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It’s not just major car manufacturers that are jumping on the solar power bandwagon – the US Army is the latest organization to join in the renewable energy field. The military announced that in 2012 they will begin construction of one of the biggest solar powered electrical plants in the country, and will have this [...]
Read more →Although it’s no secret that companies have been rushing to put out solar cells thin enough to coat shingles with, or translucent enough to coat the outside of windows with, but now a new technological breakthrough will allow for both features to be wrapped into one. The finding comes from John Rogers at the University of Illinois, and was just published [...]
Read more →Last time I talked about a Solar Powered Refrigerator, the scope of the story was limited to use around the home or the cottage, but a new idea from Promethean Power Systems has shown a way that a similar technology can help rural India in the form of energy savings and health. For locations where it’s hard to get a consistent [...]
Read more →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 →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 →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 →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 →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, [...]
Read more →Ever wondered how much it would cost to deck your roof out in solar panels, but passed it off as “too expensive”? Well, RoofRay has the answer for you – an innovative and intuitive online application that uses Google Earth to map out your own roof, and estimate the cost of installing solar panels on it. And even though Google [...]
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