Tagged: Solar & News
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Solar-powered plane Solar Impulse sets new distance flight record News
23.05.2013 The solar-powered plane Solar Impulse has set a new distance record for a solar-powered flight as the craft has completed an 18-hour journey from Phoenix, Arizona, to Dallas,... -
NASA captures three years of the sun in three-minute video News
23.04.2013 With the sun destined to reach the peak of its 11-year solar cycle this year, NASA has released a compelling three-minute video that compresses three years of imaging of the... -
DIT and RED-T take part in €6m pan-European solar farm R&D project News
23.04.2013 DIT has joined forces with Dublin renewable energy company RED-T to embark on a three-year €6m European research project on solar energy involving 12 companies across Europe....Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, R&D, Green Tech, Green Computing, Green, Funding, Energy -
World needs a rapid expansion in low-carbon energy technologies, warns IEA News
17.04.2013 The drive to clean up the world’s energy system has stalled – these were the words of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) executive director Maria van der Hoeven, who was...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Research, Renewable Energy, R&D, Investments, Green Tech, Government, Energy, Education -
Obama homes in on clean tech in budget proposal for fiscal year 2014 News
11.04.2013 Yesterday, US President Barack Obama unveiled his US$3.8trn budget plan for fiscal year 2014. As part of his budget proposals, Obama is calling for a 40pc increase on spending... -
Renewable energy consultancy Natural Power to create 20 new jobs in Dublin News
27.03.2013 Twenty new highly skilled jobs have been created in Dublin at Natural Power, an international renewable energy consultancy specialising in onshore wind, offshore wind, tidal... -
Solar, wind and biofuels see record deployment in 2012 - report News
12.03.2013 The year 2012 has been a record year for global solar, wind and biofuels deployment, the Clean Energy Trends 2013 report reveals, while fundamental global market drivers for... -
Plasma storms the size of Earth erupt on the sun (video) News
21.02.2013 NASA sun-watching spacecraft have captured stunning video of a medium-strength solar storm on the surface of the sun, known as “coronal rain”, which projects loops of heated... -
Honda partners with SolarCity on US$65m solar fund in US News
20.02.2013 Honda is teaming up with solar power company SolarCity to create a US$65m fund so car buyers and dealerships in the US will be able to avail of discounts when installing rooftop... -
#GreenGrowth – UK energy deal could power industrialisation of Ireland’s Midlands (videos) News
25.01.2013 Mainstream Renewables’ Eddie O’Connor said the UK-Ireland Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will see Irish wind energy power homes and businesses in the UK will prove to be... -
From human battery power to harvesting solar energy: BT Young Scientist projects (video) News
11.01.2013 With 550 projects on show at this year’s BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in Dublin, a selection of students explained all about their research in the following video. -
Chinese clean-energy player Hanergy acquires solar PV maker MiaSole News
11.01.2013 Hanergy, one of China’s clean-energy giants, has bought the Californian manufacturer of thin-film solar photovoltaics (PV) MiaSole for an undisclosed sum. -
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Warren Buffett’s MidAmerican Solar buys two US solar projects for up to US$2.5bn News
03.01.2013 Renewable energy company MidAmerican Solar, part of the US billionaire and investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate, is to purchase two large-scale solar... -
Dublin solar firm ships first manufacturing unit to Germany News
13.12.2012 Nines Photovoltaics, a Dublin firm that makes manufacturing equipment to manufacture solar cell technology, has shipped its first industrial silicon wafer processing tool to... -
SolarPrint raises €1m to develop printed energy technology News
06.12.2012 Dublin start-up SolarPrint has raised €1m in funding to develop its printed solar technology that converts light from any source into energy. -
Science Review 2012 - Top 100 science stories: Nos 95-91 News
26.11.2012 We continue our countdown of Ireland’s top science and innovation stories of 2012. It was the year Dublin became the European City of Science and major scientific breakthroughs...Tags: Engineers Ireland, Engineering, Google, Innovation, Solar, Maths, Science, Science Review 2012 -
Science Review 2012 - Top 100 science stories: Nos 100-96 News
23.11.2012 Today we begin our countdown of Ireland’s top science and innovation stories of 2012. It was the year Dublin became the European City of Science and major scientific... -
Irish investment fund Solar21 to buy six solar PV farms in Italy for €25m News
27.08.2012 The Irish investment fund Solar21 is set to purchase six photovoltaic solar farms in southern Italy from the global provider of power electronic systems AEG Power Solutions in a... -
Solar-powered loo wins competition to reinvent the toilet News
15.08.2012 A solar-powered toilet that generates hydrogen and electricity has attracted the US$100,000 first prize for its designers, researchers from the California Institute of...