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Utility-scale solar device shines in home lighting application

Written by: Amanda H. Miller Created: Wed. Apr 18, 2012
heliostat

Until recently, heliostats were only massive mirrors on motors used for large-scale concentrated solar power installations.

Massachusetts-based Wikoda changed that when it launched its home heliostat this winter. The start-up is selling small heliostats that homeowners can place in their yards to reflect high concentrations of solar light into their houses. The idea is to save turning on lights and to get the benefits of bright natural light without having to cut a hole in the roof of a home to install solar tubes, said Wikoda spokesman John Koger.

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Republican presidential candidates throw mud on the sun, economy

Written by: Chris Meehan Created: Fri. Nov 18, 2011
Republican presidential candidates throw mud on the sun, economy

Recently presidential candidate and presumable frontrunner, Mitt Romney spoke out against federal support for renewable energy, instead pushing to produce more coal, oil and natural gas domestically. His sentiment is echoed by the other candidates vying to unseat President Barak Obama. They’ve glommed on to the failure of DOE backed Solyndra, a move supported by the Bush Administration, as proof that the green economy is a failure, and the country should put it’s fossil fuel blinders back on.

They’re ignoring a lot of what’s been driving the country’s recovery—anemic though it is—and an industry with a promising future and an international leadership role for the U.S. Recently, I spoke with Colin Meehan, Environmental Defense Fund’s clean energy analyst—and incidentally my brother—about Romney and other Republicans’ campaigns and about how these attitudes don’t reflect how Republicans and Democrats are working together at the state level to pass bipartisan pro-solar and pro-renewable legislation—even in Gov. Rick Perry’s Texas, where my brother lives.

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