L.L.Bean Installs Solar Panels at Flagship Store
AUGUSTA, MAINE - L.L.Bean has long been recognized as an outdoor company with strong environmental values. In 2007 the company joined the EPA's Climate Leaders Program and formalized a corporate goal to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) 20 percent by 2012. In addition to ongoing cost-effective efforts to decrease its carbon footprint, L.L.Bean was able to accelerate plans to create on-site renewable energy with the help of funding by Efficiency Maine's Commercial Grant Program. L.L.Bean¹s new 180-tube solar hot water collector array provides 100 percent of the hot water to L.L.Bean's Flagship store in Freeport, Maine.The Efficiency ...
NASA Technology Translates Into Self-Cleaning Solar Panels
Find dusting those tables and dressers a chore or a bore? Dread washing the windows? Imagine keeping dust and grime off objects spread out over an area of 25 to 50 football fields. That's the problem facing companies that deploy large-scale solar power installations, and scientists today presented the development of one solution — self-dusting solar panels ― based on technology developed for space missions to Mars.In a report at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), they described how a self-cleaning coating on the surface of solar cells ...
PV Vision Sensor Identifies Smallest Solar Cell Inconsistencies
SensoPart Industriesensorik GmbH (Wieden, Germany) expanded its program of vision sensors by adding a solution for photovoltaics: The new vision solar sensor FA 46 is the only sensor in its price category available on the market that measures each individual cell and is consequently able to identify the smallest bevel inconsistencies. Thereby, it offers ideal conditions for its use in handling areas of wafer and cell manufacturing.The vision solar sensor FA 46 examines cracks and defects of crystalline solar cells - it is simple, reliable and cost-effective. On account of its high precision, it ...
Fused Quartz, A Critical Component Of The Solar Power Industry
As the photovoltaic industry advances, the use of fused quartz becomes more vital, in creating thin films and silicon chips as well as manufacturing and laboratory ware.Much of the success of sustainable energy sources depends on the achievement of improved efficiencies, and photovoltaics are no exception. One of the primary materials that delivers superior efficiency to the solar power industry today and is helping researchers advance the technology at affordable prices - is fused quartz.Quartz glass is used in many key facets of photovoltaic (PV) cell manufacturing, including the use of furnaces, light ...
Report: Solar Energy Cheaper Than Nuclear Energy
The costs for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems have fallen steadily while construction costs for new nuclear power plants have been rising over the past decade, which now makes electricity generated from new solar installations cheaper than electricity from proposed new nuclear power plants, according to a new report published by a retired Duke University professor.Moreover, the report continues, solar costs are projected to continue its decline over the coming decade while nuclear costs are expected to rise further.The report, “Solar and Nuclear Costs — The Historic Crossover: Solar Energy is Now the Better ...
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L.L.Bean Installs Solar Panels at Flagship StoreAUGUSTA, MAINE - L.L.Bean has long been recognized as an outdoor company with strong environmental values. In 2007 the company joined the EPA’s Climate Leaders Program and formalized a corporate goal to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) 20 percent by 2012. In addition to ongoing cost-effective efforts to decrease its carbon footprint,... More of this Solar Article
NASA Technology Translates Into Self-Cleaning Solar PanelsFind dusting those tables and dressers a chore or a bore? Dread washing the windows? Imagine keeping dust and grime off objects spread out over an area of 25 to 50 football fields. That’s the problem facing companies that deploy large-scale solar power installations, and scientists today presented the development of one solution — self-dusting... More of this Solar Article
PV Vision Sensor Identifies Smallest Solar Cell InconsistenciesSensoPart Industriesensorik GmbH (Wieden, Germany) expanded its program of vision sensors by adding a solution for photovoltaics: The new vision solar sensor FA 46 is the only sensor in its price category available on the market that measures each individual cell and is consequently able to identify the smallest bevel inconsistencies. Thereby, it... More of this Solar Article
Fused Quartz, A Critical Component Of The Solar Power IndustryAs the photovoltaic industry advances, the use of fused quartz becomes more vital, in creating thin films and silicon chips as well as manufacturing and laboratory ware. Much of the success of sustainable energy sources depends on the achievement of improved efficiencies, and photovoltaics are no exception. One of the primary materials that delivers... More of this Solar Article
Report: Solar Energy Cheaper Than Nuclear EnergyThe costs for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems have fallen steadily while construction costs for new nuclear power plants have been rising over the past decade, which now makes electricity generated from new solar installations cheaper than electricity from proposed new nuclear power plants, according to a new report published by a retired Duke... More of this Solar Article
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