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• The Biggest Solar Energy Project Ever

  Using a source officially discovered by NASA in 1978, a small California company has perfected a way to harness the "Earth's Energy Budget," which NASA has measured at 174 Petawatts per day. 1 Petawatt of energy is enough to supply all of New York City for 10.5 years straight. And this tiny California solar company, recently featured on NBC's Today Show, just figured out how to harness these Petawatts. In less than a decade, these systems will be on nearly every home and office building in North America. Dear Reader: There's a fast-growing high-tech company in California that just unlocked one of the largest sources of energy anywhere on earth. Officially discovered by NASA in 1978, the energy source is known as the Earth's Energy Budget. And right now it stands at 174 Petawatts every single day. How much energy is in 174 Petawatts? Let me put it this way - just one Petawatt is enough to keep the electricity going in New York City for 3,846 days straight! And the company in California that I'm going to tell you about has created a way to capture those Petawatts and convert them into useable energy for homes and buildings. And, more importantly, they can do it without installing costly and ugly solar panels. In fact, dozens of buildings have already installed the company's energy converting systems, including the world famous Savoy Hotel in San Francisco and the University of Toronto. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. In the coming years, it's estimated that nearly every new home built in America will have these systems. And once installed on a mass scale, these things could eventually capture more energy in a single month than Saudi Arabia will produce in the next 50 years! This breakthrough is the next generation of building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), or solar panels built right into buildings' external structures. You see, traditional solar panels are large, unsightly and expensive. But with solar shingles and glass, the architectural design appears unchanged. Take a look at this house, which has installed the company's solar roof shingles: These little solar roof tiles can actually generate enough electricity for your entire house. I'm telling you, this development is a blockbuster, and could literally change the way we use energy forever

• Solar Energy - Myths & Facts

  Myth: Solar energy can only serve a tiny fraction of US or world electricity needs. Fact: Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology can meet electricity demand on any scale. The solar energy resource in a 100-mile-square area of Nevada could supply the U.S. with all its electricity using modestly efficient commercial PV modules. Bare in mind, the market capitalisation for pure-play solar companies has jumped from $1 billion in 2004 to over $118.3 billion today. Myth: Solar energy cannot significantly offset global warming. Fact: If the industry continues to grow by 25% per year, which is the prediction, PV in the United States will offset 10 million metric tons of CO2 per year by 2027. That's equivalent to the annual increase emitted by US electricity generation from fossil fuels. Myth: A solar device requires more energy to manufacture than it will produce in its lifetime. Fact: A PV system will produce much more energy than it consumes over its lifetime. In the worst case, the energy payback for PV is less than four years. A PV module's lifetime is typically more than 20 years. Myth: Solar is too expensive to catch on. Fact: Every solar panel purchased makes the next one cheaper. As opposed to non-renewable sources, which become scarcer and more expensive with every ton that is burned. When all is said and done, each cumulative production doubling drops the price by about 20%.

• Compressed Air: The Ultimate Fuel

  By Field Palmer All across the nation, jaws dropped in a collective gasp as markets plummeted as fast as GM's popularity after “Who Killed the Electric Car?” showboated corporate scandal on a scale only rivalled by Big Oil's dismantling of electric trolleys. If it were not for the multitude of requests I've recently received to write about the Moteur Development International Air Car I would have loved to devote my weekly Green Chip Review slot to articulate my utter abhorrence of the economic reality that is rearing its sub-prime-pocked head and baring its needle sharp canines in the face of asinine fiscal policy. But, in times of great distress I remember my colleague's catchphrase, “periods of danger and crisis are also periods of great opportunity,” and as you can imagine, that is much more comforting than pulling a Jim Cramer and crumpling into a sobbing, gibbering, sweating mess on the office floor. So come along my friends, hike up your skirts and take a line from the Foreign Legion, “March or die.” That's right, onward to one of the most promising technologies of today . . . a car that runs on compressed air. Compressed Air Technology is nothing new. Since 1896 when Rudolf Diesel made a patent claim for using a supercharger to provide a more dense charge of air to the first diesel engine, compressed air has been used to up power output in almost every internal combustion application. 1994 changed the entire name of the CAT game. Instead of using compressed air to force feed more oxygen and fuel to the engine, ex-Formula 1 designer Guy Negre of Nice, France, devised a way to make a car run purely on air. It can be refilled at modified air compressors found at gas stations for about $2 in only a matter of minutes. If a compressor is not readily available, the Air Car can simply be plugged into an outlet and an on-board compressor can refill the tanks in about four hours, giving it a range of approximately 124 miles with a top speed of 68 mph. Now, due to the sensitive nature of revealing how such a technology works, MDI has offered limited information on the drive system.

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