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I’ve got a ton more cleantech stories for you from around the cleantech interwebs this week. I’m going to try a simpler and quicker approach this time by just placing the titles and links alone without any excerpt or summary. Let me know how you like this? Like it more than with the summaries? Prefer having the summaries? Don’t really care?

Solar

• Awe-Inspiring Thatched Mozambique Home is Draped in Solar Panels
• HelioVolt Re-Emerges With Improved Efficiency CIGS Solar Panels
• CNN On Solyndra Loan: Bush Started It, There’s No Evidence of Wrongdoing, And Romney’s Attacks Are Made Up
• Romney-Backed Konarka and Its Organic Solar Cells File for Bankruptcy
• Solar Speaks: Solar Power World Editorial Director Frank Andorka Appears on The American Entrepreneur
• Sidwell Friends, SolarCity and Common Cents Solar Partner to Bring New Energy & Savings
• Solar Project at Macy’s New Jersey Distribution Center
• Suntech Solar Panels Power Asian Development Bank Headquarters
• Suntech Introduces 255-Watt Polycrystalline Module at Intersolar Europe 2012
• RES Canada Announces Completion of Ontario’s First Large-Scale Solar FIT Project
• Affordable Solar Completes Sunport Phase III Solar Project
• LDK Solar Signs Three Multi-Year Photovoltaic Project Development Agreements (Big Contracts)
• Solar Powered Floating Resort (Video Below)

Wind

• Wind Power: From NIMBY to YIMBY (Video Above)
• Myths And Facts About Wind Power: Debunking Fox’s Abysmal Wind Coverage
• Wind Without Its Tax Credit: “This Bleeding Has to Stop”
• Vestas releases high-wind V112-3.0 MW turbine to meet global customer demands
• Cape Scott Wind Farm – $ 7,000,000 Payment Received – Start of Construction
• Boralex Announces Acquisition of a 32 MW Wind Power Project in France
• Executing 3 GW of GE’s 1.6-100 Wind Turbines
• Kids Put Their Wind Turbines to the Test in Atlanta
• GE Celebrates 10 Years of Advancing Wind Energy

Clean Transportation!

• Public Transportation Ridership Use Surged in First Quarter 2012
• Bike Month Wrap-up: Rolling out the Red Carpet
• Sunday Streets Shines in San Francisco’s Mission District (Tons of Photos)
• U.S. stiffens opposition to EU law on aviation emissions
• Going to Downtown Los Angeles? Leave Your Car At Home!
• Video: Brammo’s Empulse R Commercial Hits The Right Notes
• Video: Nissan Leaf Owners Go Autocrossing
• Quantum to Demonstrate Its Plug-In Hybrid Electric F-150 Pick-Up Truck at the Electric Utility Fleet Managers Conference in Williamsburg, VA
• Exclusive: Europe set to regulate for greener cars
• 2013 Tesla Model S Signature Edition is Sold Out

Energy Efficiency & Going Carbon Neutral

• Empire State Building Saves Millions of Dollars in First Year of Energy Efficiency Plan

• ACEEE: Major New U.S. Energy Find Could Offset Nearly A Quarter Of Nation’s Power Use
• Just How Much Energy Do You Consume? Leafully Tells You
• HP unveils ‘zero-energy’ datacentre
• M&S becomes ‘carbon neutral’
• Award-Winning Lamp Eliminates Need for Direct Sunlight
• Smart Plug Monitors Energy Use of Individual Appliances
• Weatherization Tips for Old Doors and Windows (That Won’t Cost You a Bundle)

Other

• Arizona State University Creates World’s Largest Flexible OLED Color Display
• Compact and flexible thermal storage
• Green energy needs milestones to grow: EU Commission
• India’s RE capacity crosses 25,000 MW, at 12.4% of total power capacity
• REC Analysis: 8 projects with 1,80,237 RECs generation potential accredited
• IL&FS Renewable Energy subsidiaries cross 100 MW capacity under REC scheme
• Renewable energy schemes help boost farmers’ profits
• Error message for Microsoft’s use of coal
• The new new hydropower: Small-scale turbines have big potential
• The Samsung Galaxy Exhilarate is the First UL Platinum Certified 4G Smartphone
• Arthur Laffer: Reagan’s Economist Proposes a Carbon Tax
• Geothermal energy could meet a fifth of UK’s power needs – report
• Undersea turbine energy becoming reality in Scotland. Successful test powers 500 homes with tidal energy