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It seems like only yesterday that the German solar company SolarWorld was leading the charge to pound China and Taiwan with solar tariffs for allegedly dumping cheap, government-subsidized solar cells on the US market. That action has touched off a slugfest among competing interests in the US solar industry, but apparently the Energy Department has stayed out of the fray.

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Georgia has not done the best of the US states in adopting solar power. At the same time, it has installed about 138 MW, so it ranks 15th nationally. The state’s utility, Georgia Power, has not been very open to renewable energy, even though Georgia has very strong solar potential. Up until now, it seems most of this potential has

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When you think Las Vegas you might not think about sustainability, but that’s all starting to change – in a big way. MGM Resorts announced that it has installed the largest rooftop solar array in the US – the second biggest in the entire world – on top of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. Now, before you get too

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The blazing Sahara sun may power homes a world away by 2018. The people behind a new $13 million project called TuNur farm propose to build a massive 100-square-kilometer solar farm in Tunisia. The farm would then connect directly to the UK, pumping energy through a 280-mile-long underwater cable. The mega solar farm would be made up of thousands of

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Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have discovered exceptional properties in a garnet material that could enable development of higher-energy battery designs. The ORNL-led team used scanning transmission electron microscopy to take an atomic-level look at a cubic garnet material called LLZO. The researchers found the material to be highly stable in a range of aqueous

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New world record: Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) increased the manufacturing speed of electrode foils coated batch-wise by a factor of three — to 100 meters per minute. This was achieved by a flexible slot die process that enables production of any pattern with high precision and at high speeds. Thanks to the patented new technology, electrode

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Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have developed a commonsense way to lower the cost of solar panels, focusing on their most expensive component: silicon. “We’re using less expensive raw materials and smaller amounts of them [and] we have fewer production steps and our total energy consumption is potentially lower,” Fredrik Martinsen and Ursula Gibson of

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China’s electric vehicle industry is looking to make itself competitive by creating vehicles that can appeal to both low-end and high-end buyers alike as the country attempts to reduce pollution levels, reports the Guangzhou-based Time Weekly. There are three factors affecting the successful promotion of electric cars: quality products, good complementary accessories and having smart business models, an industry expert

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CleanTechnica readers are very well aware that most solar and EV market research forecasts are utter shite. Most of us are horrible fortune tellers, and market research firms covering disruptive technologies don’t seem to have much of an advantage there. Many of you are also well aware that most of the news about technology breakthroughs is hype, at best, and

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Murata invites visitors to Electronica to come to their stand, B5 – 107, and view the latest innovations in component technology. With the theme of “Shaping the world through innovation”, all the demonstrations and new products will be based on a variety of concepts suitable for use in automotive, consumer, healthcare, industrial, security and energy applications. Recommended: Infineon Syndicates €1.55

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