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A new trend that may be popular among sun-bathed golf courses is a new model of golf cart with 72 built in photovoltaic cells. The addition of the solar cells allows for 33% more range than a standard cart because it charges while you’re on the go. A full charge can reportedly last for a full 10 [...]
Read more →In the spirit of Queen Elizabeth purchasing the world’s largest wind turbine, here are some things you might not have known about wind energy.1. Wind is incredibly expensive – from the start up costs, to the non-windy days, a wind turbine takes many years to recoup the expenses that go into installing it.2. America produces more wind energy [...]
Read more →The Toyota plant in Ontario, California has just completed the largest single-roof solar installation in North America with the help of SunPower Corporation. You may remember a similar story we ran about GM launching the world’s largest roof in Spain, and it’s because of the GM roof that Toyota’s championship is limited to North America. However, their achievement is nothing [...]
Read more →Queen Elizabeth has sure been on a roll lately with her efforts toward providing the UK with sustainable energy, and this week she’s taken another step towards environmental power: upgradingthe world’s largest wind turbine that she ordered a few months ago. As you can see by the picture to the right, the turbine will now tower over Big Ben, have a [...]
Read more →The next Live Earth event, to be hosted December 7 in Mumbai, India, is going to have one goal in mind: raise money to provide solar powered lights to areas of the world that don’t have electricity. So far, the event has the support of Al Gore, who was present via satellite for the announcement a few [...]
Read more →The solar powered airplane, pictured left and dubbed the Solar Impulse, is a new experiment that plans to determine whether it’s possible to fly an airplane around the world on a non-stop trip, without creating any pollution at all. Now, this would seem far more believable if they didn’t describe the challenge themselves as “an unachievable goal”, [...]
Read more →We’ve featured several different technologies that are being developed to capture energy from the water, but the newest, and reportedly safest, comes from Langlee Wave Power in the form of submerged surface wave generators. The generators work right at the surface, where the impact of the waves is the strongest, and looks similar to a pool skimmer, making the danger to [...]
Read more →The ultimate solution to portable energy storage is the new invention pictured left, the Solar-Stik. The Solar-Stik can be assembled yourself, and includes two solar panels, a wind turbine affixed to the top of the pole, and two power generators that can capture the stored energy for later use. Because of its ultra-portability, the Solar-Stik creators see it being a powerful tool [...]
Read more →The Firewinder, created by Tom Lawton, is the newest and coolest piece of environmental art that can come in handy around your home, and is an incredibly simple concept to boot. By day, the Firewinder looks like any other vertical wind turbine that you would hang from a tree (pictured here), but by nighttime, a slight breeze will be able [...]
Read more →There’s good news on the horizon for everyone in the market for solar photovoltaic panels: currently, demand for the sustainable energy panels is almost twice what most analysts expected, and it’s still gaining momentum. So much so, that its demand is expected to be twice what it is now by 2010. To prepare for this, [...]
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