Mandatory solar panels in German town of Marburg

The central German town of Marburg is the first in German to make solar panels mandatory for almost all rooftops of private and commercial buildings. The controversial new law requires a solar panel…

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Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Panels

Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology uses the sunlight to produce electricity. PV cell is the smallest element in the PV system. A PV cell is made up of two thin layers of semi-conducting material…

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Applications of Photovoltaic PV Power Today

PV power, definitely, is not just the energy of the future. Thousands of PV systems are used in the world today for a variety of applications because they can be easily adapted to…

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Dream Big: Solar Future

Solar energy has captured the human imagination and the news like the previous one about building solar-powered speedboat shows that high quality solar technology exists here and now. The story sounds somewhat distant…

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First Solar-Powered Speedboat

The world’s first solar-powered speedboat Czeers Credit: Czeers Recently was announced that two Dutch researchers at the Technical University of Delft – Nils Beers and David Czap managed to develop the world’s first…

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The Flight of Solar-Powered Aircraft Helios

Here is a video showing compilation of test flights of the solar-powered, remotely piloted NASA’s Helios aircraft. Helios set out from Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands before 9:00 AM on Monday, August 13,…

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More Key Steps in Photovoltaic History

The world’s most advanced solar-powered airplane Icare Credit: University of Stuttgart, Germany In 1955, the first solar-powered automobile was publicly demonstrated in Chicago. It was a 15-inch Sunmobile built by William G. Cobb…

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