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Heliostats… Bringing Light to the Core

Monday, May 28th, 2007

One of the things I love about the revolution in technologies at the moment is the shift from Brute Force approaches to problems, based on cheap energy and resources to smarter design based on minimising energy and resource use.
The ingenuity of these approaches were often thought up in another era.
In an age gone by when [...]

Half price solar panels, 1/4 price by 2010

Friday, May 11th, 2007

The cost of solar PV is dropping - or will shortly according to solar PV concentrator manufacturer Soliant Energy.
Solar concentrator technologies allow the same level of light to be captured often as a traditional panel technology. However they drastically reduce the cost of the photovoltaic components by concentrating the incident sunlight onto a much smaller [...]