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New solar power efficiency record
Sandia National Laboratories and Stirling Energy Systems have set a new solar power efficiency record of 31.25%. Whilst solar power is only suitable for use in a very small number of areas and doesn’t...
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Peel and stick solar panels
A company called Lumeta has developed stick and peel solar panels for the roof of your house. For one installation they claim to have installed 2.25kW in 34 minutes!
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What’s up with the Sun?
The Sun (the big floaty fireball, not the awful “newspaper”) has been in the news lately as it’s been predicted that the Sun may interfere with the 2012 Olympics. It’s been suggested that solar...
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The Northern Lights over the UK
A sunspot is an area of intense magnetic activity on the surface of the Sun (the photosphere) that causes it to decrease in temperature and darken. One particular sunspot (imaginatively named “Active...
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Solar wind and real wind
“Solar wind” is a colloquial term for the stream of charged particles ejected from the surface of the Sun by heat and strong magnetic fields. It is the interaction between the solar wind and Earth’s...
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