D-Y to host meetings on solar energy projects

The Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District will host public information meetings Tuesday and Wednesday on a series of ground-mounted solar energy projects planned for four schools in the district.

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Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen: 'Green News Report' - May 23, 2013

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReportFACEBOOK: Green News ReportThe 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: House GOP votes again to expedite Keystone XL pipeline; New Energy Secretary Moniz declares climate change science 'not debatable'; Oklahoma tornado the 2nd...

huffingtonpost.com (1 hour ago)

New Bush Fellowship recipient to pursue growth of deep winter, local foods economy

West Central TribuneMILAN - Chuck Waibel and his spouse and business partner, Carol Ford wrote the book on how to build a passive solar greenhouse and economically raise greens in the deep...

wctrib.com (2 hours ago)

Freetown changes fees for building solar power projects

Owning a solar farm in town became more financially feasible recently. At the request of Borrego Solar, the town reassessed its fees for solar projects, which was formerly equivalent to its commercial building square footage rate of 40 cents a square foot.

heraldnews.com (3 hours ago)

Solar tax credit bill clears committee

Despite confusion over the proposal, a state Senate panel agreed Thursday to move legislation aimed at curbing the spiraling cost to the state on a tax credit for wind and solar systems. State Rep. Erich Ponti, R-Baton Rouge, told the Senate Committe...

theadvocate.com (5 hours ago)

Stemming a race to the bottom

The Solar 2013 conference in Melbourne carries the theme of an industry trying to prevent a possible race to the bottom, where weaker firms damage the industry in compromising quality for price.

businessspectator.com.au (5 hours ago)

The real price of solar

Are solar panels as cheap as they seem to Australian consumers?

businessspectator.com.au (7 hours ago)

Decision coming soon on controversial solar array near prairie

The Alachua County Commission will rule soon on a controversial request to put a solar array into a neighborhood near Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park -- a project for which the Planning Commission and county staff have issued opposing recommendations.

gainesville.com (7 hours ago)

Solar plane completes second leg of cross-country flight in Texas

Logs over 18 hours in the air to cover 823 nautical miles.

businessspectator.com.au (8 hours ago)

EU denies breakdown in solar panel talks

Chinese industry association says offer rebuffed by European Commission.

businessspectator.com.au (8 hours ago)

Saudi's win-win in a solar boom

A slide in solar power costs and a surge in oil prices has made solar a win-win strategy for the oil and gas rich countries of the Gulf.

businessspectator.com.au (8 hours ago)

Solar-Powered Plane Breaks World Record for Distance

wired.com (8 hours ago)

Keith Jarrett/Standards Trio: Somewhere – review

This release by Keith Jarrett's celebrated Standards Trio in the group's 30th year was recorded live four years ago – so it's safe to say that the fastidious leader must now be happy with this set of improvisations on classics, including the West Side Story title track, Miles Davis's Solar, and two originals. The...

guardian.co.uk (9 hours ago)

Solar Airplane Flies Backward on Record-Setting Flight

Solar Impulse pilot André Borschberg completed a record-setting flight in the wee hours this morning after flying more than 950 miles on solar power alone, even if he was, strictly speaking, going backward for part of the trip. His impressive ...

wired.com (9 hours ago)

The Global Solar Cartel

Subsidies, then tariffs, and now fixing prices and quotas.

wsj.com (10 hours ago)

Mamta Patel Nagaraja: How To Use Videos To Inspire Students To Think About Scientific Principles

Editor's Note: This post is part of HuffPost's Girls in STEM mentorship program. For more information, check out our big news page here. We hear it too often. Our nation must out-innovate the world to remain internationally competitive. We must increase the number of women in science, technology, engineering, and...

huffingtonpost.com (11 hours ago)

U.S. Army Creates Shoebox-Size Universal Battery Charger

It charges eight batteries and two USB devices at once. Battery chargers are finally getting a military upgrade. This is big! Not in a literal sense-that honor goes to the previous battery charger used by the U.S. Army, which was the size of a suitcase and either vehicle-mounted or left to rest on a table. It was...

popsci.com (11 hours ago)

Tomorrow's Galactic Explorers Could Use Pulsars as Interstellar GPS

Space is so ludicrously vast that keeping a precise fix on our spacecraft-even within the solar system-is really tough. So rather than track them from afar, a team of researchers want spacecraft to govern themselves-using pulsars. For every astronomical unit (AU) between the Earth and the craft, ground control loses...

gizmodo.com (11 hours ago)

Marissa Meyer's Big Buy

Tumblr's 2012 revenue was just $13m leading analysts to suggest Yahoo had overpaid for the deal.   Tumblr launched on 19 February 2007 with Jupiter in Sagittarius moving towards a conjunction with Pluto with Jupiter in a lucky square to Uranus.  It doesn’t sit very comfortably with Yahoo since T’s Mars in Capricorn...

ivillage.com (12 hours ago)

Solar umbrella a winner in UCSD competition

Ten undergraduate student teams competed in the UC San Diego competition.

utsandiego.com (12 hours ago)

EU denies breakdown in solar panel talks

foxbusiness.com (12 hours ago)

Solar plane completes second leg of cross-country flight in Texas

DALLAS (Reuters) - A solar airplane that developers hope to eventually pilot around the globe landed safely on Thursday in Texas, completing the second and longest leg of an attempt to fly across the United States powered only by the sun.

reuters.com (12 hours ago)

EU denies breakdown in solar panel talks

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission rejected Chinese trade association statements that talks to resolve a dispute over allegations of dumping of solar panels had broken down, while Chinese comments highlighted risks the dispute could escalate.

reuters.com (12 hours ago)

China Solar Firms Try to Avoid Tariffs

Chinese solar-panel manufacturers are open to raising prices and limiting exports to the EU as a way to avoid steep tariffs on solar-panel exports

wsj.com (13 hours ago)

Solar subsidies don't merit costly trade war with China

Who will win a solar trade war? Coal, gas, oil, and rival green energy sources.

cnn.com (13 hours ago)

China Solar Firms Try to Avoid EU Tariffs

Chinese solar-panel manufacturers are open to raising prices and limiting exports to the EU as a way to avoid steep tariffs on solar-panel exports

wsj.com (13 hours ago)

Video: Watch: Biggest solar storm of the year

Telescopes from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured video of two large solar flares erupting off of the sun, one of which was the largest of the year.

cbsnews.com (15 hours ago)

Solar plane set to make flight history

May 23 - Swiss pilots seeks to make flight history by setting a new distance record on their solar-powered plane. Jessica Gray reports.

reuters.com (15 hours ago)

Is It Worth It For Governments To Invest Money On Developing Cutting Edge Supercomputers?

Here is a list of things that supercomputers are used for: Aerodynamics simulations (cars, aircraft, spacecraft design, usually for energy efficiency and/or speed) Fluid dynamics (how dragonflies fly, how water drains in a sink, how hot gas gets forced through a jet, combustion, or rocket engine, how oil flows deep...

forbes.com (15 hours ago)

Chinese Solar Firms Try to Avoid EU Tariffs

Chinese solar-panel manufacturers are open to raising prices and limiting exports to the EU as a way to avoid steep tariffs on solar-panel exports

wsj.com (15 hours ago)