Bowdoin Goes 100% Green (It's Getting Hot In Here) Bowdoin College announced that it will purchase 100% of its electricity from renewable, or "green," sources as part of a continuing effort to improve sustainability and conservation practices on the 212-year old campus.
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Solar-Paneled Cars Are Coming (Red Herring) Venturi says the cars, shown at the Paris Motor Show, will be available next year.October 3, 2006 Venturi said Tuesday it is launching the world's first two solar-paneled cars, the Astrolab and the Eclectic, next year.
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Efficiency boost for solar cells (Computeractive) A new type of semiconductor material could lead to solar cells that convert almost half the light falling on them into electricity. Conventional solar cells have an efficiency of only around 25 percent because the respond to narrow range of frequencies, wasting much of the light energies.
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Evergreen Solar Partnership Official, 300 MW of Solar Modules Due ... (RenewableEnergyAccess.com) Evergreen Solar, Inc. announced the signing of a previously announced polysilicon supply agreement to allow its EverQ partnership to increase solar module production capacity from about 30 MW this year to approximately 300 MW by 2010 and possibly earlier.
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