Alternative Energy - Feeling the Heat

Lawmakers steer NASA funding toward science mission
GovExec.com - In a move aimed squarely at countering what critics say is a broad move by NASA away from its scientific mandate to explore the solar system, House appropriators have included $15 million in the agency’s fiscal 2007 appropriations bill for a robotic

Musician uses solar panels to power home studio
News 8 Austin - One Central Austin homeowner is reaping the benefits of his solar-powered home. Alex Coke is a local jazz musician who operates a studio out of his home. Being at home all day with the air conditioner, the lights and the power needed for the studio

New black pigments for solar heat management
Construction and Maintenance News, Belarus - Jul 5, 2006 The solar heat buildup of dark colored, even black, construction elements can be cut in half when using new NIR-transparent black pigments Lumogen Black FK

Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 26 Jul 2006 
SpaceRef - Jul 26 4:25 PM
Product: Report of Solar-Geophysical Activity Issued: 2006 Jul 26 2200 UTC Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center and the U.S. Air Force.Save to My Web

Solar Power Incentive Program to Restart 
KABC-TV Los Angeles - Jul 26 2:52 PM
The City Council gave the Department of Water and Power the go-ahead Wednesday to restart a program that offers rebates to customers who install solar panels on the roofs of their homes or businesses.Save to My Web

TrendSetter Solar Products, Inc. Will Help You Save Money on Your Energy Bills, on MN1.com 
[Press Release] Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance - 1 hour, 1 minute ago
TrendSetter Solar Products, Inc. has announced that CEO Dirk Atkinson will be Live on Market News First. On July 26, 2006 at 10:30am CDT the MN1.com on line Radio Hosts would like to invite you to join them in welcoming Mr.Save to My Web

July 11, 2006 
The Shorthorn - Jul 24 9:58 PM
Stars at Night are Big and Bright: 11 a.m., Planetarium, Chemistry and Physics Building. This show takes visitors on a tour of the solar system, past our neighboring stars and to the edge of the universe. Admission is $2-$5. Also showing Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday.Save to My Web

Baguio swim pool a 'white elephant': official
Sun.Star, Philippines - Jun 25, 2006 The City Government would reportedly spend P150,000 per month for the solar heating of both the Olympic-sized pool and the warm-up pool.

Architects set out to make “green” row house
Bradenton Herald - Indian slate works just fine with passive solar heat in the winter. So far, Blau and Thompson have spent about $250,000 on their house, with the radiant floor heating and solar hot water two of the most expensive additions. The solar-heating system

Sterilize soil for a garden tonic
Orange County Register - Soil sterilization through solar heat is an organic treatment. It uses the summer sun and a clear plastic sheet to cook weed seeds to death and eliminate, hopefully, nematodes and other nasties. Solar radiation generates heat up to 130 degrees. That

A Bird’s Eye View
Turkish Daily News - ready to be used in emergencies like the hospitals do, keep kerosene heaters in your homes since they can be used for heating off the lights of their homes or their air conditioning when they leave, develop alternative sources of energy [solar, wind

Architects set out to make “green” row house
Bradenton Herald - Indian slate works just fine with passive solar heat in the winter. So far, Blau and Thompson have spent about $250,000 on their house, with the radiant floor heating and solar hot water two of the most expensive additions. The solar-heating system

OK, I admit it it was hot
Winona Daily News - Maybe it s the result of generation after generation of forebears doing things like floating around in an open boat in a North Atlantic snowstorm looking for places like Iceland that instilled in me an insatiable lust for solar heat and a total

Energy confab touts power of renewables 
Denver Post - Jul 14 10:41 PM
Solar, wind, biomass and other renewable power sources, along with energy efficiency, can cut man-made greenhouse gas emissions up to 80 percent by 2030, a panel of scientists at a Denver solar energy conference said Thursday.Save to My Web

UT-Austin could soon open nanoelectronics research institute 
WOAI - Jul 15 10:03 AM
AUSTIN (AP) - The University of Texas at Austin may soon open a nanoelectronics research institute that officials hope could make the Lone Star State a major player in the emerging scientific field.Save to My Web

Crimestoppers 7/11
WLNS - The coalition wants the US to make power plants and factories more efficient and shift to cleaner technologies, such as hybrids, bio-fuels and wind and solar power. Michigan environmentalist say it can help reduce the nation’s dependence on oil and

Solar energy forum draws a big crowd
Daytona Beach News-Journal - DAYTONA BEACH — It might have been the new tax breaks, the high energy prices or Al Gore’s stern talk about global warming — or it might have been the free lunch. But about 200 people turned out Wednesday to an all-day forum on solar energy, so