Category Archives: solar energy facts

Solar electric and Solar thermal have both got a bright future in Australia and in this video we see a variety of the different technologies that are being piloted and developed at present in Australia.

Some of the opposition to solar PV farms is that they take up land that could be put to agricultural or housing use. So that's why building a solar farm over a reservoir is such a good idea.

Quite a lot actually – here is a fairly recent presentation I just came across.

Courtesy of: Solar Quotes Solar panels should face the sun – yes I know that's obvious but where do you point the panels when you install on a cloudy day? The equator that's where. In the Northern hemisphere point them … Continue reading →

Just because solar energy is clean green and is the future is no reason to expect to get funding as fast as they did. This is an amazing development that took me by surprise and now looks practical.

The Green Energy start up company, Ecotricity has just reached 100,000 customers…so where next? A conversation on that future is featured at Treehugger right here