Solar Panel
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More Singapore retail malls go solar
News Revamped and new properties in Singapore are incorporating photovoltaic technology as part of "green" strategies for their retail operations.
Tags: Green IT, Infrastructure/architecture management, Photovoltaics, Carbon Emission, Asia, Spokesperson, Singapore, solar panel, agency, Infrastructure/architecture management
Inveneo Computing Station
Reviews The Inveneo Computing Station delivers reasonably good performance for a low-power PC. It's small, but an untidy assembly means it could be more convenient to handle.
Aleutia E1
Reviews The Aleutia E1 is a creditable effort at creating a compact, low-power desktop computer. However, the current hardware platform seems a little underpowered for anything other than the most basic tasks.
China solar panel maker sets first US plant
News Suntech Power aims to boost its share of the U.S. market with a solar-panel manufacturing plant to be built in Arizona.
Tags: Green IT, Clean Technology, Suntech Power Holdings, U.S., Green IT, mW, Manufacturing, Sales, solar panel, China
Texas Instruments to launch energy-efficient chips
News The chipmaker says the Piccolo line of microcontrollers can reduce power consumption in home appliances, hybrid cars, LED lighting and solar panels.
Tags: Processors, Texas Instruments Inc., Chip, Air Conditioner, solar panel, energy efficiency, LED lighting, hybrid car, pollution, marketing
Nanotech to solve global warming by 2028
News World's dependency on fossil fuels will end, as nanotech will enable renewable sources such as solar to fully meet global energy needs by 2028, says inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil.
Tags: Nanotechnology, Green IT, Nanotechnology, Geothermal Energy, solar panel, London, Global Warming, Silicon.com, Earth, exclusive interview
Low-cost solar concentrator unwrapped
News A California startup looks to cut the cost of solar power for industrial customers with a concentrator that relies on more sheet metal and less silicon.
Tags: Green IT, Department Of Energy, Photovoltaics, Cell, Technology Review, solar cell, solar panel, sustainable development, Silicon, Mountain View
Closing the digital divide with solar Wi-Fi
Insight Two colleagues develop Wi-Fi technology designed to work where sources of electricity are unreliable.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Product development and design
Intel spins off solar cell maker SpectraWatt
News In a big commitment to clean tech, Intel-funded SpectraWatt will manufacture solar cells for panel makers starting in the middle of next year.
Tags: Processors, Green IT, Clean Technology, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., solar cell, intellectual property, processor, energy efficiency, network
Solar uptake for mobile devices 'limited'
News Photovoltaic cells will not replace batteries in mobile computing devices for now, as performance and price issues continue to hamper adoption, say analysts.
Tags: Green IT, Development/design, Battery, Photovoltaics, Mobile Device, Sharp Corp., Gartner Inc., solar cell, performance, mobile computing
eSolar bets on software to make solar cheaper
Insight newsmaker Bill Gross, the head of start-up incubator Idealab and CEO of eSolar, uses a background in Internet entrepreneurship and software to bring down the cost of utility-scale solar.
Tags: Green IT, Growth strategies and tools, Bill Gross, Renewable Energy, Idealab, CEO, Internet, U.S., California, solar energy
Toshiba muscles into solar-energy business
News Company creates unit dedicated to building large-scale power plants using solar-photovoltaic panels.
Tags: Green IT, Notebooks and tablets, Consumer Technology, Sanyo Electric Co., Photovoltaics, Carbon Emission, Sharp Corp., rechargeable battery, natural gas, systems integration
Green your IT using power management techniques
Techguide By following a disciplined path and measuring results using metrics, IT heads can make the greening of IT using power management techniques an exercise in financial success and corporate responsibility.
Tags: Data centers, Green IT, PG&E Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Green Grid, Server, energy efficiency, power management, data center, technique
The final frontier: Solar power from space
News California utility PG&E has contracted with stealth company Solaren to capture solar energy with satellites in space for delivery to Earth via radio frequency.
Tags: Green IT, Satellite, PG&E Corp., Pacific Gas & Electric, Renewable Energy, radio frequency, Earth, scientist, California, radio
Report: Smart-grid hackers could cause blackouts
News Cybersecurity experts say someone with US$500 of equipment and materials could take command and control, allowing for "en masse manipulation" of electricity service.
Tags: Hacking, Department Of Energy, CNN, Security, Cybersecurity, Blackout, Grid, data sharing, security services company, power consumption
