Company’s Technology Mimics Solar Conversion and Chemical Reaction Inside Plant Leaves

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HyperSolar, Inc, the developer of a breakthrough technology to make renewable natural gas using solar power, today disclosed more information from its patent application for a process to produce renewable natural gas using sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. Inspired by the photosynthetic processes that plants use to effortlessly harness the power of the Sun to [...]

Patent Filed for Process to Make Renewable Natural Gas Using Solar Power

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Company’s breakthrough technology uses sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to produce, clean, renewable natural gas HyperSolar, Inc, the developer of a breakthrough technology to make renewable natural gas using solar power, today announced that it has filed a patent application for the production of renewable natural gas using sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. This renewable [...]

Rio Mesa

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In October 2011, BrightSource Energy filed an Application for Certification with the California Energy Commission for the development of a three 250 megawatt (nominal) solar power plants (750 megawatts nominal combined) in California’s Riverside County. If approved, the Rio Mesa Solar Electric Generating Facility (SEGF) will use BrightSource’s proprietary LPT solar thermal energy system and [...]

Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS)

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BrightSource’s LPT solar thermal system is currently being deployed at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) in California’s Mojave Desert. Ivanpah, which started construction in October 2010, is the first project that will deliver power to serve the company’s signed contracts with PG&E and Southern California Edison. The project – which counts NRG Solar, [...]

Maldives to Harness the Power of the Sun to Generate Most of the Country’s Electricity by 2020

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The Maldives will harness the power of the sun to generate most of the country’s electricity by 2020, the Ministry of Economic Development announced on last week. The Maldives ‘renewable energy investment framework’, in effect a plan for a carbon neutral energy sector, which has been published online today, includes a mandatory target for the [...]

Keeping the Chevy Volt Electric Car Green, The Renewable Powered CleanCharge System

Envision Solar Unveils CleanCharge™ Electric Vehicle Charging Station during GM’s “Volt Unplugged” U.S. Tour in San Diego Envision Solar International, Inc., a leading sustainable infrastructure designer and developer, is announcing the unveiling of its new CleanCharge™ solar-powered electric vehicle charging station integrated into EnvisionTrak™ tracking Solar Trees®. Envision Solar displayed its single vehicle CleanCharge charging [...]

California Continues to See the Light with Utility Grade Solar Thermal Power

Following the recent success of licensing solar energy facilities, the California Energy Commission today approved nearly 1,000 megawatts (MW) of solar power in Southern California. The Genesis Solar Energy Project and the Imperial Valley Solar Project, totaling 959 MW, are now the fifth and sixth solar power plants that the Energy Commission has licensed in [...]

Overview of Solar Thermal Heating Technology

Solar Thermal Energy: Harnessing the Power of the Sun. The video shows the use of solar thermal energy for heating in Europe. Examples from Denmark and Spain show the use in different climates. Interviews with users and manufacturers give a good overview of this clean energy technology. The video is provided for free by the [...]

The Solar Decathlon- Homes Powered by the Sun

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This past October, taking a walk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., might have been more like taking a walk into the future. Twenty solar-powered homes were sprawled across the mall’s west end, transforming it from a park into something that resembled an innovative new housing development. Park purists take note: the transformation was [...]

Solarized Gas Turbine System: Hybrid Power for Distributed Generation

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An Isreali company has developed what I believe is a very innovative and technically interesting product. It is also very encouraging as it may have far reaching implications for developing countries that do not have an infrastructure of centrally generated electrical power. The company is AORA-Solar and they have developed a hybrid solar power station that [...]

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