Dow Unveils Solar Power Shingles

Dow Chemical Solar Shingles that any roofer can install.
Dow Chemical has unveiled a residential roof shingle in the form of a solar panel designed to be integrated into asphalt-tiled roofs.
Jane Palmieri, managing director of Dow’s Solar Solutions unit, said the Powerhouse thin-film shingle slashes installation costs because it can be [...]

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New Battery Could Change World
In a modest building on the west side of Salt Lake City, a team of specialists in advanced materials and electrochemistry has produced what could be the single most important breakthrough for clean, alternative energy since Socrates first noted solar heating 2,400 years ago.
The prize is the culmination of 10 years [...]

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Let’s Get Real About Alternative Energy
(CNN) — We need to introduce simple arithmetic into our discussions of energy.
We need to understand how much energy our chosen lifestyles consume, we need to decide where we want that energy to come from, and we need to get on with building energy systems of sufficient size to match [...]

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BrightSource and PG&E Ink Largest Solar Energy Deal

photo: BrightSource Energy
California utility PG&E on Wednesday expanded an agreement with BrightSource Energy to buy 1,310 megawatts of carbon-free electricity to be generated by seven giant solar power plant projects – the world’s biggest solar deal to date. Coming on top of a 1,300 megawatt agreement with Southern [...]

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IBEW Sees Future in Alternative Energy Jobs
MINNEAPOLIS - Darryl Thayer, a member of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 292 in Minneapolis, hardly received a visionary’s welcome when he addressed the Minnesota legislature in 1968 about the need to develop solar energy and wean the state from fossil fuel-based sources. Worse yet, says Thayer, many of his [...]

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Solar Plug In Stations are in Chicago
Future Now: Solar Plug-in Stations
Written by Preston Koerner | April 16, 2009 | read more: Alt Energy, Green Tech, Solar

This is ChargePoint, an electrical plug-in station that’s powered and monitored through a smart network.
It was developed by Coulomb Technologies, who recently teamed [...]

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Better Times Are Coming?
By Eric Martin and Lynn Thomasson
April 10 (Bloomberg) — U.S. stocks rose for a fifth week, capping the steepest rally since 1933, as Wells Fargo & Co.’s higher-than-estimated earnings and speculation banks will pass government stress tests spurred optimism that the industry’s slump is ending.
Bank of America Corp., American Express Co. and [...]

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