Live from the Ocean Floor: New Oil Leak Widget Features 'Spillcam' | The Rundown News Blog | PBS NewsHour | PBS

Live from the Ocean Floor: New Oil Leak Widget Features 'Spillcam' | The Rundown News Blog | PBS NewsHour | PBS

SunCentric_CSI_Study_May_2010.pdf (application/pdf Object)

SunCentric_CSI_Study_May_2010.pdf An update through March 2010 Suncentric's latest report shows the results of the CPUC's CSI General
Market Program through March 2010 in a number of charts, with little
commentary. These results come primarily from publicly available data
and the California Solar Statistics site.

Global_Market_Outlook_for_Photovoltaics_until_2014.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Global_Market_Outlook_for_Photovoltaics_until_2014.pdf The EPIA Global Market Outlook for Photovoltaics (PV) from 2010 to 2014

Solar cell - Bing Wikipedia

Solar cell - Bing Wikipedia

Japan's Shimizu Corporation Proposes Solar Power MegaProject for the Moon

Japan's Shimizu Corporation Proposes Solar Power MegaProject for the Moon The Shimizu Corporation, a Japanese construction firm, has proposed building tens of thousands of square kilometers of solar cells on the moon.

National Semiconductor's SolarMagic Chipset Makes Solar Panels "Smarter"

National Semiconductor's SolarMagic Chipset Makes Solar Panels "Smarter" Pricing and Availability
Pricing for National’s SM3320-1A1 board-level system and SM3320-REF chipset is based on the solar industry standard measure of dollar-per-watt. National’s SM3320 is available now and is priced at less than 12 cents per watt, depending on volume. For more information about National’s SolarMagic products or to place an order, visit http://www.solarmagic.com.

SolarMagic Raises Solar Panel Efficiency by 20% | Fast Company

SolarMagic Raises Solar Panel Efficiency by 20% | Fast Company Solar panels suffer from being an imperfect tech, and differences between the quality of each individual cell can even affect how efficiently the whole thing works. Enter National Semiconductor, with smart solar optimizer chips.

The electronics in National Semi's "SolarMagic" chips are the "solar industry's first" in-panel solution to optimizing the electrical light-to-power efficiency of photovoltaic solar panels, according to the press release, and NS is going as far as saying this means there's a whole new class of solar panel now: Smart panels.

SolarMagic's designed to circumvent the inefficiencies caused by "age, mismatch and shade" between the different photovoltaic cells that comprise a complete solar panel. Since each cell is typically a random arrangement of large semiconducting crystals, these