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Solar Race Raising Awareness About Sustainability
When is a race not necessarily about speed? Introducing the ZERO Emissions Race where completely all-electric vehicles race around the world in 80 days to determine not only which car is the fastest, but which car is the most efficient, practical and affordable. “This race is not about speed,” said Jill Hansen, US marketing manager [...]
States That Consume the Least Amount of Electricity Are Great Candidates for Energy Efficient Solutions
By: John K. Norris, Contributing Writer to MyEnergySolution.com Recently, the San Diego Union-Tribune published data indicating that the individuals in states that use the least amount of power, pay some of the highest electricity rates in the country. This seems to be counter-intuitive but the reason is fairly simple: utility companies have to spread the costs [...]
The Recovery Act: Cutting Costs and Upping Capacity
Yesterday, Secretary Chu joined Vice President Joe Biden at the White House to help unveil a new report on how investments made through the Recovery Act have been impacting innovation. While the report analyzed several major sectors, its most striking findings centered on energy. The Recovery Act and Department of Energy investments in a range [...]
Disturbed Land Becomes Destination for Solar Farms
One of environmentalists’ major concerns about adding solar farms in places such as the Mojave Desert is the destruction of land and disturbance of the natural habitat. But what if that land was already destroyed due to salt contamination from over-irrigation? Could these environmentalists bear to place a solar farm over this disturbed land? Right [...]
New Breakthrough in Solar Cell Efficiency
A major downfall of solar power has been its inability to combine both the sun’s light and heat to perform at maximum efficiency. For a while now, we only have been able to utilize one or the other. Solar panels capture the sun’s light to create electricity and solar thermal captures the heat. Recently, Stanford [...]
Cutting Edge Solar Farm
From time to time, the Clean Energy Experts team likes to highlight different companies that are making a big difference in the advancement of green energy and green technologies. Today, we wanted to show an incredible video highlighting a joint American-Israeli solar power project in Israel that pushing the envelope in terms of extracting greater and [...]
