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Pete Smith @ April 2, 2008 # 7 Comments
It had to be April 1st, didn’t it, but it was no joke. I doubt if anyone noticed, but yesterday morning while updating this site to enhance your viewing experience, some finger trouble on my part caused a Wordpress widget to go berserk and bring down the hosting server. It took about a day to [...]
Pete Smith @ December 10, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Shares in Renewable Energy Holdings (REH.L) were up today on the news that the green technologies firm has agreed a deal to purchase the Kobylany wind farm site in Poland, which will provide 30 MW of generating capacity with an accompanying off-take infrastructure and transformer station. REH will pay €68,000 per MW of generating capacity, [...]
Pete Smith @ December 7, 2007 # 7 Comments
The Department for Communities and Local Government has indicated that the necessary legislation for a more relaxed planning regime for domestic microgeneration equipment – solar panels, heat pumps, biomass boilers and combined heat and power schemes – will be published in Spring 2008. The results of a consultation paper, on the extension of householder permitted [...]
Pete Smith @ December 6, 2007 # 8 Comments
An article in last Sunday’s Observer (’How Africa’s desert sun can bring Europe power‘) describes a £5bn plan to generate electricity in the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East, and export it to Europe. More than 100 solar installations, each equipped with an array of thousands of mirrors, would generate enough power to [...]
Pete Smith @ November 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet
It’s a good job someone’s looking at increasing the supply of silicon for the solar industry (“IBM Recycles Silicon”) . In his article “Profit from the End of Cheap Oil“, Ian Cooper describes how the hopes of the solar industry to provide a viable energy alternative to oil depend on a reliable and continuing supply [...]
Pete Smith @ November 15, 2007 # One Comment
Recycled waste silicon from IBM’s chip manufacturing processes will soon be finding its way into solar panels.
A new process in IBM’s Vermont factory enables it to refurbish scrap semiconductor wafers to a standard where they can be reused in-house, and subsequently ‘retired’ to be sold on for use in the manufacture of photovoltaic cells. [...]
Pete Smith @ November 13, 2007 # 2 Comments
The Eden Project is already a world-renowned attraction and now it’s looking to add an extra edge to its success. Their latest building, the Edge, will demonstrate options for energy supply, water conservation and waste management intended to act as models of how we all might live in the next decades. From www.theedge.org :
“Its scale [...]
Pete Smith @ August 19, 2007 # One Comment
For most of us, solar power comes from solar panels that sit on the roof and generate electricity. Overwhelmingly, the core material used to convert light into power is silicon. There are regular background rumblings about the possibility of demand exceeding the supply of pure silicon, with consequences for the take-up of solar technologies. No [...]