Harvesting solar energy – Ecademy

July 11th, 2010

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster that currently threatens America’s coastline from Louisiana to Florida is a wake-up call for developing clean and renewable energy sources. The havoc the spill is wreaking on the environment will …

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Got Sun… Have Power: Switching to Solar Energy : World Correspondents

July 8th, 2010

Aside from harnessing a natural resource we are all currently “roasting” under, using solar energy will decrease the use and need to churn in more fossil fuel. This will in turn slow down the degeneration of our environment’s resources.

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Solar Power System

June 1st, 2010

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Study: Solar Energy Could Fuel 28000 Jobs | N.C. Go Green

May 26th, 2010

“Everyone knows solar energy is clean. There has never been a solar spill,” said Elizabeth Ouzts, State Director of Environment North Carolina and co-author of the report. “The sun is also abundant in North Carolina and free.

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Saving Energy with Solar Power : Using Homemade Solar Panels

November 9th, 2009

Make homemade solar panels to save on cost. Learn about saving energy in your home with natural or solar power in this free video.

Expert: Peter Bonenberger
Contact: www.keepearthbeautiful.org
Bio: Peter Bonenberger and his wife founded a non-profit organization called the Bear Springs Blossom Nature Conservation. They have members from all over the country and Europe as well.
Filmmaker: Mark Sullivan

Duration : 0:1:45

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Passive Solar Air Heater Heating System Alternative Energy

October 31st, 2009

This is a video of the Passive Solar Heating System in use at http://www.envirosponsible.com in Whitby, Ontario, Canada.

It provides a great deal of heat, and the installer, Chris, will be making it more effecient by adding a second computer fan to push the warm air at the top, painting the inside better and taping the duct work. Also, the duct work will be directed into the office where the door can be closed and used in a smaller air mass.

Visit our site at envirosponsible.com or call us at 905-666-2002.

Duration : 0:2:25

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Scaling Solar Power

October 31st, 2009

(April 30, 2008) Martin Roscheisen, chief executive officer of Nanosolar, discusses solar power. The Energy Seminar meets weekly during the academic year. For a list of upcoming talks, visit the events page at the Woods Institute for the Environment website.

Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/

Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford:
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Martin Roscheisen
http://www.nanosolar.com/team.htm

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Duration : 0:56:1

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Solar Tower – EnviroMission reduces green house CO2 emission

October 23rd, 2009

EnviroMission, Ltd. (www.enviromission.com.au; US Stock Market: EVOMY, Australian Stock Exchange: EVM) is a renewable energy developer of sustainable “green” energy solutions for the energy market. EnviroMission aims to be one of Australia’s leading producers of clean renewable energy. EnviroMission holds the proprietary rights to Solar Tower technology, a large-scale renewable energy technology based on simple fundamentals of physics — hot air rises. Solar Tower technology has the potential to offer competitive renewable energy with equal reliability to fossil fuel generators.

A single 200MW Solar Tower power station will provide enough electricity to power around 400,000 households. The energy output will represent an annual saving of more than 1,960,000 tonnes of greenhouse CO2 gases from entering the environment when compared to brown coal emissions in Victoria. The greenhouse savings equate to the removal of approximately 500,000 cars from the road. The Australian Solar Tower project consists of six distinct phases, the first two of which (project optimization and pre-feasibility commercialization) have already been completed. The third phase (final feasibility), paving the way for the implementation of the next three phases (final design, construction, and commercial operation).

Duration : 0:3:11

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Solar Tower – EnviroMission reduces green house CO2 emission

October 23rd, 2009

EnviroMission, Ltd. (www.enviromission.com.au; US Stock Market: EVOMY, Australian Stock Exchange: EVM) is a renewable energy developer of sustainable “green” energy solutions for the energy market. EnviroMission aims to be one of Australia’s leading producers of clean renewable energy. EnviroMission holds the proprietary rights to Solar Tower technology, a large-scale renewable energy technology based on simple fundamentals of physics — hot air rises. Solar Tower technology has the potential to offer competitive renewable energy with equal reliability to fossil fuel generators.

A single 200MW Solar Tower power station will provide enough electricity to power around 400,000 households. The energy output will represent an annual saving of more than 1,960,000 tonnes of greenhouse CO2 gases from entering the environment when compared to brown coal emissions in Victoria. The greenhouse savings equate to the removal of approximately 500,000 cars from the road. The Australian Solar Tower project consists of six distinct phases, the first two of which (project optimization and pre-feasibility commercialization) have already been completed. The third phase (final feasibility), paving the way for the implementation of the next three phases (final design, construction, and commercial operation).

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Solar Power 101 – how does sunlight turn into electricity

October 23rd, 2009

Please sign the Declaration of Endependence at www.endependence.info/declaration .

Short and concise explanation of solar photovoltaic systems. How do they work? Do I need batteries?

Produced by the on-line local action network, Endependence.info.

Show us how you are saving energy. We’ll copy your great ideas.

Energy independence, we can’t do it alone, but we can do it together.

Duration : 0:2:4

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