http://www.solarmerchant.com Your first step for Solar enrgy on the net. en-us Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:33:11 CST Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:33:11 CST http://www.solarmerchant.com/ Your first step for Solar enrgy on the net. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:33:11 CST http://www.solarmerchant.com/articles/581/solar-panel-... Why are Solar power and Solar Panels Important? By: Gugu Maseko We have ways to heat our water, our homes and provide us with electricity. We probably take all of this for granted and if we lost them we would probably panic. We take for granted that these conveniences will be there for us from now on. We expect glitches to happen but we wan... 2009-02-11 http://www.solarmerchant.com/articles/1014/Solar-Cells... The SUN offers much more energy than we could consume! The purpose of the contemporary human is to achieve a personal comfort increasingly high. In terms of contemporary art, to increase comfort, fall back on exaggerated growth of energy consumption. At the current rate, approximately 400 years after the beginnings of industrialization, the world... 2009-01-27 http://www.solarmerchant.com/articles/589/Solar-energy... Solar Energy Collecting as an Alternative Energy SourcePhotovoltaic cells those black squares an array of which comprises a solar panel are getting more efficient, and gradually less expensive, all the time, thanks to ever-better designs which all them to focus the gathered sunlight on a more and more concentrated point. The size of the cells is ... 2009-01-21 http://www.solarmerchant.com/articles/590/Photovoltaic... Photovoltaicfor Alternative EnergyThere are many different forms in which alternative energy is available. One of these is solar power. Solar power is driven by photovoltaic cells, and these are progressively getting less expensive and more advanced. Solar energy power can be used for electricity, heating, and making hot water. Solar energy... 2009-01-21 http://www.solarmerchant.com/articles/608/Solar-Power... Learn How To Make Solar Power Work for You by: Linda Allen There has never been a better time than now to take advantage of the numerous benefits of solar power. Many states have made solar power affordable, cost effective, providing a 10% return on investment and in many cases solar power will pay for itself almost instantly. The utiliza... 2009-01-21 http://www.solarmerchant.com/articles/609/Alternative-energy... Investing in Alternative Energy StocksAlternative energy stock portfolios are a great part of a modern investor's financial plan, due to the fac that there is so much upward potential. These make excellent long term growth investment vehicles, and the money put into them by you, the investor, serves to further the cause of implementing the altern... 2009-01-21 http://www.solarmerchant.com/articles/611/Solar-business... How to Start a Solar Energy Business (cost effectively) We are at the dawn of a solar revolution in the United States. Every aspect of the solar industry is experiencing explosive growth. Triple digit expansion in solar photovoltaic cell manufacturing, to the need for solar sales associates, to the huge demand for solar syste install... 2009-01-21 http://www.solarmerchant.com/articles/615/Solar-heater... Use Solar Heating To Reduce Your Household Heating by: Tony Luck We would all like cheaper electricity and gas bills. Most of us shop around for the provider with the lowest electricity, gas or oil prices and leave it at that, but there are other ways to warm your house. Not only could you save money in the long term by reducing your hous... 2009-01-21 http://www.solarmerchant.com/headlines/news/solar energy solar energy News Headline :Your first step for Solar enrgy on the net. 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The State Government has announced the agency responsible for a blowout in the solar energy scheme is being scrapped.... Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:52:40 -0800 http://www.solarmerchant.com/news/1438429/-Total-‘Doubling-Down’-on-Solar-Energy,-Raises-Stake-in-SunPower... Total SA, Europe’s third-largest oil producer, raised its bet on solar energy by boosting its stake in SunPower Corp. and selling its renewable energy development unit to the U.S. company.... Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:39:13 -0800 http://www.solarmerchant.com/news/1438430/-PM-under-fire-over-solar-job-losses... David Cameron has been accused of causing job losses in the solar energy industry by a businesswoman who blamed his Government for forcing her to make 30 people redundant in the run-up to Christmas.... Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:29:35 -0800 http://www.solarmerchant.com/news/1438431/-PRINCETON:-NRG-to-power-MetLife-Stadium-with-solar-energy... Three National Football League teams will have their stadiums powered by Princeton-based NRG with sustainable solar energy.... Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:08:22 -0800 http://www.solarmerchant.com/news/1438432/-Solar-power-is-cheap,-reliable-for-homeowners... Regarding all the past articles on solar energy, I must take exception to most of the pundits’ rants and raves. Solar energy is here to stay, so accept it. It’s the cheapest and most reliable form of energy available for a homeowner.... Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:11:54 -0800 http://www.solarmerchant.com/news/1438433/-Gazette.Net:-Greenbelt-installation-shines-light-on-alternative-energy-source... By mounting 90 solar panels on Greenbelt Baptist Church, some solar energy advocates took the first step toward reducing Greenbelt’s carbon footprint.... Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:45:00 -0800 http://www.solarmerchant.com/news/1438434/-Breakthrough-Facility-to-Trap-Solar-Energy-in-Molten-Salt... One of the greatest problems of large scale solar power facilities is that they do not produce electricity at night, and when they do produce power, it is constantly fluctuating with the suns strength. Under development in the deserts of Tonopah, Nevada is a new technology that will effectively store solar energy in the form of molten salt. When t... Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:15:25 -0800 http://www.solarmerchant.com/news/1438435/-Orkla’s-Wiggen-Says-Sale-of-REC-Stake-Becoming-More-Difficult... Orkla ASA (ORK) Chief Executive Officer Bjoern Wiggen said the solar-energy market slump and turmoil in financial markets may delay the sale of its stake in Renewable Energy Corp. ASA.... Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:08:38 -0800 http://www.solarmerchant.com/news/1438436/-Solar-power-paying-for-and-powering-a-Chevy-Volt... Few people are getting rich selling solar energy back to the grid, but one homeowner has made enough to pay for his Chevy Volt.... Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:08:33 -0800