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Solar Panels Fuel Air Conditioner in Scottsdale Schools

Mountainside Middle School and Desert Mountain High School, both within the Scottsdale Unified School District, will share the world’s largest solar-powered air-conditioning unit starting this fall, officials said.
Imagine 500 feet of solar panels!  In the fall, this huge array of solar panels will provide the energy for a 500 ton air conditioning unit for a [...]

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Solar Panel Manufacturers Moving to China

Solar panel manufacturing jobs are moving to China.  One of the major solar panel plants in the U.S., Evergreen Solar is moving its assembly plant to China. 
According to a report from the Boston Globe:
Little more than a year after cutting the ribbon at a new factory in Devens built with more than $58 million in [...]

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From the Sun to Solar Energy: Solar Cells

The first thing to know is that solar cells directly convert the sun’s energy into electricity.  That may sound easy enough, but what makes solar cells work?
There are a few words we need to know to get started.

Solar cells are photovolatic cells.
Modules are a group of photovolaic cells.

Taking apart the word photovoltaic, we see photo [...]

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Which Solar Panels for You

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