From the monthly archives: August 2008
Nanosolar to Accelerate Production
One of the companies at the forefront of the fight to make thin-film solar viable is Nanosolar, and they just announced some good news on their blog. They were always well capitalized, but they raised $300 million more to accelerate the expansion of their production capability, bringing [...]
Masdar invests US$230 million into German plant to produce thin film PV modules. The factory will be opened in third quarter 2009, the plant has a targeted annual production capacity of 70MW, and will create more than 180 green jobs. It will produce the world’s largest (5.7 sqauare metres) and most powerful PV modules, [...]
In the next few years the prices of silicon should fall up to 67 percent….
This information is based on confidential data from 10 industry insiders. Ths source – New Energy Finance – predicts that silicon prices could fall 67 percent by 2013, while wafer prices could drop 41 percent.
The wafers are [...]
Normaly I finished the migration. This was a headache….. -:) I had to wait for the DNS propagation almost 2 days. So now I’m with my new hoster it’s cool. I’m really happy with it. As I said in my previous post the Cirtex hosting is quite a bargain. If you use a coupon [...]
If you experienced some trouble to access my blog recently, it’s normal. I’m just changing hosting. You might ask why? Because from my location I just could not access my blog. That’s why. I don’t know why. The ping didn’t work nor the tracert. From my company’s internet connection I could access no [...]
The normal propeller wind turbines are sometimes quite dangerous to birds because of the huge sweep area of the blades and when there is wind, the propellers move fast which birds sometimes cannot see.
Vertical axis wind turbine, like this one in the video, are cool. This vertical wind turbine from mariah power has 1.2Kw [...]
We have another big solar projest. This time the realisation si gonna be in Australia. This time it is the company WorleyParsons, who strangely is inthe coal, nuclear and Canadian oil sands bussiness.Strange? Maybe not. Maybe they just feel that the time for coal are finished? That the future is the renewable [...]
New company – Biosolar- has made the backsheet for solar panels not from plastic but from cotton and castor beans. We all knows that the plastic is mostly made from petroleum based products. Using the alternate products for the fabrication process instead of the classic plastic cuts the costs about 25%.
“It’s [...]
I found this arbicle about the USB key made out of corn….. Enjoy..
This is latest drive from Hong Kong-based. Hoshino also takes a decidedly different approach than other drives that simply keep the hazardous chemicals and whatnot to a minimum, with it actually constructed out of polylactide (or PLA) made from corn that [...]
There is a company selling products which will standardise plugs and save power we all using in our gadgets.
Green Plug is an embeddable, universal, energy-efficient power technology for DC-powered devices including cell phones, PDAs, laptops, printers, digital cameras, camcorders, cordless drills, MP3 players and dozens of common devices that today require individual, custom [...]
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