The firm behind the plan to build a power-generating solar tower (also described as a solar chimney) - touted as the world's tallest structure - in Outback New South Wales is to sign an agreement to buy the site.

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A startup promises to install solar panels on your roof for free, and sell you the power for pennies. Is it a revolution, or clean-energy vaporware?

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The basic idea is to convert an older non-working gas mower into an electric powered mower by replacing the gas engine with an electric motor that runs from a 12 volt battery.

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--Silicon Valley is poised to become the center of the growing alternative energy industry, just like it was the home of computing, experts said on Friday at an economic conference.

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A major British electrical retailer is selling solar panels in high street shops for the first time.

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There's a community movement emerging in Toronto, one that's poised to spread across the country as more citizens take control of their own electricity needs and do their part to tackle urban smog.

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Fueled by rocketing oil prices and environmental concerns, the market for solar power products is already blazing, and an increasing appetite for electricity is seen driving even stronger gains in the future.

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Extend your wireless signal to the backyard the green way. For the DIY who loves a great great practicle project. Popular Science has this great artilcle online.

Network Your Backyard

Network Your Backyard: Detailed instructions

The idea that a profit can be made on solar, wind, biofuel, ethanol and other alternatives to oil and natural gas have Silicon Valley venture capital firms betting record amounts of money on new energy technologies.

And they would prefer people stop calling it "alternative energy."

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Apparently it’s the first fully professional solar powered recording studio in the UK. It was built using recycled materials where this was possible, and the electronics right down to the air conditioning is adapted to managing with a low energy demand.

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