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Scientist Find Key To Lock Up Solar Power
Friday 1 August 2008 – 10:10
Cambridge (MA) - If you have ever looked into installing solar panels on the roof of your home, then you may have found that the technology can cost you tens of thousands of dollars, the power gain is very limited at this time and power is only produced during daylight hours.
Solar-cell Power Conversion Requirements Keep Growing
Wednesday 23 July 2008 – 05:20
Despite continuing high solar cell average selling prices (ASPs), customers are not willing to sacrifice quantity at the expense of quality.
Worldwide solar cell installations grow 19%
Tuesday 20 March 2007 – 06:53
Solarbuzz says worldwide solar photovoltaic cell installations grew 19% and hit 1,744 Megawatts in 2006. Germany led the way with 960 MW and had 55% of the world market. Total solar cell production hit 2204 MW which is up sharply from 1656 MW in the previous year.
Wal-mart stores going solar
Monday 7 May 2007 – 11:14
The world's largest retailer Wal-Mart is converting some of its stores to solar power. ...
Solar cell maker SAS to increase production
Monday 7 November 2005 – 06:05
Solar cell maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) plans to increase its production of mono-crystalline silicon, and the company is considering extending production to multi-crystalline silicon, according to company general manager Tom Yao.

Articles & reviews

X48 Motherboard Comparison, Part 2*
Tuesday 10 June 2008 – 03:50
With all the commotion concerning Intel’s upcoming “mainstream” chipset, it’s easy to forget that the X48 Express continues to be the company’s top pick.
How to Build Your Own Solar Powered PC, Part 3*
Thursday 13 September 2007 – 01:37 in Hardware
Part I: Fundamentals Part II: PC Hardware Part III: Solar Power Equipment Part IV: Live Test Our solar panels orient themselves automatically to the sun’s position, and provide power for our solar-powered PC. A battery stores excess (or unused) power to
How to Build Your Own Solar Powered PC, Part 2*
Monday 3 September 2007 – 05:45 in Hardware
In the first installment of this series of articles we dealt with the technologies that permit solar energy to be collected and converted into electricity, to drive a solar-powered PC. In this, the second installment, we examine the components we chose
Lights on for our Solar-PC - The Live Test Begins*
Tuesday 18 September 2007 – 05:26 in Hardware
Our project over the past months: to build a PC system that is independent of the wall socket. Today, we present to you the result and kick of the live, around-the-clock test of our solar-powered PC. The power it needs is generated exclusively by solar p ...
THG Solar-Powered PC - Live Test*
Tuesday 18 September 2007 – 05:27 in Hardware
An overview of all pages of our Solar-PC, upadted every minute: current, voltage, power, battery charge, live-cam images, ad weather data from the live system.. ...