Our Green Streets Blog » solar http://ourgreenstreetsblog.com/wordpress a communications hub & social network for green solutions Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:08:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Students build affordable solar home http://ourgreenstreetsblog.com/wordpress/2009/09/students-build-affordable-solar-home/ http://ourgreenstreetsblog.com/wordpress/2009/09/students-build-affordable-solar-home/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:20:33 +0000 grmeyers http://ourgreenstreetsblog.com/wordpress/?p=586 Solar pathways for home-building too expensive? Not all of them. Here is a Martin LaMonica story worth reading.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10356295-54.html?tag=nl.e703

]]> http://ourgreenstreetsblog.com/wordpress/2009/09/students-build-affordable-solar-home/feed/ 0 Solar Technology Worth Seeing http://ourgreenstreetsblog.com/wordpress/2009/03/solar-technology-worth-seeing/ http://ourgreenstreetsblog.com/wordpress/2009/03/solar-technology-worth-seeing/#comments Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:13:26 +0000 grmeyers http://ourgreenstreetsblog.com/wordpress/?p=440
Used with permission from CBS Interactive, Inc., Copyright 2009 All rights reserved.

Used with permission from CBS Interactive, Inc., Copyright 2009 All rights reserved.

A diffusion furnace at 1366 Tech’s pilot lab. This piece of equipment, which uses phosphorous gas to treat the surface of silicon wafers, is typically used in solar manufacturing plants. The company, however, is developing its own manufacturing equipment to create what it calls a new “cell architecture.”

Photo by Martin LaMonica/CNET Networks

Caption by Martin LaMonica ]]> http://ourgreenstreetsblog.com/wordpress/2009/03/solar-technology-worth-seeing/feed/ 0