The Bright Future of Solar Powered Factories

Solar furnaces can produce temperatures up to 3,500 °C (6,332 °F), enough to manufacture microchips, solar cells, carbon nanotubes, hydrogen and all metals (including tungsten which has a melting point of 3,400 °C). These temperatures can be achieved in just a few seconds .

Solar furnaces not only have the potential to replace fossil fuels for the energy-intensive production of construction materials, chemicals, and high-tech products like microchips and solar cells, but they also offer additional benefits because of their pure combustion and selective heating capacities

http://www.newearth.media/bright-future-solar-powered-factories/

Work program trains unemployed oil and gas workers in solar technology

DENVER —Chris Turek, spokesman for Solar Energy International, said the company has focused on recruiting miners by going to workforce offices, other career transitioning programs and using their own connections with the coal-mining sector. He said the miners’ focus on safety, as well as their experience with mechanics and electrical engineering, can be easily transferred to the solar industry.

http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/14/work-program-trains-unemployed-oil-and-gas-workers-in-solar-technology/

Top Solar Contractors

The 2016 Top 500 Solar Contractors list recognizes the contractors coast to coast, in the United States and Canada, who are working hard, growing their businesses and contributing positively to the environment. This fifth edition of the list is our way of saying thank you and congratulations.

We can’t wait for you to flip through this issue, which is packed full of stories and opinions, new companies to the list and veterans. We even feature 38 companies that have appeared on the list all five congratulations to them!

http://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2016/07/july-2016-issue-5th-annual-2016-top-solar-contractors/

Norwich Opens Largest Solar and Energy Storage System in State

Norwich, CT – Senator Cathy Osten (D-Sprague) joined U.S Congressman Joe Courtney and other guests for the ceremonial opening the largest solar and energy storage system in the state.

The energy storage system at Mountain Ash Farm is SolarCity’s first project that uses its GridLogic control platform to provide capacity services to a utility. CMEEC will be able to remotely and instantaneously dispatch stored solar energy if there is a disruption or disturbance in the power grid within its territory.

http://patch.com/connecticut/norwich/norwich-opens-largest-solar-energy-storage-system-state

Solar Energy Is Powering New Careers And It Could Be Absorbing Coal Sector Job Losses

With the right incentives, coal industry employees could find the same gleam that their peers in the solar sector now have.  Their premise is that the growth in solar energy employment in the United States over 15 years could offset and absorb the job losses that have occurred in the domestic coal business.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2016/08/12/solar-energy-is-powering-new-careers-and-it-could-be-absorbing-coal-sector-job-losses/?yptr=yahoo#36354f7e7658

How an obscure piece of technology will help put more solar on the grid

Advanced inverters, or smart inverters, are sophisticated versions of the devices long used to convert the direct current output of solar panels into the alternating current used by consumers across the electrical grid. Whereas traditional inverters are programmed to shut off during disturbances on the electrical grid, advanced inverters can continue to operate and even assist in smoothing out an increasingly variable grid.

http://midwestenergynews.com/2016/08/09/how-an-obscure-piece-of-technology-will-help-put-more-solar-on-the-grid/

6 myths about renewable energy blown away

Imagine a world free of oil accidents, coal pollution and nuclear waste. A world where we wouldn’t have to feel helpless in the face of climate change, because we did everything we could to prevent further warming. A world where energy was clean, safe and available for all.

That world is within our reach now.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/climate-change/energyrevolution/renewable-energy-myths/