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This product has been available from Real Goods for quite some time. Our local NPR affiliate participated in the Texas Renewable Energy Fair last year and...
... Yep, they've been around since the '20s - possibly longer. Another more recent pat. app. at ...
Neil Adams
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Apr 3, 2004 3:44 pm
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... Bill Moore EVWORLD.COM...
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Apr 3, 2004 3:44 pm
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Hi all, Imagine the possible applications for flexible solar cells http://www.spheralsolar.com/ http://www.spheralsolar.com/2_spheral-technology/ Spheral Solar...
http://www.europaworld.org/week169/europeat19304.htm 19/3/2004 Europe at the forefront in research on solar, wave and geothermal energies This week at the...
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G'day Ian Oh dear, I don't have the reference to hand but clearly remember doing some experiments in elementary physics classes n years ago where the results ...
Neil Adams
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Apr 5, 2004 2:01 pm
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http://www.starbucks.com/retail/silk_windpower.asp Wind Energy Conversion Systems WECS Electric Supply, Inc. Specialty Electrical products for Commercial Wind...
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Apr 5, 2004 2:24 pm
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... Not only flexible - but cheap, and with lower energy and environmental costs. Great news indeed - if they get made and work as well and are as cheap as...
Gar Lipow
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Apr 5, 2004 2:25 pm
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Hi Neil, Are you referring to a specific machine/design when you mention 200 W? My experience is that a fit individual can sustain something more in the 75 W...
Hi Neil, ... As a friend used to say during pool games, "it looks good on paper." My actual experience with homebrew and manufactured units is that 75 W...
I thought the main problem with flexible panels is the uneven power? With so many different angles to the sun, you will have all different voltages coming....
RVD
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Apr 5, 2004 6:59 pm
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Hi to all: If you were at Global Windpower 2004 in Chicago last week you may have already seen these pictures, and we have some preliminary data taken with the...
IIRC, the folks in the human powered vehicles arena have done some calculations in this field, and came up with figures in the area of 20-25% efficiency...
... Hi Doug. This is good news. I thought your idea was one of the most promising I'd encountered in a while when I first heard it - because it was...
Gar Lipow
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Apr 6, 2004 1:49 pm
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The silicon used is spherical so that may take care of the angle problem. RVD <RVDstudio@...> wrote:I thought the main problem with flexible panels is...
Hallo I am a research student in South Africa, and my research interests are in mitigation of methane emissions from landfills through electricity generation....
Hello Ian, ... Yep, agreed. However, if you follow the logic of Don Lancaster <http://www.tinaja.com/glib/energfun.pdf>http://www.tinaja.com/glib/energfun.pdf ...
Neil Adams
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Apr 7, 2004 10:59 am
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Perhaps. It also depends on how the unit is wired internally. Lets say you wrapped it around a circular section of a building. If it was wired so the unit was...
Anyone know if this conference is still in the works? http://www.electricitystorage.org/pubs/2004/Oostende_2004_Call_For_Pap ers.pdf The web site they give in...
Hi Neil, ... I don't have time to read it all today. It needs an editor. ;-) The first fatal flaw in his arguments is when he says, "After such temporary...
I think Neil brings up a couple of really good points. My family and I are currently planning and procuring for a lifestyle adjustment to far more sustainable...
... That is exactly another point and perhaps that is the remaining problem left to solve. If you have a PV cell in a sphere shape than at any given time, any...
RVD
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Apr 7, 2004 11:04 pm
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Frank, It is one very basic flaw in what you are saying and that is the determination of which "we" have the rights to the "use" and the timing of "while" you...
... Actually it is quite possible to provide all our energys sustainably. The reason it looks impossible is that (sorry market worshippers0 it is not something...
Gar Lipow
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Apr 8, 2004 12:39 am
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... Are they? If so, it's changed since I was reading articles on them... but that's been about a year ago. (One of the reocurring themes in those articles was...
... Perhaps you meant to post another of his articles? (This one is shooting down the viability of hydrogen as a fuel for autos.) I'm trying to follow why the...