AltEnToday

Looking for another source for regular alternative energy news? Go hop over to solartoday.wordpress.com and check out the ASES (American Solar Energy Society) blog (which has been up since April but only came to my attention about 20 minutes ago). There’s some interesting news to be found there in between issues of Solar Today arriving [...]

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Sunrgi, based in Hollywood, California, has introduced a concentrated integrated solar cell system that may make distributed solar cost-effective across a huge swath of land in the US. The panels, named XCPV (standing for Xtreme Concentrated PhotoVoltaics). According to cofounder Robert Block of Sunrgi, “We expect the SUNRGI system to become available for both on [...]

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The San Jose Business Journal is reporting that Hewlett Packard inked a deal today (Wednesday, June 4) with a Livermore-based company called Xtreme Energetics over a licensing deal for a new transparent-transistor solar panel technology. The article states that this new technology will generate electricity at “twice the efficiency and half the price” of current [...]

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I just flipped open this month’s Inc magazine, and saw an interesting article on “green” options for offices. One of the devices they highlighted that caught my eye was the KillAWatt EZ by a company called P3 International. This is a cool little device. Essentially, you plug your device in to this, and then plug [...]

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