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Solar News has the scoop whether it's innovative technical discoveries or the newest solar products. We'll keep our fingers on the pulse of the solar industry and report our findings here.

Garden illumination has lit the path to an amazing array of solar powered products. Homes and businesses are powered entirely with solar energy and cars are soon to follow.

As the solar industry moves onward, better methods of collecting and using solar power are being revealed. Mirrors magnify the solar effect, panels become more portable, the efficiency of cells increase. The solar arena is a happenin' place, Come on in... The news is fine!

Solar Decathlon 2005 Winner

Colorado Solar Decathlon
Stefano Pattera/Solar Decathlon

And the winning home is....
Colorado University.

Kudos to all 18 entries who competed in a solar challenge, under unrelenting cloudy skies.

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Spray on Solar

Are smart buildings and clothes in our near future?

In 2005 University of Toronto researchers revealed their lastest invention. Quantum solar dots that can be suspended in a solution or woven into fabric.

Wow! Take a look.

Xerox's Sunny Side

Xerox has some Solar News from their subsidiary company Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).

A more affordable, more efficient and significantly smaller solar cell.

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Inexpensive and Innovative

If you're looking for cheap DIY solar power you must watch this video. This is amazing, we'll have to keep an eye on this technology, it just might overtake photovoltaics!

Inspiring new technology

Here is just one of the technologies that will reduce the price of photovoltaic systems. With cost being the biggest drawback to the mainstream use of solar news is always looking for research that promises to reduce the price of "going solar"