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Photo: Flickr/DavidPaulOhmer They did it last year, and they’re doing it again: The organizers of Intersolar North America are offering free registration to visitors until April 12. For those not familiar with Intersolar, it’s perhaps the second most prestigious international solar conference in the U.S. Solar Power International gets top prestige honors for U.S. solar conferences, but unlike Solar Power International, Intersolar is very predictable. It stays in one place and time. That is,...

If you’ve ever wanted to see the potential of solar thermal energy, watch this video below. Or better yet, go to Okotoks, Alberta, and see The Drake Landing Solar Community (DLSC), a unique solar water heating AND solar space heating housing development in Canada. According to the DLSC website, this solar development of 52 homes is the first of its kind in North America. What’s so solar “gee-whiz’ about the development is that every home is heated by a huge central solar heating system that...