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1995
 
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Sundance Solar University of New Hampshire gets $700k to test floating 10kW wind turbine located about six miles from shore.

Source: www.boston.com
The University of New Hampshire’s Center for Ocean Renewable Energy will receive $700,000 in federal stimulus money to test the nation’s first floating deepwater wind turbine off the Isle of Shoals.
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Sundance Solar New crayon color "Eco Green"? Crayola is starting construction on their solar farm in PA. Over 26,000 solar panels, enough power to make about 1 billion crayons.

Source: www.mcall.com
With 24 shovels colored like a box of crayons, Crayola officials Thursday broke ground on a 15-acre solar farm in Forks Township expected to begin generating electricity by early next year.''Crayola has ...
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Sundance Solar If you're looking to become the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, try to solve this challenge in your garage: Storing renewable energy cheaply. In Texas, at night, they give away free electricity from wind turbines because there's no place to store it.

Source: www.chron.com
WASHINGTON — Utilities harnessing power from the wind and sun are up against a major challenge: how to store electricity so that it can be delivered to customers when the air is still and the sun has set.
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Sundance Solar Thin-film solar cells with high efficiency for $1 watt. Company plans on selling them next year. Solar power is getting cheaper and cheaper! In 1956 solar cells were $300 watt, now about $5. $1 is pretty cool!

Source: www.technologyreview.com
Solexant is printing inorganic solar cells with nanomaterials.
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Sundance Solar Made in the USA wind turbines - But the employees are working for China. Is this the future?

Source: solveclimate.com
China-based A-Power's new deal to build a $50 million wind turbine factory in the United States is about helping America meet its surging demand for wind power, the company said in its announcement.
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Sundance Solar Yikes are we busy today! Holiday orders starting early. Pretty soon we're going to have a giant "Solar Yard Sale/Moving Sale". Tell all your geeky, techie friends, we have lots of solar stuff that we're gonna move cheap! Less that we need to move to our new building!

November 16 at 12:39pm
Pamela A Lynn August
Pamela A Lynn August
Busy is good..
November 17 at 4:04am
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Sundance Solar Big NEWS! The new movie "Planet 51" features the first solar powered robot in a major Hollywood movie (I think!). The character is "Rover". I won't say he's the Jackie Robinson of solar robots, but I gotta see this movie anyway!

Source: www.planet51.com
Planet 51 - A galactic sized animated alien adventure comedy starring Dwayne Johnson as Captain Charles “Chuck” Baker. Also starring Jessica Biel and Gary Oldman.
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Sundance Solar Anonymous $1 million dollar gift sends mini solar powered spacecraft aloft. I guess like a smart car, but you can go to the moon.

Source: solar.coolerplanet.com
Boosted by an anonymous $1 million gift, the Planetary Society will soon test a small spacecraft propelled by solar energy.
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Sundance Solar Big news! Sundance Solar is moving to Hopkinton NH! We are buying a building on 3 acres, a beautiful spot next to a pond. Bigger and better! We expect to close in about a week and move in December (brrrrr!).

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But I can look out from our back door for miles and not see another human! Bet you can't say that!
November 10 at 12:32pm
Steven Alembik
Steven Alembik
Thanks but I LOVE looking at the South Florida wild life!! Blondes a plenty
November 10 at 1:21pm
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Sundance Solar 18 acres of solar panels will make M&M's. That gives the green M&M symbolic importance. Maybe they'll make a bag of all greens?

Source: www.lehighvalleylive.com
The power of the sun will now come in a hard candy shell as the Hackettstown-based manufacturer of M&M's and other confectionery treats will draw about one-fifth of its factory's electricity needs ...
Lance Thomas
Lance Thomas
my county's (Snohomish County, WA) bus system just put in a park and ride garage--with a vast array of panels. I've been meaning to take a picture....
November 10 at 8:41am
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Sundance Solar
Cool. Solar has good applications even in WA and NH where there's not great sun.
November 10 at 12:34pm
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Sundance Solar Seems like a simple idea, cold water to make cool air for Hawaii. Pilot project will cool 40 buildings.

Source: www.usnews.com
Hawaii's government plans to circulate ocean water into downtown buildings in order to cool them.
Lance Thomas
Lance Thomas
fascinating; makes me think of those tidal generators--or whatever they call those contraptions.
November 9 at 7:00am
Lance Thomas
Lance Thomas
Nevada is doing more than Washington on wind, I think. Maybe I just don't know what they're doing in this here state.
November 9 at 7:16am
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Sundance Solar One of the last remaining pristine mountains in West Virginia, Coal River Mountain is being blown up as we speak. The blasting is right next to an earthen dam holding back 8 billion gallons of coal sludge. This warrants another WTF.

Source: itsgettinghotinhere.org
Last week, blasting began on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia. This is a part of the country where dynamite routinely goes off—turning the region’s historic mountain ranges into dust for the tiny coal seams that lie beneath their surface.
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Sundance Solar Compressed air energy storage? If it works, it also sounds cheaper than batteries.

Source: www.infozine.com
By Laura Misjak - Visions of Large, Underground Vats of Compressed Air Seem More Suitable to Science Fiction Novels Than U.S. Farmlands.
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Sundance Solar Win a cool bumper sticker! First to answer this question WINS! Between 2004 and 2008 thare were 3 movies made with the word "sunshine" in the title. Name them.

November 5 at 11:58am
Rusty Flagg
Rusty Flagg
"Eternal SUNSHINE Of The Spotless Mind" ...2004
"Little Miss SUNSHINE"................................2006
"SUNSHINE Cleaning"..................................2008
November 5 at 4:26pm
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Cate wins! I should have made the former Video Pursuit employees ineligible!
November 6 at 5:58am
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Sundance Solar Evergreen Solar to move assembly of solar panels from Mass. to China. This is after receiving $58 million in state funds. WTF?

Source: www.boston.com
Evergreen Solar, which manufactures at its Devens plant the wafers and cells used in solar panels, will move the final assembly of those panels to a new plant in China.(Joanne Rathe/Globe Staff/File 2008)
Lance Thomas
Lance Thomas
WTF indeed.
November 5 at 11:34am
Steven Alembik
Steven Alembik
& this surprises you?? Ever see what Government spending has done - instead of creating a safety net they created a hammock instead
November 5 at 12:41pm