Category: Photovoltaics

From time to time I come across content on other sites that I recommend to 2GreenEnergy readers. Here’s a webinar called “Is There Hope for Solar?” — produced by my new-found friends at The Energy Collective.

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For anyone who may be interested, here’s a link to an article Shannon Combs wrote on an apparent breakthrough at the University of Illinois in the use of gallium arsenide in photovoltaics.

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Frequent contributor Jim Gilbeau writes that he and Jeff Bertsch started a new solar business, which he describes as follows: Once elected, President Obama asked America’s business capitalists/entrepreneurs to use their abilities, to think up new and creative ideas to …

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Continuing my discussion of solar energy from yesterday …. The intermittent nature of solar energy also raises questions on its feasibility in certain geographies. The Mojave Desert may get a lot of sun, but the same is not true for …

Is Solar Energy Over-Hyped? – Continued – By Guest-blogger Anil Read More »

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With the increasing usage of renewable sources for energy generation, solar energy is touted as one of the most readily available renewable sources of energy. It will not be incorrect to say that green energy is in vogue these days …

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Dr. Kelly Truman was good enough to update me on what I have to call a textbook success of the business he started with his partner CEO Chris Gronot.  Solyndra, a venture-capitalized photo-voltaics company, is based in Fremont, CA — …

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I just got off the phone with a man I think of as “one of the good guys.” Jim Riggins, retired from the Air Force, now volunteers to “spread the gospel” of the National Solar Tour, through his work at …

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