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		<title>How to get more electricity than possible out of a solar panel</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/07/11/how-to-get-more-electricity-than-possible-out-of-a-solar-panel/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solar Energy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[If a photon hits something, something happens. In a solar cell, the photon knocks an electron out of silicon, as as you know, that is how electricity works. One photon gets to make one electron worth of electricity, maximum. Photons come in a range, one would even say a spectrum, of energy levels. And yes, &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/07/11/how-to-get-more-electricity-than-possible-out-of-a-solar-panel/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">How to get more electricity than possible out of a solar panel</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Clean Energy: Good News Bad News</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/28/clean-energy-good-news-bad-news/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2019 15:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clean Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solar Energy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[First some good news: Corporate clean energy buying surged to new record in 2018 Corporations purchased 13.4 gigawatts of clean power through long-term contracts, more than doubling 2017’s total, helped by demand from new industries and previously untrodden markets Scenery conflict (I&#8217;ll just add, that solar panels replacing some nice vistas is better than post-apocalyptic &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/28/clean-energy-good-news-bad-news/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Clean Energy: Good News Bad News</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Solar Power News and Numbers</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/23/solar-power-news-and-numbers/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solar Energy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nice to see this small grassroots level solar project in Madison, Wisconsin: a 1.4 MW rooftop solar system announced. Also in Wisconsin, there are hearings underway inconsideration of a 300 MW solar farm covering 2,500 acres. In Wisconsin, summer capacity is 16,967 MW. Wisconsin has 54,314 square miles of land, and 2,500 acres is just &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/23/solar-power-news-and-numbers/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Solar Power News and Numbers</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Clean Energy By State Interactive Map</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/07/19/interactive-solar-wind-energy-map-by-state/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clean Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Energy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is a tool produces by Environment America. Have fun with it!]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rebecca Otto’s Clean Energy Plan for Minnesota</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/09/20/rebecca-ottos-clean-energy-plan-minnesota/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clean Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Transition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota Governors Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebecca Otto]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, Minnesota Gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Otto released her energy transition plan. It an ambitious plan that puts together several elements widely considered necessary to make any such plan work, then puts them on steroids to make it work faster. To my knowledge, this is the first major plan to be proposed since the recent &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/09/20/rebecca-ottos-clean-energy-plan-minnesota/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Rebecca Otto’s Clean Energy Plan for Minnesota</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Australia Solar Thermal Plant: Messed up reporting</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/08/15/australia-solar-thermal-plant-messed-up-reporting/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clean Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solar Energy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[SolarReserve will build, for the South Australia government, a solar thermal plant rated at 150 MW, which is about 25 MW more than that government uses currently. Over time, assuming Australia goes all on clean and green, the amount of electricity used by South Australia will increase substantially, but for now, this plant will provide &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/08/15/australia-solar-thermal-plant-messed-up-reporting/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Australia Solar Thermal Plant: Messed up reporting</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why is the US Government turning back to petroleum when clean energy means JOBS JOBS JOBS?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/24/why-is-the-us-government-turning-back-to-petroleum-when-clean-energy-means-jobs-jobs-jobs/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2017 01:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Clean Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Energy Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The solar energy field now produces the larest share of jobs in US Power generation. There are 374,000 jobs i Solar right now, compared to fewer than 190,00 in coal, gas, and oil. This corresponds to shifts in the amount of electricity produced by these various sources, as indicated in the Department of Energy graph &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/24/why-is-the-us-government-turning-back-to-petroleum-when-clean-energy-means-jobs-jobs-jobs/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Why is the US Government turning back to petroleum when clean energy means JOBS JOBS JOBS?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Giant Solar Power Plants Don&#8217;t Need To Vaporize Birds</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/01/20/giant-solar-power-plants-dont-need-to-vaporize-birds/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birds Vaporizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solar Energy]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22045</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[We often hope, even assume, that technology will fix our problems. We also know that sometimes technology creates a problem. In this case, technology can help us fix the problem of needing to keep the fossil carbon in the ground by making use of the sun, but created the problem of vaporizing birds with intensely &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/01/20/giant-solar-power-plants-dont-need-to-vaporize-birds/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Giant Solar Power Plants Don&#8217;t Need To Vaporize Birds</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Patriot Panels and Freedom Volts: Don&#8217;t Tread On Me!</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/01/14/patriot-panels-and-liberty-volts-dont-tread-on-me/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2016 16:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom Volts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patriot Panels]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Nevada state government has just ruined solar energy in their state. From here, Although Nevada is one of the sunniest places in the world, there has recently been a dark cloud hovering over the rooftop solar industry in the state. Just before Christmas, Nevada’s public utility commission (PUC) gave the state’s only power company, &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/01/14/patriot-panels-and-liberty-volts-dont-tread-on-me/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Patriot Panels and Freedom Volts: Don&#8217;t Tread On Me!</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Clean Energy: The State of the States</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/10/30/clean-energy-the-state-of-the-states/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Clean Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solar Energy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the problems we have in making a quick transition to clean energy in the US is the fact that energy production and distribution is typically regulated by states, and some states are not as smart as other states. Or, if they are smart, they are controlled by political forces intent on maintaining fossil &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/10/30/clean-energy-the-state-of-the-states/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Clean Energy: The State of the States</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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