Atlantic City Convention Center Installed 2.4 MW Solar Powered Rooftop
13,400 modules, manufactured by the Chinese company Trina Solar, provide 2,4 MW at peak capacity, equivalent to the needs of 280 American houses. The energy generated will reduce the building's electricity bills with 25% and in it's lifetime of 20 years the solar panels will save about $4.4 million.
Nano-Abrasive Material Makes Self-Cleaning Solar Cells
Scientists from GIT (Georgia Institute of Technology) have invented a new solar cell surface treatment that could be applied to existing solar cells technology, and that could boost the light absorption into the cell. It also has self-cleaning capabilities.
75% Efficient Solar Powered Air Conditioning System
Le Lievre, co-founder and former CEO of Ausra, now founder of Chromasun, is planning to launch a very efficient solar powered air conditioning system in the first quarter of 2010.
Solar Powered System Heats Your Home During Winter
Boston-based Practical Solar comes with an interesting house heating offer and, with the help of a millennium-old technology, aided by computer software, wants to bring heat in your homes directly from the sun. Simpler said, they projected a set of mirrors to beam their light on your house.
New Solar Powered Polymer Makes Self-Healing Plastics
We normally use solar power to juice things up, and to create pollution-free electricity. Normally, we wouldn't think of anything else when it comes to energy usage, recycling, but scientists prove us there's much more to do with sunlight. Even recycling... in a way.
SmarterShade Reduces 25% of Energy for Room Cooling
SmarterShade is a solar-powered smart windows that helps cooling down your home temperature in hot summer days.
$300 Solarstar Uses the Sun's Heat to Cool Your Home
For all those of you living in a house, with roof and fence, the problem of cooling your residence in the summer is pretty pressing. SolarStar has thought at this niche and built a standalone cooling system, based on the Universe-aged principle of cooling by evaporation of water, getting the hot air out, and putting the colder one in.
Scientist Mimicking Green Plants to Create Efficient Solar Cells
Although no specific details are given, from an article published in Science Daily it seems that prof. Pavlos Lagoudakis at the University of Southampton has developed a new method of converting light into electricity using a process found in green plants' photosynthesis.
ZTE Coral 200: The $40 Eco-Friendly Solar Powered Phone
Until now many of us know about Samsung's environment friendly phone, Blue Earth. It is made of recycled plastic, and the difference between it and other devices is that it can recharge itself, as it is equipped with solar panels.
Flat Solar Concentrator: Cheap, Durable, 30% Efficient
Nicolas Morgan, the director of a Toronto-based firm, named "Morgan Solar", helped by his brother, John Paul Morgan, has invented a solar concentrator that gives a different approach to solar concentrators, by making them more appealing both as price and as durability/efficiency.
