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Some coronal mass ejections (CMEs) produce violent radiation storms, and some do not. The trick is to identify the ones that can produce dangerous radiation, so that astronauts and satellite operators can be warned ahead of time. Now researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center may have found a way to do just that.

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Paramount Farms, the world’s largest vertically integrated supplier of pistachios and almonds, today announced the opening of a 1.1 mega-watt, $7.5 million solar plant in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Spanning eight acres, it is the largest privately-owned, operating solar plant in the United States. (Photo: Business Wire) 
Supported by the 2007 California Solar Initiative, the $7.5 [...]

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SolarCity, a community-wide installer of solar systems, has completed two additional cooperative solar power programs to enable and accelerate the migration to renewable energy sources.
In the communities of Mountain View and Woodside, California, residents together subscribed to 557kW of renewable, neighborhood-produced energy during the six-week program, which completed on April 30. SolarCity will complete installation [...]

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By MARK SVENVOLD
Mike Strizki’s house, the house of the future, the revolutionary house that might very well change our lives forever, is an unremarkable two-story, 3,000-square-foot, white colonial-style kit home in front of which, one rainy day last November, were parked no fewer than seven trucks and cars, a pair of Jet Skis, a speedboat [...]

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Once you get over the fact that not even tinted windows, a subwoofer, and Snoop Dogg riding shotgun would make the Maranello IV electric car ‘cool’, you can forget all about the image worries seeded in our imaginations by endless streams of glossy car ads and begin to think about driving and car ownership in [...]

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A mirror alignment measurement device may soon make one of the most popular solar collector systems, parabolic troughs, more affordable and energy efficient.

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By Charlie Demerjian
APPLIED MATERIALS is getting into the solar power business in a big way, and its customers are starting to break cover. One of them, Signet Solar, had its coming out party today.
Signet is aiming its panels at larger scale solar installations, partially because it makes larger panels. Most current solar panel are in [...]

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SEOUL, South Korea, May 15 — SunPower Corporation , a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency, commercially available solar cells, solar panels, and solar systems, today announced that its subsidiary, PowerLight Corp., has completed construction of Mungyeong SP Solar Mountain, a 2.2-megawatt solar electric power plant in Mungyeong, Korea. The plant is comprised of 10,500 panels [...]

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State bill would correct flaw in ‘roofs’ program.
By Timm Herdt
SACRAMENTO State lawmakers are poised to fast-track an emergency bill designed to fix a “glitch” in California’s heralded “Million Solar Roofs” program that was supposed to encourage homeowners to install solar energy units but ended up scaring them off.

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By Michael Kanellos
One of the big problems with solar power has been that it costs more than electricity generated by conventional means. But some experts think that, under certain circumstances, the premium for solar power can be erased, without subsidies or dramatic technical breakthroughs.

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