"For her 10th birthday, Nicole Kuepper received an inspirational present from her parents - her first solar-energy kit ( Read more... )

" A Spanish company is planning to take 3 square miles of desert southwest of Phoenix and turn them into one of the largest solar power plants in the world ( Read more... )

Heat-powered absorption cooling is an old idea. People had kerosene-fueled refrigerators back in the early years of the 20th century ( Read more... )

UPDATE: Yay!

" CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronauts successfully unfurled a torn solar power wing at the international space station on Saturday after spacewalker Scott Parazynski cut loose a tangled clump of wires and patched everything up.Read more... )

"Sampath has developed a continuous, automated manufacturing process for solar panels using glass coating with a cadmium telluride thin film instead of the standard high-cost crystalline silicon. Because the process produces high efficiency devices (ranging from 11% to 13%) at a very high rate and yield, it can be done much more cheaply than with ( Read more... )

UPDATE Oct 9, 2006 ( Read more... )

I like weekends. Naomi's mother came to town, and they had a good time shopping together. I got some time to work on the space elevator climber project (current odds of success: stilll 50/50), and some time playing with the kid as well. I was showing flowers to Lina, and playing with our shadows. She decided she wanted to color with chalk on our ( Read more... )

My copper powder/epoxy experiments have had mixed results (pun intended ( Read more... )