Sunengy's Liquid Solar Arrays: Waterborne Cheap Electricity
The transition to a fully-renewable global energetic system has to be done in small but sure steps. New inventions pave the way towards sustainable technologies, and their experimentation on small and medium scale improves their survival chances and lowers their implementation price.
ZenithSolar Manufactures 75% Efficient Hybrid Solar Panels
The run after the new gold, the unlimited and cheap energy, is being pursued all over the world, not only in the US. There are states, like Israel, where solar power has been harnessed for decades in the form of hot water for its inhabitants. All those solar water heaters have been build by economical needs. In fact, only economical needs can stimulate the world to such an extent that it develops new technologies.
DIY Solar Cell from Tea and Donuts
The Holy Grail of energy has been, is, and will be the solar power. Numerous solutions of converting solar power have existed along the centuries, and people have always used the Sun to power things up, except for the last hundred years or so - that's the main reason we all got into troubles with mother nature.
PG&E to Build Space-Based Solar Power Plant by 2016
A space-based solar electricity program could soon power the Californians' homes. The project belongs to the state's biggest energy company, PG&E, and it aims to generate 200 megawatts in the next 15 years.
Babcock Ranch: Florida's First Fully Solar Powered City
The world's largest solar plant will be built in Florida. The construction will begin in June of the next year. The entire project will cost approximately two billion dollars.
Nanotube-Based Solar Powered Boat Built by Berkeley Researchers
There have already been successful experiments involving solar powered boats, and there have already been people sailing them in the last ten years. Still, all of them have something in common: they use photovoltaic cells as an intermediate between the sunlight the mechanical work.
Solar Cooking "Kyoto Box" Reduces Pollution and Deforestation
Jon Boehmer, a Norwegian based in Kenya, developed a solar powered cooker that can reduce greenhouse gases at a large scale. The cardbox named the "Kyoto Box", costs 5 Euro($ 6,60) to make, and is designed for the usage of 3 billion people that use firewood as a heating source for cooking.
Tiny Dead Marine Cells Helping Us Create Better Solar Cells
Using microscopic creatures as our friends is not a new idea, not it has been used recently. Nowadays, pushed by our green energy needs, we have to find solutions by using and probably killing some of our little friends to make us energy. This phrase sounded like the madhouse, now let's get to the real subject.
World's First Single-Axis Solar Tracking System
The officials at California's South San Joaquin Irrigation District (SSJID) and solar energy experts at Denver-based Conergy Americas have developed the world's first single-axis...
Japanese Optical Fiber Solar Cell Harvesting Infrared
New types of solar cells emerge every month, but this particular kind has caught my attention, not due to its efficiency (approx 1%), but to the idea that conceived it.
