One of my favorite scenes in Monty Python and the Holy Grail is where they start attacking the French castle with a catapult loaded with cows. An iPhone app is coming soon that will let you fling cows all you want called Monty Python Cow Tossing and it should land in the next few weeks. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘solar’
Monty Python cow tossing, Cooler Master solar case, Apple denies new in-app purchase rules
February 2nd, 2011 |
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REA Group up on solar energy farm approval
February 1st, 2011 |
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Shares of Renewable Energy Asia Group (REA Group) (REAG.SI) rose as much as 4.8% on Tuesday after it said it had received approval to build a 10 megawatt (MW) solar energy farm from Inner Mongolia authorities.
At 11:38 a.m., REA Group shares were up 2.4% at $0.215 on a volume of 560,000 shares.
REA Group will invest around 190 million yuan ($36.8 million) in the solar energy farm. In addition, the firm will develop a 250 MW wind farm and a 25 MW bio-fuel plant in the Green Energy Park in Zhenglanqi, Inner Mongolia.
"The Chinese government is supportive of the renewable energy industry in terms of subsidizing and making sure that their pricing is favourable," said Ng Kian Teck, an investment analyst at SIAS Research.
"But the bulk of the solar energy farm will be outsourced to a specialized party as REA Group is predominantly in the wind energy segment," he added.
China is planning to pump in some 5 trillion yuan between 2011 and 2020 to promote the development of its renewable energy industries, REA Group said in a statement.
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GSLO Volt Solar Charger, Apple was most popular device maker in December, Case-mate gear for Verizon iPhone
January 13th, 2011 |
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GSLO has announced that it has secured the rights to exclusively sell a new charging case in the US. The case is the Volt Solar Charger and has an internal battery and a solar panel on the back for charging on the go. Millennial Media has offered up the numbers for the mobile market based [...]
Partial solar eclipse on Tuesday
January 4th, 2011 |
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A partial solar eclipse is taking place today and is visible from Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East.
The eclipse started at 07:40 CET, and will last until 12:01 CET, the Belgrade-based Astronomical Society Ruđer Bošković said.
Flextronics to manufacture solar panels for Amonix
December 10th, 2010 |
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Flextronics International, the Singapore-based electronics manufacturer, will make solar panels in California and Nevada for Amonix Inc. to meet demand in southwestern U.S. states.
The partnership will help Amonix boost production and ship faster to markets in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado, Amonix Chief Executive Officer Brian Robertson said today in a statement.
Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard Arriving in November for $80
November 2nd, 2010 |
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The Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750 charges on solar or indoor light and can work in darkness for up to three months. The only other requirement is a Microsoft OS. – Swiss company Logitech is offering some innovation for the keyboard
still the best input device for emails and other messages, it rightly
points out. Come this November, Logitech will begin offering a not only
wireless but solar-powered keyboard, the K750.
Panels running the length of the key…
Anwell produces its first tandem junction thin film solar panel
September 27th, 2010 |
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Anwell Technologies, the global supplier of advanced manufacturing equipment and process technologies for the optical disc, OLED and solar industries says it has produced its first tandem junction thin film solar panel at its thin film solar plant in Henan, China.
Tandem junction technologies raise the power of a single junction a-Si thin film solar panel from 105W to more than 145W, allowing tandem junction panels to fetch a higher market selling price than single junction a-Si panels.
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Darco Water secures $12m water treatment project from solar player MEMC Electronic Materials
September 27th, 2010 |
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Mainboard-listed Darco Water Technologies, the provider of integrated engineering and knowledge-based water treatment solutions, today announced a RM27 million ($12 million) industrial water project to build a combined integrated solutions package for pure water production, chemical delivery, wastewater detoxification, and sewerage & grey water Treatment Systems for US-based MEMC Electronic Materials Corporation (MEMC), a leading player in the solar industry. The system is to be used in MEMC’s solar cell production facility in Malaysia.
NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft Discovers Multiplanet Solar System
August 27th, 2010 |
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The Kepler spacecraft has discovered the first-known instance of a planetary system where two planets orbit the same star, the space agency NASA announced. – NASA announced its Kepler spacecraft,
launched in March 2009, has discovered the first confirmed planetary
system with more than one planet crossing in front of, or transiting,
the same star. The transit signatures of two distinct planets, named
Kepler-9b and 9c, were seen in the data for the su…
Inventor of Low-Cost Solar Cells Awarded Millennium Technology Prize
June 10th, 2010 |
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A Swiss scientist claims the 2010 Millennium Technology Prize for the invention of low-cost solar cells that replicate photosynthesis. The nearly $1 million prize is awarded by the Technology Academy Finland. – Solar cell inventor Professor Michael Grätzel of the Lausanne
Federal Technology Institute was awarded the 2010 Millennium Prize, a
Finnish award established to steer the course of technological
development to a “more humane direction” and handed out once every two
years. Grätzels invention, the…
Gangstarr’s founder Guru dies at age 48
April 25th, 2010 |
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Keith Elam, better known as Guru and founder of Gangstarr, an innovative rap duo that arose in the 80’s , lost a long battle against cancer, multiple myeloma, which is a cancer of the white blood cells.
His family issued a public announcement:
Guru suffered from multiple myeloma for over a year. Accrued complications from this illness [...]
The rise of Big Solar: Growing pains
April 15th, 2010 |
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The price of solar panels is falling fast enough to hurt Western manufacturers, but it is not yet low enough to make the sun a competitive source of electricity
SOLAR power has become an unlovely adolescent. It used to be a sweet little thing, shiny and new and full of promise. One day it will doubtless grow into a solid citizen, quite possibly a person of substance. At the moment it is stuck in between; no longer a child to be coddled and pampered, but not yet able to pay its own way. This presents a challenge both for the governments who want to see it grow up big and strong, and the companies that have been making money out of its progress to date. No one doubts that it will continue to grow; the question is who will suffer most from the growing pains.
Solar energy is popular because it is clean and abundant. The problem is that it remains expensive. According to recent calculations by the International Energy Agency, power from photovoltaic systems (solar cells) costs $200-600 a megawatt-hour, depending on the efficiency of the installation and the discount rate applied to future output. That compares with $50-70 per MWh for onshore wind power in America, by the IEA’s reckoning, and even lower prices for power from fossil fuels, unless taxes on greenhouse-gas emissions are included. The costs of solar are dropping; in some sunny places it may, in a few years, be possible to get solar electricity as cheaply from a set of panels as from the grid, and later on for solar to compete with conventional ways of putting electricity into the grid. But for the moment there would be no significant market for solar cells were it not for government subsidies. …
Muzzari Rolls out a New Solar Charger for the iPhone
March 16th, 2010 |
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In fact it is a great idea to power your handset from the sun. Not so long ago the solar chargers for the iPhone hit the market. It should be said that most solar chargers were built into a case of some sort.
A company known as Muztach has introduced a new solar charger that is [...]
NASA Launches Solar Dynamics Observatory
February 11th, 2010 |
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A new space observatory will constantly take high-resolution images of the sun, collecting readings from inside the sun and measuring its magnetic field activity. NASA hopes the data will lead to better predictions of the solar storms that affect activities both on Earth and in space.
– In hopes of better predicting solar storms that quot;can wreak havoc on
power grids, communications systems and delicate satellites, quot; NASA Feb. 11
launched the Solar Dynamics Observatory, a satellite that will relay massive
amounts of solar data back to Earth.
The data quot;is expected …
Intel Solar Panel Installations Highlight Commitment to Green Energy
January 29th, 2010 |
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Over the next seven months, Intel will install solar panels at eight locations in four Western states that will generate about 2.5 megawatts of power. The project calls for installing the solar panels on the roofs of Intel buildings at all the sites except one. The installations are part of a larger power conservation initiative that Intel kicked off in 2001. Since that time, Intel has invested more than $30 million and has saved more than 650 million kilowatt hours using a variety of different renewable energy sources, including wind, solar, water and biomass. Intel officials say they not only want to reduce their own company’s carbon footprint, but also are investing in companies that are developing clean technology products. Intel has invested more than $125 million in more than a dozen of these clean tech companies, including $10 million in five companies in 2009. The following slides illustrate what the new solar installations will look like when completed.
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Intel Plans 8 Solar Power Installations
January 28th, 2010 |
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Intel is installing solar panels at eight locations in four Western states as part of its larger power conservation program. The new solar panel installations will generate about 2.5 megawatts of power and will all be online within the next seven months. The infrastructure announcement coincides with Intel being named the country’s top purchaser of green energy by the EPA.
– Intel in 2010 will continue its push to increase the proportion of renewable
energy used in its global operations.
The chip maker is installing new solar panels at eight locations throughout
the Western United States that will generate about 2.5
megawatts of power.
All eight solar power install…
Chip Shot: Intel Installs Solar at Eight US Campuses
January 25th, 2010 |
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Today, Intel reported new solar power contracts are in place for eight U.S. locations in four states, generating approximately 2.5 megawatts of clean energy. Intel also increased its renewable energy credits by 10 percent, which is now more than half of its U.S. electricity use, and was named again at the top of the EPA Green Power list. Detail here, or read more from Intel Sustainability VP Will Swope.
Intel Plans Eight New Solar Installations in Four States
January 25th, 2010 |
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 25, 2010 – Building on its existing portfolio of renewable energy site installations, Intel Corporation today reported that new contracts are in place to incorporate approximately 2.5 megawatts worth of new solar power projects at eight U.S. locations in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Oregon.
Special goggles, telescopes – Lucknow set for solar eclipse
January 15th, 2010 |
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Scientific institutions and schools in Lucknow have made elaborate arrangements – from acquiring special goggles to installing telescopes – for people to watch the annular solar eclipse Friday.
The Indira Gandhi Planetarium has purchased as many as 6,500 special goggles and installed several telescopes so that people can view the eclipse.
“We have made enough arrangements to [...]