Can Great Design Redeem the Parking Garage?

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Parking garages are generally considered to be a necessary evil: necessary because everyone drives; evil because they are usually drab, ugly concrete structures that take up valuable urban space. Yet in recent years, architects and designers have been working to counter this view, by adding solar panels, giving preference to hybrid cars, and g… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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2-B Energyhave developed a 2-blade downwind full jacket structure for offshore wind
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Great Lakes wind developers are feeling the squeeze from the Jones Act
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Win a Free Home Solar System

San Rafael California based solar installation company Real Goods Solar has a sweepstakes going on for homeowners who live in California and Colorado. The company says the winner will receive a free solar electric system with a retail value of $30,000 and up to 4 kilowatts DC.

It’s a full service installation and all the permits, design, engineering, installation and rebate paperwork will be done by the company.

Open to homeowners who live in California and Colorado only!

Sweepstakes closes on September 15th 2010 at 6pm PST.

Here are the Official Free Solar Electric System Sweepstakes Rules.

Here’s the Sweepstakes Form.

* Note-Solar Power Buzz has no relationship or affiliation with Real Goods Solar.

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45 Percent of Portugal’s Energy Comes from Renewable Sources
Five years ago, Portugal’s government promised that by 2010, 45% of the country’s energy will come from renewable sources (then, only 17 percent of Portugal’s grid came from renewables). Sounds impossible, but it’s true.

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Meridian and AGL to Build a 420 Megawatt Wind Farm in Victoria
AGL Energy Limited (AGL) in partnership with Meridian Energy plan to build one of the world’s largest wind farms that will be able to generate 420 MW of power, at Macarthur in Victoria, Australia. According to officials, this wind farm is expected to go online by 2013 for a cost of nearly $1 billion.

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Water-Based Lithium-Ion Batteries Performance Greatly Improved
A team at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, discovered how to improve the performance of water-based lithium-ion batteries by removing oxygen from the power cells. These batteries also have great potential for large-scale applications such as storing the energy from solar panels and wind turbines.

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AK1000: World’s Most Powerful Tidal Power Turbine Unveiled in Scotland
Atlantis Resources Corporation has unveiled the most powerful and largest tidal turbine ever built, at Invergordon in Scotland. Dubbed AK1000, the new turbine will be installed at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, Scotland, later this summer.

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EnSol’s New Transparent Coating Turns Your Windows Into Solar Cells
Norwegian company EnSol AS in collaboration with researchers at the University of Leicester are working to develop a new type of solar cell material that can be coated as a thin film onto window glass, so that windows in buildings can generate electricity on a large scale.

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Modular Renewables for the Military
The military spends a lot of money and manpower getting fossil energies to combat troops. Over the last 4 years, there have been more calls to get modular wind and solar units deployed in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Prism Solar Puts Its Product to the Test
Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation and Prism Solar Technologies of Highland, N.Y. announced that they are collaborating in a three-year, $190,000 R&D project to test the effectiveness of solar panels using Prism Solar’s holographic film.
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Minnesota Hospital Working To Build a Community Wind Farm
Juhl Wind announced that it is working with Gundersen Lutheran hospital to put up a 5-MW community wind farm. The project will be developed under the name of GL Wind and is expected to cost $10 million.
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SunWays Announces 19% Efficient Screen-printed 6" Solar Cell
Sunways announced that it was able to replicate its previously proven 19.1% efficient 5-inch silicon solar cell produced through screen-printing metallization on a 6″ standard format.
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Ford Hybrids To Be Built With Solar
People often talk about electricity technologies like solar and wind as alternatives to oil. Actually, oil is hardly used for electricity production – deploying renewable electricity devices won’t cut petroleum use. Unless, of course, you move toward electric vehicles that are manufactured and charged with clean electrons.
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