From Booklist Reviewed with Christine Petersen’s Wind Power.Gr. 3-5. The familiar small, square format and the large, well-spaced type of volumes in the long-running True Book umbrella series have been preserved in this new offshoot, Environment & Conservation. Petersen provides readers with a lucid picture of the sun and wind as natural forces before introducing [...]
Its budget time for the federal government. While the news has been buzzing about the deficit and cuts in funding, the Department of Energy announced that approximately $12 million has been allotted for solar R&D. The federal funds will largely be provided to several solar photovoltaics (PV) projects that are undertaken in conjunction with the [...]
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Europe’s biggest space company, EADS Astrium (an aerospace subsidiary of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company), has announced that its entering the field of space-based solar power. Over the past few years, there has been a lot of talk about space solar power – also known as SSP – but many have dismissed the [...]
