Archive for December, 2009
There Oughta Be A Law – Solar Thermal On Every Home
December 17th, 2009 | 
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People typically don’t think of installing solar thermal when they build or retrofit their homes. Most people just don’t follow renewable energy news and have just have never thought of it. (Just like most of us wouldn’t know to build our homes to be earthquake-proof either if it wasn’t in our building code.)
A requirement to add solar thermal into building codes can be the best driver of change that has benefits for everybody, by reducing fossil energy use by from 60% to 80%.
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Tags: building codes, Thin Film Solar, thin film solar panel | 
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Driving down thin film costs
As the solar market rebounds thin-film technologies are poised to successfully compete against conventional, crystalline silicon-based modules and other sources of electricity.
....Driving down thin film costs
As the solar market rebounds thin-film technologies are poised to successfully compete against conventional, crystalline silicon-based modules and other sources of electricity.
....Waste Heat From Data Center to Warm a Conservatory
Just as data farms need to have that warmth removed, day in/day out, greenhouses, by contrast, need a supply of consistent warmth, summer and winter.
Put the two together and you have a marriage made in heaven. For example; between the Ella Morris and Muessel-Ellison Botanical Conservatories and Potawatomi Greenhouse and Indiana’s University of Notre Dame.
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Tags: conservatory, data center, Ella Morris and Muessel-Ellison Botanical Conservatorie, energy reductions, recycling heat, Thin Film Solar, thin film solar panel, University of Notre Dame, waste heat |
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COP15: Consensus Reached on Setting Up Climate Innovation Centers for Technology Transfer
India’s proposal to set up a network of climate innovation centers across the world for the development of affordable clean energy technologies for the developing and poor countries has gained approval ‘in-principle’ at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference.
The issue of technology transfer has been a contentious one with the developed countries fearing loss of billions of dollars once their companies share or give up the intellectual property rights for the clean energy technologies. The developing countries, on the other hand, demand access to clean energy technologies so that they can improve their power generation and manufacturing efficiencies to reduce their carbon emission outputs.
Although the details of this proposal have not been worked out yet, it seems to be a much better solution to the proposal of actual transfer of clean energy technologies to the developed and poor countries. Through CICs the developed and developing countries can collaborate on developing affordable clean energy technologies best suited for the local conditions.