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Japan eyes solar panels on all new buildings by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com May 24, 2011 A landmark along the Tokyo-Osaka railway, Sanyo's Solar Ark is 344 yards wide with an annual output of 530,000 kWh. (Credit: Sanyo) Struggling with a continuing nuclear crisis and strains on its power supplies, Japan is [...] GM to use landfill gases as an energy-saver at Orion plant by Suzanne Ashe, cnet.com May 23, 2011 As production of the fuel-efficient 2012 Chevrolet Sonic and Buick Verano begins this fall at the General Motors Orion Assembly Plant, 40 percent of the energy required to build the vehicles will come from burning [...] Solar concentrator graces university rooftop by Martin LaMonica, cnet.com April 13, 2011 Santa Clara U. has installed 60 rooftop solar collectors. (Credit: Chromasun) If concentrating sunlight works for utility-scale solar power plants, how about for heating and cooling a single building? Santa Clara University, which sits in the heart of Silicon Valley, said [...] Calif. solar plant, to be world’s largest, wins key approval by Reuters September 16, 2010 The Blythe plant will use parabolic trough technology, in which heat from mirrors generates steam that passes through turbines to create electricity. (Credit: U.S. Bureau of Land Management) The world’s largest solar power plant cleared an important hurdle [...] News: Yahoo redesigns data center, ditches carbon offsets by Tom Krazit, CNET News June 30, 2009 Yahoo thinks its plan for a new data center could eventually help the company achieve carbon-neutral status without having to resort to the purchase of carbon offsets. Yahoo's David Dibble discusses the company's plans for a Buffalo-area [...] News: Spain plugs in largest solar-tower power plant by Martin LaMonica, CNET News April 28, 2009 At Abengoa Solar's facility in Spain, mirrors heat a liquid in a tower, on right, that produces steam to make up to 20 megawatts of electricity. (Credit: Abengoa) At Abengoa Solar’s facility in Spain, mirrors heat [...] News: Oracle to buy Sun in $7.4 billion deal by Jonathan Skillings, CNET News April 20, 2009 This story has been updated. See below for details. Oracle, not IBM, will be buying Sun Microsystems. Oracle and Sun announced Monday that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun [...] Sempra Generation on Wednesday said it has signed a deal for the United States’ largest photovoltaic power plant, a 48-megawatt solar farm to be built by First Solar in Nevada. [...] A123Systems receives $69 million from GE, others by Dawn Kawamoto – CNET News April 13, 2009 12:21 PM PDT Lithium ion battery company A123Systems has received a $69 million investment round from General Electric and others, the company announced Monday. With its latest funding, A123Systems plans to expand its facilities in Massachusetts and Michigan, [...] Report: Google, Microsoft court Twitter by Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal Thursday, April 9, 2009 Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are both courting microblogging service Twitter Inc. because of its search ad revenue potential, according to a report Thursday. A Wall Street Journal blog reported that many experts think Twitter’s instant 140-character [...] |
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