While President Obama busies himself with a major push for clean energy in the U.S. while trying to save the economy, it makes sense that he might have some solar panels installed at the White House. That’s the buzz about the Internet at least. And it’s not exactly a far-fetched possibility since it wouldn’t even [...]

File this one under ironic. The U.S. military is overseeing the installment of almost two dozen solar power projects in an attempt to mitigate Iraq’s energy crisis. The country which was invaded by the U.S., which many people suggest was simply to get at oil there, is in an energy crisis and the U.S. is [...]

This spring, a team in California will attempt to ignite a tiny man-made star inside a laboratory and trigger a thermonuclear reaction. In an experiment that will cost millions, these scientists will try to activate a tiny man made star that will imitate sun by setting off a thermonuclear reaction. “We are creating the conditions [...]

The piano manufacturer Steinway and Sons has just installed the largest solar powered rooftop cooling system in the world. The $875,000 system is designed to suck the moisture out of the air to keep the pianos nice and dry. The project’s financing was assisted though a grant from the New York State and Energy Research [...]

Since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina (that bitch), New Orleans has had to rebuild much of itself from scratch. The upside of that reconstruction is that a large number of homes going up there are installing solar panels. The solar panels seem to be part of a larger trend in New Orleans as organic farming [...]

Spain made a massive push into the solar power industry last year. The Spanish solar energy market saw a 100% increase over 2007 with growth of 2,661 new megawatts of power. This inflated the global solar market such that last year the cost of solar panels was extremely high. But with the a purchasing cap [...]

The founding conference for the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) took place today in Germany. It marked the beginning of the first international organization that specifically promotes renewable energy. Among IRENA’s responsibilities is the provision of advice and help for countries seeking to exploit clean and renewable energies like wind power and solar energy. They [...]

Pacific Gas & Electric, one of California’s biggest utility companies, is turning to solar power. PG&E CEO Peter Darbee (left) said the company plans to build and own solar installations. Currently, the utility purchases clean energy from third parties. Darbee said the plan is to include a large-scale solar rooftop project “in the neighborhood” of [...]

Why do we care that a Gatorade factory has some solar panles? Because it’s one of the largest customer-owned solar power projects in all of Arizona. And also because this eco-friendly factory (oxymoron?) deserves some attention since even before the solar panel installastion it had already been awarded with the U.S. Green Building Council’s Gold-level [...]

Intel Corp. recently installed a 10-kilowatt soar power installation just outside of its manufacturing plant in New Mexico. While the array of over 60 solar panels will provide juice directly into the local electricity grid Intel hopes they can eventually install solar panels to directly augment the roughly 5,000 servers at the facility to help [...]