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New Plastic Solar Catches 96% of Incident Light

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Caltech researchers have created a plastic solar cell that is highly efficient, cheap and bendable, paving the way for inexpensive flexible solar panels

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Flexible Solar Panels You Can Wear

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The Suntrica company has released two mini solar panels that you can strap or velcro anywhere, allowing you to charge a battery while you catch some rays or go for a hike

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Roofray Finds Your Solar Potential

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Neat little online app gives you an estimation of how solar panels would benefit you by using Google Maps to calculate your solar potential

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Solar Company Offers Panels for No Money Down

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In order to take away some of the sticker shock of installing Solar Panels, Solar City has announced a leasing program that will allow you to add solar panels to your home for no money down

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Tiny Life May Hold Key to Triple Solar Power

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Diatoms are microscopic life forms that live in the oceans, and are nature's solar collectors. By using the structures they utilize to collect solar energy, researchers at OSU and Portland State University have created a system that promises to nearly triple the amount of energy a solar cell can collect

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Cooling Homes With Solar

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The problem with air conditioning is that it takes a lot of power, thus requiring a large amount of solar panels to collect enough energy to run them. A Denver-based company has created a possible solution, an air conditioning unit that uses far less electricity

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United States Making Significant Progress Towards Alternative Power

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The U.S. has taken the lead from Germany and become the world's largest wind power producer at 25 gigawatts, and is on pace to becoming the largest solar producer as well

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Solar Panels For the 2010 Prius

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Toyota announced that it will include solar panels on the roof of the 2010 Prius to make it even more efficient

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LCD Televisions and Solar May Increase Global Warming

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Levels of a gas that is 17,000 times more potent at causing global warming are rising in the atmosphere and may increase further as solar and other electronics production rises

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Anti-Reflective Coating May Allow for Super Efficient Solar Collection

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New company claims that its Photovoltaic coating can absorb 96% of the sun's light,decreasing loss of energy as well as potentially eliminating the need for sun tracking mechanisms for solar collectors

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