Hybrid Photovoltaic Solar-Thermal Collector Does Both Jobs

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Excerpt: The Turkish company, Solimpeks Corp., has launched its Volther hybrid photovoltaic-solar thermal collector, which produces electricity and hot water simultaneously. The hybrid system allows extra module heat to be absorbed to produce hot water while optimising efficiency, the company says.Histor …

Pocket-Size Folding Solar Charger Maximizes Surface Area

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Excerpt: AmbienTec has revealed a new set of solar power chargers with folding designs that the maximize the surface area of pocket-sized units.  The AmbienTec SolarFold and SolarFan solar power chargers can produce 3 minutes of talk time for every 10 minutes of charge.The AmbienTec SolarFold and Sol …

Solar Tracker Provides No Excessive Movements

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Excerpt: The Active 1000 single-axis solar tracker has a maximum of 10m2 module surface. It is equipped with a no failure-prone light sensor and provides no excessive movements. This tracker is a cost-efficient tracking system with low power consumption. Solar tracker system from PTL Solar has the capac …

Pollution-Free Yacht Powered By Solar Power Unveiled

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Excerpt: The world's largest pollution-free yacht, the PlanetSolar, was unveiled Thursday at the HDW Shipyard in Germany.Designed by a team of international engineers, PlanetSolar is a multihull white catamaran topped by about 5,300 square feet of black photovoltaic solar panels consisting of some 3 …

University Of Michigan Creates 9 Cubic Millimeter Solar Power System

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Excerpt: Advances in solar power aren't always the most immediately exciting sort of developments (a more efficient solar panel still looks like a solar panel), but this new solar power system developed at the University of Michigan certainly won't have any trouble turning a few heads. Not only is it 1,0 …

Installing Stable PV Panels On Unstable Ground

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Excerpt: Oldcastle Precast, Inc., showcases their patent pending precast ballasted footings for solar panel mounting. The patent pending footing designs are used for solar power systems that utilize Photovoltaic (PV) technologies such as fixed tilt, single axis, or dual axis trackers, or a Concentrated S …

Is The Future For Solar In Deserts Or On Rooftops?

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Excerpt: A recent study by David Anthony says that solar energy, despite all of the effort to increase its usage, still only accounts for less than one percent of the energy we consume.   The amount of solar energy that reaches the Earth's surface every hour is greater than mankind's total demand for en …

Researcher Claims A More Effient Way To Connect Solar Panels

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Excerpt: Solar arrays of the future may be more energy efficient and reliable, thanks to one researcher's efforts to reconfigure the way panels are connected. The conventional method of connecting solar panels is in a series, one after the other.But just as one bad bulb in a string of Christmas lights …

IBM Creates Solar Cell Comprised Mostly Of Earthly Elements

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Excerpt: IBM announced it has built a solar cell -- where the key layer that absorbs most of the light for conversion into electricity, is made entirely of readily-available elements -- that set a new world record for efficiency and holds potential for enabling solar cell technology to produce more energ …

New Hybrid Solar Collector Produced By Solimpeks Corp.

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Excerpt: Solimpeks Corp., a solar company based in Karatay, Turkey, has released the Volther hybrid solar collector, which produces electricity and hot water simultaneously.The product hybrid modules produced by Solimpeks Corp. allow extra module heat to be absorbed to produce hot water, thus optimizi …