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Dirt Cheap Dye-Sensitized Solar Passes Benchmark Test

Dye-sensitized, silicon-free solar cells have passed an important viability test at a Chinese lab. Do innovations like this herald the age of cheap solar power?

30Jun2008 | Ben Ray | | Continued
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Virginia Sets Stage For Eco-War: To Coal, Or Not To Coal?

A new coal-burning power plant could bring money and needed much-jobs to rural Virginia. But environmentalists want to block the project. Who’s right?

24Jun2008 | Ben Ray | | Continued
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Solar Sailors At Home, Too: Navy Installs Solar Housing

The U.S. Navy has taken its first steps toward solar power at its Oahu base housing. Could this the start of something big?

20Jun2008 | Ben Ray | | Continued
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Clean Energy Megaplex Can’t Get On Grid

One of the largest clean energy facilities in the country is going to power San Diego–if they can figure out a way to get the power there.

16Jun2008 | Ben Ray | | Continued
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Solar Energy Achieving Parity By 2010?

Solar power, after years on the fringe of society, is beginning to enter the mainstream, and may become competitive as soon as 2010. Is the industry ready?

14Jun2008 | Ben Ray | | Continued
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Will Desalination End Worries Over Freshwater?

Desalination is essential to surviving in Saudi Arabia–can it be adapted to run cheap and clean in other parts of the world?

6Jun2008 | Ben Ray | | Continued
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Solar Power Company Ponies Up $161 Million

It’s on! Big business stocks its solar energy warchest as SunEdison socks away $160 million for unspecified investments.

29May2008 | Ben Ray | | Continued
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Hairy Solar Cells Could Mean Higher Efficiency

A new process mating nanowires with solar cells could dramatically boost the efficiency of sun power. Is “hairy” solar the next big thing?

19May2008 | Chris Baskind | | Continued
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Oil Prices Rise Again on $200 Warning

Another opening for renewable energy: Oil prices rose to record levels Tuesday after a warning that $200/barrel crude might be only 24 months away.

6May2008 | Chris Baskind | | Continued
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Magenn Power Gets its Blimp On

Canadian startup Magenn Power finally gets a scale prototype of its radical tethered airship turbine off the ground — indoors. Is this the future of windpower?

6May2008 | Chris Baskind | | Continued
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