has launched successfully at 3:44 AM ET. Dragon has separated and the solar arrays have…

A move designed to punish Chinese solar panel makers that charge unfairly low prices in the U.S. could, ironically, end up hurting American-based solar panel installers, a fast-growing sector of the green economy.

War, what is it good for? Not much if you make solar panels.

Watch a time-lapse video of yesterday's incredible annular solar eclipse.

The moon slowly 'bit into' the sun, creating incredible visual effects such as a golden heart gleaming through branches in Los Angeles as the world watched an annular eclipse.

Photos of yesterday's annular solar eclipse from Asia and America.

The solar eclipse that inspired awe on Monday also sent ring-tailed lemurs at a Japanese zoo into a frenzy, as they were fooled into thinking it was nighttime, an official said.

Millions turned their eyes to the sky as a solar eclipse created a "ring of fire" from Asia to the western US, where it was greeted with whoops.

Solar eclipse that leaves only a golden ring around the sun's edges passes Asia and moves across the US How to Watch the 'Ring of Fire' Solar Eclipse Online

Watch live streaming video from interior at livestream.com The "ring of fire" solar eclipse dazzled viewers around the world, offering breathtaking views from Asia to North America. And the National Park Service planned to broadcast the eclipse live over New...

KANARRAVILLE, Utah (Reuters) - The sun and moon will align over the earth in a rare astronomical event on Sunday - an annular eclipse that will dim the skies over parts of Asia and North America, briefly turning the sun into a blazing ring of fire.

Today's "Rign of Fire Eclipse" (May 20) is known as an annular solar eclipse. Annular eclipses only occur when the moon is at a point in its orbit that is too far from Earth to completely block the sun. During today's solar eclipse, the moon will block up to 94 percent of the sun and last about 4 1/2 minutes inside a 300 kilometer wide...

The so-called annular eclipse will be visible from parts of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, California and Oregon from around 5.30pm today.

Astro-enthusiasts in the North- East states of the country are in for a celestial treat on Monday as they will witness the first solar eclipse of this year.

New findings from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will help scientists better understand the early solar system.

Check out Wired's website this weekend for all your space needs: the SpaceX launch on Saturday, May 19, and an annular solar eclipse in Sunday, May 20.

(Reuters) - The United States imposed punitive tariffs on solar panel imports from China, the latest in a series of trade disputes between the world's two biggest economies and sparking accusations by Beijing of protectionism.

Top line answers for Kings against the Phoenix Coyotes.The Phoenix Coyotes finally had a chance to exhale after taking it in the solar plexus the first two games of the Western Conference finals.

The United States Commerce Department concluded that Chinese producers had “dumped” their products on the American market.

The US says it will impose import tariffs of about 30% on Chinese solar companies, saying China is flooding it with subsidised products.

(Reuters) - The United States ruled that Chinese solar companies had illegally 'dumped' renewable power equipment on the U.S. market at below-market prices, and ordered tariffs on the imports, a source close to the case said on Thursday.

A U.S. Commerce Department anti-dumping decision could help some U.S. companies and hurt others. The United States Commerce Department concluded today that Chinese solar panel manufacturers are dumping solar panels in the U.S., and is penalizing them by imposing a 30 percent tariff on 62 solar manufacturers in China and a general 250 percent tariff on other solar panel manufacturers in China. T...

U.S. trade officials ordered 31% duties on China's top makers of solar panels, in a decision that is likely to help U.S. solar-equipment manufacturers but could stir trade tensions with China.

"New Planet Found in Our Solar System?" titelte National Geographic kürzlich. Und für den Fall, dass diese Schlagzeile aus Amerika hier zu uns herüberschwappen möchte ich sicherheitshalber ein paar Worte dazu sagen. Die Kurzfassung lautet: Unser Sonnensystem hat derzeit immer noch 8 bekannte Planeten. Niemand hat irgendwas entdeckt. Aber es gibt interessante wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse!Diese E...

Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb./Operator: We get signal./...CATS: All your base are belong to us.

Die Gläubiger des insolventen Solarthermie-Spezialisten Solar Millennium sollen eine Teilrückzahlung erhalten. Das hat der Insolvenzverwalter mitgeteilgt. Die Auszahlung hängt allerdings an zwei Projekten.

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ALBURQUERQUE, Spain— When officials in Madrid slashed support for alternative-energy programs this year as part of the campaign of government austerity sweeping Europe, ripples quickly hit this rural town with the cancellation of plans for a solar energy plant. Read full article >>

Die Solarbranche in Deutschland muss die nächste Hiobsbotschaft verkraften: Nach Solarhybrid, Solar Millennium und Q-Cells geht auch dem Modulhersteller Sovello aus Bitterfeld-Wolfen das Geld aus. Die Firma mit 1200 Beschäftigten drosselt die Produktion und erwägt jetzt Kurzarbeit.

Regional governments have blocked plans tabled by the Upper House to cut subsidies for solar-power installations by up to 30 per cent

Ni días, ni semanas, ni meses. Varios años llevan quejándose vecinos de la calle Pedro María Plano, sobre todo los que viven en la parte más cercana a la calle Calderón de la Barca, del mal estado en el que se encuentra la pared de un edificio y del vallado de un solar que contiene restos arqueológicos romanos.

Im kommenden Jahr dürfte die Umlage für Elektrizität aus erneuerbaren Energien deutlich steigen. Nach Ansicht der Verbraucherzentrale soll der Staat Stromkunden schützen, indem er Milliarden in das System zur Förderung von Solar, Wind und Co. pumpt.

Installers, often working through big-box chains, are taking advantage of hefty tax breaks, creative financing and cheap Chinese-made panels to make solar power accessible to the mass market.

A "monster sunspot" more than 60,000 miles wide could send some powerful solar flares toward Earth on Wednesday, NASA says.

A number of R&E networks such as SURFnet, JANET, AARnet, etc. are actively promoting mobile services and looking at integration of campus Wifi with 3G/4G networks using Eduroam. Mobile wireless services promises to be major service offering for R&E networks as the Internet of Things and Machine to Machine (M2M) becomes increasingly critical for research. Applications such as personal me...

There are lots of deals in alternative-energy technology stocks. Your research just has to dig deeper.

Cheap panels from China have forced the U.S. solar giant to lay off workers and close factories, but the company says it sees a way out of its mess.

Solar power company Ecolution has appointed advisers to raise up to £40m to fund its expansion plans.

A MAN has been fined more than $15,000 by a Sydney court for selling dodgy solar water systems from China that could burn people or contaminate drinking water.

MONACO (Reuters) - Salué par les sirènes et les trompes des bateaux du port...

Logitech cuts the cord and goes green with its new solar-powered keyboard and protective case for the iPad.

Europe will launch its first ever mission to the outer solar system after its space agency approved a £900m project to search for signs of life on Jupiter's moons.

The maker of solar panels isn't expected to formulate a better strategy.

Wien (OTS) - - Franz Klammer als neuer greenEXPO-Botschafter: "Es gibt nur eine Erde - und die müssen wir schützen". - Unglaubliche Technologien der Zukunft, präsentiert in großen FUTURE LABS, futuristische Solar- und Elektroboote sowie die neuesten Elektroautos und E-Bikes …

Spinning the wheel in UDRP roulette. SMA Solar Technology AG has filed a UDRP case with World Intellectual Property Organization for the domain name SMA.com. SMA.com belongs to Specialized Micro Architects. It was originally registered in 1995 and currently has an expiration date of 2017. The oldest whois record at Domain Tools shows that Specialized [...]

If you are looking for a spiritual lollipop, comfort food for the soul, do not read this book. It is not a comforting read, far from it. It is both profoundly challenging, in that it will make you question the nature of everyday experience, and painfully dazzling in the insights it offers into the nature of consciousness shorn of the blinkers of the ego: it is like looking at a thunderbolt of l...

The New York City Council is expected to vote on Monday to update the city’s zoning regulations to make it easier for builders to insulate walls, install solar panels and put gardens on rooftops.

In a world of more electronics and solar energy, there's less and less need for AC power.

Un bebé de quince días fue hallado muerto dentro de un bolso y con signos de violencia en un invernadero abandonado en Gran Canaria, por lo que su madre fue detenida, confirmó ayer el jefe de la Policía Local de Ingenio, Ciriaco Pérez.

New calculations suggest dearth of invisible substance in solar neighborhood

Planetary scientists seek to fill in gaps in outer solar system’s formative years

Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris says his company is going to focus on products that will change the course of humanity: everything from better solar panels to oil that will let us deep-fry guilt-free.

While the final ride of the space shuttle might mark a low point in the era of manned spaceflight, there's another way to explore the solar system.

With the high increases in electricity prices, it is high time alternatives were considered. Citizens and the government should start working on projects that can save a lot of cost and help produce energy through natural ways, such as solar power and the generation of electricity through windmills. The increasing durations of loadshedding and the multiplying of electricity charges have made it...

With the high increases in electricity prices, it is high time alternatives were considered. Citizens and the government should start working on projects that can save a lot of cost and help produce energy through natural ways, such as solar power and the generation of electricity through windmills. The increasing durations of loadshedding and the multiplying of electricity charges have made it...

<img style="float:left; margin-right:5px" src="http://images.zeit.de/news/../publishedPictures/jpeg-14812600442A9898-20120419-img_36148958_onlineBild.jpg-148x84.jpg"/>München (dpa) - Ausgerechnet das als Klimakiller geächtete CO2 könnte bei der Energiewende eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Umgewandelt in Methan soll es zur Speicherung von Energie aus Solar- und Windpa...

Das US-Unternehmen First Solar entlässt 1.200 Arbeiter. Für die Region um Frankfurt/Oder eine Katastrophe – wenn auch nicht die erste. Eine Reportage aus den Werkshallen. mehr...

Montreal-based specialty metals purifier says profitability shouldn’t be hit by solar panel maker’s decision

Rose Garden 11:27 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Good morning, everybody.  Lately, I’ve been speaking a lot about our need for an all-of-the-above strategy for American energy -- a strategy that produces more oil and gas here at home, but also produces more biofuels and fuel-efficient cars, more solar power and wind power and other sources of clean, renewable energy. This strategy is not just...

Die Krise in der deutschen Solarbranche hat das nächste Unternehmen getroffen. Die US-Firma First Solar hat angekündigt, seine Produktion in Frankfurt (Oder) zum Herbst zu schließen. Auch der Standort in Mainz werde deutlich verkleinert. Betroffen sind demnach rund 1200 Arbeitsplätze.

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Sie wollen nicht nur Solar, sondern auch Wind: Chinesische Firmen wie Sinovel und Goldwind interessieren sich offenbar für den weltgrößten Windradhersteller Vestas aus Dänemark, berichtet die Financi...

An astrophysicist at Queen’s University Belfast has been reading the pattern of sunspots and solar cycles, writesGERRY MORIARTY,Northern Editor

How the sun waters grapes in the world's driest desert

BRAD Pitt and Angelina Jolie clearly have money to burn. According to a new report, the Hollywood couple is building an underground, solar powered theme park for their children. The pair will build the recreation space for their brood at their home in the south of France which will be powered by the rays of the sun, according to the National Enquirer. “Plans include a massive pool, slides, ... ...

It's unlikely to win any design awards - and Jeremy Clarkson certainly wouldn't be seen dead in it, but a new Chinese solar car has cracked many of the problems that have hampered the technology.

Editor’s Note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital. Follow him on Twitter @ahaislip. We’re at a technological inflection point, a major branch of computing is splitting off and everyone from the sysadmin to the CEO is wondering what it will mean. The usual c...

A sun-like star some 127 light years away may harbor a record number of planets, 9, spotted in another solar system.

Widersprüchliche Konjunktursignale verunsichern Anleger. So pendelt der Dax um seine Vortageshöhe. Mehr Aufregung ist bei Phoenix Solar, die Aktie stürzt ab.

Wegen der Einschnitte bei der Solarförderung und des rapiden Preisverfalls gerät nun auch Phoenix Solar in Bedrängnis und braucht möglicherweise frisches Geld. Die Aktie stürzt ab.

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Recently launched film company Solar Pictures has tapped Amy Beecroft as its head of distribution, the company said Monday. Beecroft, who has handled distribution for such pictures as "The King's Speech," "Sanctum" and "The Road," most recently worked at FilmNation Entertainment, as senior vice president of international sales. Prior to FilmNation, Beecroft enjoyed s...

Die Pleitewelle in der Solarbranche geht weiter: Nach Solar Millennium, Solon und zuletzt Solarhybrid steht nun auch der einst als Dax-Kandidat Q-Cells vor dem Konkurs.

El encuentro, que tiene lugar en Chile, inició hoy con el grupo Dion; participarán también Björk, Systema Solar, Pedro Piedra y Los Jaivas, entre otros

Scientists at Aberystwyth University have discovered a group of solar tornados - several times wider than the Earth - on the face of the sun.

“Obviously, we wish Solyndra hadn’t gone bankrupt. Part of the reason they did was because the Chinese were subsidizing their solar industry and flooding the market in ways that Solyndra couldn’t compete. But understand: This was not our program, per se. Congress — Democrats and Republicans — put together a loan guarantee program because they understood historically that when you get new ...

President Obama, on a four-state energy swing, defended investments in clean and alternative energy amid questions about his administration's handling of loan guarantees for the solar company Solyndra — calling the company's bankruptcy "heartbreaking" for the workers and noting that Congress shared some responsibility in the loan program. "Obviously, we wish Solyndra hadn't gone bankrupt," Obam...

The United States has imposed a tariff on Chinese solar panels saying Chinese firms are unfairly benefiting from export subsidies.

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A unique thermosolar power station in Andalusia in southern Spain can shrug off cloudy days: energy stored when the sun shines lets it produce electricity even during the night

Detrás de los informes animosos, del parapeto de sonrisas diplomáticas y del 'todo va a ir bien' que escenifica el gobierno ante la 'troika' que supervisa el país, Grecia encara un derribo controlado dentro del euro. Más que reformas necesarias, el discurso de los negociadores sobre el futuro heleno coloca cargas explosivas en todas las áreas de funcionamiento de un estado insolvente. Si Grecia...

A once promising geyser manufacturer is under pressure and faces closure following funding cuts.

"CAUTION: TOXIC DRECKERY AHEAD" signs went up all along Secret Island Beach in Oahu, Hawaii yesterday right before broken glow stick Nicki Minaj smeared her antifreeze wig and butt Skittles all over the sand. Nicki tainted the sea with her neon marker pussy to shoot the video for her song "Starlight." I've stared at these pictures for a good 5 minutes and I still have no id...

@Phi Sagittariiwas für mich aber leider noch fehlt, ist ein mögliches Artefakt, welches "der solare Amboss (solar anvil)" genannt wird genannt wird, welches auch mir auf den beinahe live Bildern von Stereo-A-C2 schon oft aufgefallen ist Wenn Du damit das Ding meinst, das hier in den ersten sekunden dieses dieses Videos als solches betitelt wird, das sieht man oft, weil es ein Fussel auf den C...

Improved materials could make solar-thermal power cheaper, and energy storage easier.

A magnetic storm that is being felt on Earth due to a huge solar flare on the Sun has now intensified to G3 (strong), the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said.

Brazil's MPX says the prospect of new government incentives could prompt an expansion of the company's solar energy portfolio. The company already has requested permission from Ceará state's enviro...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Our high-tech world seems to have easily weathered a solar storm that didn't quite live up to its advance billing....

A strong geomagnetic storm is racing from the Sun toward Earth, and its expected arrival this morning could affect power grids, airplane routes and space-based satellite navigation systems.

A strong geomagnetic storm is racing from the Sun toward Earth, and its expected arrival this morning could affect power grids, airplane routes and space-based satellite navigation systems.

Lorne Gunter: To hear climate alarmists and environmentalists tell it, the world will soon be without winter. But that’s not what some solar physicists are predicting

British scientists have developed a system to help protect navigation and communications satellites from potentially devastating solar storms, they said on Friday.

Le pilote suisse André Borsch-berg a accompli avec succès un vol de soixante-douze heures dans le simulateur de l' avion expérimental Solar Impulse, destiné à effectuer en 2014 un tour du monde uniquement propulsé à l'énergie solaire.Articles en rapportPetroplus : Nicolas Sarkozy annonce la reprise de l´activitéDes usines en pleine campagneUn palmarès nuancé, témoin d´une saison exceptionnelleP...

Berlin is planning to cut subsidies for solar-power installations by up to 30 per cent to reform dysfunctional price regime

An inexpensive, polymer-based device breaks a record, reaching 10.6 percent efficiency.

GERMANY is only now finding out where its grand plans went wrong.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has partnered with religious institutions to provide solar panels that will power much-needed electricity to schools as well as promote the use of renewable energy.

JinkoSolar Holding Co Ltd, a Chinese solar power product manufacturer, has become the main sponsor of Spanish soccer giant Valencia.

Two researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a better and more compact way of laying out arrays of solar power mirrors. Slightly to their chagrin, however, they found when they had done the calculations that sunflowers had gotten there first. ...

Mit seinen Projekte in den USA erlitt der Erlanger Solarkraftwerk-Entwickler den finalen Genickbruch. Nun fällt das US-Geschäft an den Konkurrenten solarhybrid. Für die weiteren Teile von Solar Millenium gibt es kaum Interessenten.

The fledgling industry has been flourishing, but the halving of government subsidies has thrown it into confusion, reports Iain Hollingshead.

And it looks like they're gonna make some profit on it! Formerly married couple Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson first purchased their 2,835 sq ft El Lay home in Los Feliz for $2.9 million! Now, the two are selling their old digs, and they've put it up on the market for $3.6 million! Some of the key [...]

A new NASA study calculates how man-made greenhouse gases -- not changes in solar activity -- are the primary cause of global warming.

An approval would allow for the development of an 8-megawatt solar field on land owned by the Beduin Tarabin family.

La ubicación del país, cerca del ecuador, disuade la radiación que podría llegar, además la atmósfera también protege a las telecomunicaciones, según Alejandro Lara, especialista de la UNAM

DAZZLING Aurora Borealis makes rare appearance above the skies of North Yorkshire following burst of freak solar activity

Activist investor David Einhorn closed out his short positions on Diamond Foods (DMND) and First Solar (FSLR), he told investors in a letter to investors. But there’s one company he still very much wants to bet against: Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR). GMCR is down about 45% since Einhorn laid out his case against it [...]

Es gibt doch noch rentable deutsche Solarfirmen: Der weltgrößte Wechselrichterhersteller SMA Solar hat im abgelaufenen Jahr ein klar positives Ergebnis erzielt. Wegen des fehlenden Ausblicks fällt aber die Aktie.

Congress should end the subsidies to Big Oil and redeploy the money saved to support truly new energy technologies, like wind and solar power.

Un nuevo método para captar energía solar ha polarizado a los científicos alrededor del mundo y encendido un feroz debate en Internet, donde el joven innovador ha sido llamado desde extraterrestre hasta agente de una conspiración global.

Reverse auctions have helped bring down prices.

The CTO of Suntech Power describes an innovative way to make the active materials for generating solar power.

Tourists are lured by the prediction that increased solar emissions could make this winter's displays the most spectacular in years.

Phone chargers made in a garage head to Africa

Scientists have found two Earth-sized planets orbiting a star outside the solar system, an encouraging sign for prospects of finding life elsewhere.

(Reuters) - Google Inc and TransCanada Corp announced deals to buy solar power projects on Tuesday, just days after billionaire Warren Buffett made his second major purchase in the sector.

In another step toward finding Earth-like planets that may hold life, NASA said Monday the Kepler space telescope has confirmed its first-ever planet in a habitable zone outside our solar system.

Both green energy sceptics and environmentalists must see that the effect of China’s subsidies will be harmful in the long run if US and European panel makers are wiped out

BEIJING (AFP) - China on Sunday accused the United States of “protectionist attitudes” towards Chinese solar panel makers and warned that a US investigation could hurt global efforts to cut emissions cheaply.A US trade panel vote to continue a probe into Chinese imports “betrayed the insincerity of America ... in pushing climate talks while being indifferent to cutting emissions in an affordabl...

President Jacob Zuma has launched a flagship solar power plant in Hazelmere, KwaZulu-Natal, which is set to provide job opportunities.

(Reuters) - U.S.-listed solar stocks soared on Wednesday after Auriga analyst Hari Chandra slapped "buy" ratings on four companies in the battered sector, including China's Trina Solar Ltd and U.S....

OPINION:IN 1951, Samuel Lubell invented the concept of the political solar system. At any moment, he wrote, there is a Sun Party (the majority party, which drives the agenda) and a Moon Party (the minority party, which shines by reflecting the solar rays).

The United States may be known as the Saudi Arabia of coal thanks to its large deposits. But under an expected investment push, Saudi Arabia could soon become the Saudi Arabia of solar power.

As of this afternoon, Bryce Harper can close the book on his first full professional season. Harper, along with the rest of the Nationals’ contingent, concluded his Arizona Fall League season by going 2 for 3 with a triple in the Scottsdale Scorpions’ 6-2 loss to the Mesa Solar Sox. Harper was the youngest player in the league at 19 and also one of the best. Harper hit .333/.400/.634 with six ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans probing how a now-bankrupt solar panel company received a $535 million federal loan guarantee excoriated Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Thursday for his decisions on Solyndra at a hearing packed with media and spectators.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Taking responsibility for a debacle that has embarrassed the Obama administration, Energy Secretary Steven Chu says he made the final decisions on a half-billion-dollar loan to a California solar company that later went bankrupt....

Chinese solar panel manufacturers, which had virtually no presence in the U.S. market three years ago, now hold more than half of it.

The stumbles of two once-proud leaders may eventually present opportunity.

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