A coalition of smaller environmental groups sue the Obama administration, saying solar should go on rooftops, not on public lands.
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Why The AP’s ‘Dirty Solar’ Story Is Wildly Misleading
Forget what the AP said; including hazardous waste disposal in an analysis of solar power’s greenhouse-gas emissions hardly changes anything.
Solar Passes 100 GW, But There’s A Long Way To Go
The solar market showed strong growth in 2012, despite Europe’s struggles, and hit 100 GW, but it will take far more to become a serious player.
A DIY Solar Balloon Using Garbage Bags
The greenhouse effect is put to good use with a hot-air balloon that relies only on the sun for fuel – and you can apparently build one at home.
Smoggy China To Seek More Solar Power
How high can it go? China, once aiming for 5 gigawatts of installed solar by 2015, boosts its target to 35 GW, in part a response to deteriorating air quality.
Solar With Storage Coming To California, At A Cost
California regulators approve a power-tower solar plant with energy storage, saying the ability to produce power on demand justifies its high price.
Army’s Solar Array In New Mexico A World Beater
The largest low concentration photovoltaics project in the world begins operation at the Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
Big AZ Solar Online, Another Loan Program Win
The 150-megawatt Mesquite Solar 1 power plant, backed by a U.S. loan guarantee, is online and generating clean power for thousands of homes.
A Kickstarter For Solar: Mosaic Launches
The solar crowdfunding site Mosaic launches, aiming to give small investors a chance to back clean energy and worthy projects access to capital.
Concentrating Solar: Can Storage Save Its Bacon?
Some say CSP can’t compete with cheap PV, but the industry points to studies showing cost advantages when thermal storage is employed.
US Home Solar Tangled Up In Red Tape
More than one in three U.S. solar installers say they limit or avoid sales in certain areas because the permitting processes there are difficult.
Weaving Solar Magic With Super-Thin Fiber Cells
For the first time, a silicon-based optical fiber with solar-cell capabilities has been developed that has been shown to be scalable to many meters in length.
SD Zoo Solar-To-EV System Is The Real Deal
San Diego’s zoo gets a super-smart solar-to-EV charging system, able to operate independent of the grid, store power, send excess power to the grid or use grid power.
Solar Powered Pot Farms Sweep The Nation!
It was probably the liberal/hippie plan from the start, using solar power to go off-grid to grow pot, and now the Associated Press is all over the story.