Items tagged with solar

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Solar Impulse Concept Plane Unveiled Friday, June 26th, 2009 - 09:18:24 - Anuradha Menon Today, Swiss engineers unveil the Solar Impulse HB-SIA prototype plane. As the name suggests, the plane is designed to fly solely on solar power, and... read more

Planet-Hunting Method Finally Succeeds Friday, May 29th, 2009 - 16:11:05 - Anuradha Menon A long-proposed tool for hunting planets has netted its first catch -- a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest stars known. The technique... read more

Transparent Solar Cells Fitted Onto Windows Saturday, May 9th, 2009 - 14:28:47 - Anuradha Menon Solar company Konarka has developed a transparent solar cell that it hopes will be built onto electricity-generating windows. The Lowell, Mass.-based... read more

Solar Systems Around Dead Suns? Monday, April 20th, 2009 - 17:54:15 - Ehud Rattner Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have found that at least 1 in 100 white dwarf stars show evidence of... read more

Discovery Docks With Space Station Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 - 16:28:22 - Anuradha Menon The space shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station at 5:20 p.m. EDT Tuesday, delivering the final truss segment and pair of U.S... read more

Making Solar Cheaper than Coal Sunday, March 8th, 2009 - 20:37:35 - Iddo Genuth Starting in the 1970s, the Masssachussetts Institute of Technology mechanical-engineering professor had made significant contributions to solar... read more

Samsung's Ultra-Green Blue Earth Solar Phone Saturday, February 14th, 2009 - 16:39:34 - Anuradha Menon The phone is green, despite its blue color, and it's not just the integrated solar panels that make it so. The Blue Earth is made of recycled... read more

Photosynthesis Viewed in a Flash Monday, February 9th, 2009 - 15:55:56 - Sarah Gingichashvili A new method of examining the inner workings of plants has shed light on how they harvest the Sun's energy. Researchers have taken laser snapshots... read more

Tokyo Electric Plans Big Solar Plant Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 - 14:32:55 - Anuradha Menon Tokyo Electric Power is increasing its investment in solar energy with plans to build a 10-megawatt solar plant near Tokyo. The facility will be... read more

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