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2 unusual facts about Solar energy


Grigory Adamov

In 1930 Adamov became a professional writer and turned to the so-called 'close range science fiction' genre (dealing with Solar and Earth power employment, artificial climate change for the benefit of the Soviet Russia, etc.), his first short stories published by Znanie-Sila (Knowledge is Power) magazine.

Hangu District, Tianjin

Much of the areas electric power is generated from Solar energy, while there is also widespread use of oil resources and geothermal power, which has been heavily exploited.


André Dubonnet

He successfully sold an automobile suspension system (système Dubonnet) to General Motors, but nearly went bankrupt late in life while working on solar energy.

ESET Technical School of Engineering

The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is an international competition that challenges 20 collegiate teams to design, build, and operate the most attractive, effective, and energy-efficient solar-powered house.

Gregory Benford

According to Benford, this lens would diffuse the light from the Sun and reduce the solar energy reaching the Earth by approximately 0.5% to 1%.

JUDGEnergy

Presently, JUDGEnergy is working in areas such as China, South America, Africa and the Middle East, using technologies that harness renewable energy sources, including wind, solar and water, towards a more sustainable future for all.

MAST Academy

Some special course offerings include Marine Science, Oceanography, Solar Energy, Environmental Science, Swimming, and Water Safety.

Singapore Green Plan 2012

The Green Plan, whose idea has been introduced to the United States by Huey Johnson, has gradually phased out diesel fuel in factories and industry use, and is testing out alternative renewable energy resources, mainly hydrogen fuel and solar energy.

Solar Dynamics

:This article is about the company which manufactures solar hot-water systems, for the NASA observatory see Solar Dynamics Observatory.

St Andrews Prize for the Environment

2003 - Bunker Roy, the founder of the Barefoot College, Rajasthan, India, for bringing solar energy to remote Himalayan villages, using so-called 'barefoot engineers'.

Zome

In New Mexico, he experimented with constructing buildings of unusual geometries (calling them by his friend Steve Durkee's term: "zomes" — see "Drop City") — buildings intended to be appropriate to their environment, notably to utilize solar energy well.


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Alberta Solar Decathlon Project

It takes place biannually in October on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The teams’ houses and the sponsors’ educational exhibits form a solar ‘village.’ The public, media, industry representatives and invited dignitaries tour the homes and exhibits and learn about solar energy, energy efficiency and home design.

Aron Magner

In March 2010, Magner and The Disco Biscuits performed a benefit concert at Brooklyn’s Brooklyn Bowl which generated the revenue needed to fund and install a $30,000 solar energy system at Greenfield Elementary, a public school located in Center City Philadelphia.

Craig L. Hill

Professor Hill’s research encompasses fundamental structural and reactivity studies, Catalysis, functional nanomaterials (Nanotechnology), antiviral chemotherapy and solar energy conversion (Artificial Photosynthesis).

DDR Corp.

In 2009 DDR partnered with solar energy service provider SunEdison in an effort to advance its solar power program.

Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury

It has been a year since the events in Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus, and in that time a government-funded research project, Project Light, is built at the astronomical observatory on Mercury's north pole to conduct research into the newly discovered sub-etheric optics in hope of transmitting solar energy through hyperspace.

Martin Roscheisen

- In 2002, Roscheisen co-founded and became Chairman and CEO of the first solar energy company in Silicon Valley focused on making solar power broadly affordable: Nanosolar.

NASA Pathfinder

The new center section was topped by more-efficient silicon solar cells developed by SunPower Corporation of Sunnyvale, California, which could convert almost 19 percent of the solar energy they receive to useful electrical energy to power the craft's motors, avionics and communication systems.

Raphael Tsu

During 1985-1987 Tsu served as the amorphous silicon program group leader at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (then known as SERI, Solar Energy Research Institute) in Golden, CO.

Stellar engineering

In the season 3 (1989) episode "Take Me to Your Leader" of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, Krang, Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady use a Solar Siphon to aim towards the Sun, and store the solar energy into compact batteries, freezing the Earth making it too cold for people to resist them.

Sustainable city

It is one of the few cities with a Green mayor and is known for its strong solar energy industry.

Tirabin al-Sana

In 2011 an Israeli solar energy company Arava Power signed a contract with the Tarabin tribe in the Negev Desert to build a solar installation.

Wakawaka light

WakaWaka light is a solar energy LED light that aims to bring light to those people who live off the grid.

Wind power in New Zealand

The Institute for Solar Energy Supply Technology of the University of Kassel pilot-tested a combined power plant linking solar, wind, biogas and hydrostorage to provide load-following power around the clock, entirely from renewable sources.