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Non-profit takes solar-powered mobile technology to developing world

June 7, 2010

A Boston non-profit organization is taking technology to communities around the globe and best of all, it is doing so with solar power. Technorati Tags: Business, Energy, Non-profit organization, Renewable, Renewable energy, Solar, Solar power, Technology Related Posts:Happy World Environment DaySolar power: the future, the present and the pastNorway to start testing world’s largest wind [...]

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Happy World Environment Day

June 5, 2010

05th of June is the day we celebrate the environment. The date marked the beginning of the first UN conference on human environment, which took place between 05 and 16 June 1972. Here at Energy Refuge we celebrate the environmental all year round, writing about related issues while keeping the main focus on renewable energy. [...]

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Switching to renewable energy

May 15, 2010

This week I read a brilliant interview with Mark Jacobson (pictured, left) on the Financial Times’ Energy Source blog. Jacobson is a Stanford professor of engineering who is a strong proponent of the idea that the world could move to 100 per cent renewable power, which is music to our ears. (for more details about [...]

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MIT offers course on solar power

April 19, 2010

In order to meet the growing demand for solar power, MIT Professional Education is offering a course on solar power. The course, called Solar Energy: Capturing the Sun, will focus on core concepts related to solar power, the latest developments in the field and industry applications. Technorati Tags: Energy, Energy development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [...]

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Spain gets bigger on solar power

March 29, 2010

A 26 MWp solar free-field power plant is being built in Extremadura, Spain, by Assyce Fotovoltaica, a Spanish system integrator company. The power plant with a land area of 69 hectares should be completed by the end of the year and will generate more than 42 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. The plant’s output [...]

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