The government which our president cited as his environmental role model in his last presidential bid sought to buy support with outrageous subsidies, in the form ofpower purchases, to anyone who put a solarpanel on his roof in sunny Seville.
The U.S. military has also invested in a range of flexible solar-panel technologies designed to power everything from night vision equipment and image intensification devices to laser-range finders, battlefield-ready laptop computers.
Then SunPower, the Silicon Valley solarpanel manufacturer and power plant developer, said it would temporarily shut down half of its 12 photovoltaic production lines in the Philippines and lay off 900 workers.
SolarCity is installing solarpanel arrays to power Tesla Supercharging stations built along Interstate highways that let drivers of its Model S sports sedan add 150 miles of range to their vehicles in 30 minutes.
After utilizing all eight watts of lithium-ion battery power, recharge the Switch 8 on the go with the portable Nomad 3.5 SolarPanel in about six hours or from any USB source in less than four hours.