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self-styled "greenest government ever" has cut feed-in-tariffs for
solar power by half, doubling the length of time it will take homeowners to
receive payback and risking thousands of jobs in a growing industry in
manufacturing and installing solar panels.
Solar power is energy harnessed from the sun’s rays. It is already producing electricity and heating homes around the world, and it is truly a power source of almost unlimited potential. Properly exploited, it could meet the world’s energy demands many times over.
In the past, solar had a reputation for being uneconomic and impractical, but this is no longer the case. Rapid advances in manufacturing techniques mean that solar is now a mature technology. It is playing an increasingly important role in the mix of clean energy sources which we need to replace our current dependence on fossil fuels.
Three main types of solar power are in regular use today: photovoltaic, solar thermal, and concentrated solar plants.
Posted by jossc — 2 September 2009 at 2:58pm
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Barack Obama's grandmother now has solar panels on the roof of her home in Kenya, courtesy of Greenpeace.
Greenpeace Solar Generation Activists and local youth organisers installed the panels on "Mama Sara's" home, and also put panels on the Senator Barack Obama School in Kogelo.
Posted by jossc — 12 June 2009 at 4:36pm
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May's round up of images from around the Greenpeace world come from as far afield as Australia, where activists shut down a giant digger at the most polluting power station in the developed world; India, where we've been installing solar panels in schools; and Thailand, where volunteers canoed 350km to document the toxic damage being done to the Chao Praya, the country's most iconic river.
Posted by jossc — 22 December 2008 at 10:23am
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The tension built as the judges deliberated. Then at last the results were were all in and - ta-da! It was time to announce the winner of the first annual Greenpeace 'Emerald Paintbrush' award for greenwashing above and beyond the call of duty. Cue a quick roll on the drums, and step forward into the spotlight - BP!
The energy corporation with an income larger than most of the world's nation states has spent a lot of time and money restyling itself as being 'Beyond Petroleum' in recent years, but a trawl through their accounts quickly reveals just how empty that assertion really is - 'Back to Petroleum', more like it.
