Nanosolar’s Flexible Solar Panels – a GigaWatt Promise Kept
Remember Nanosolar? I wrote on article on them a few months ago, telling that they invented a light sensitive thin layer, that could be imprinted on various flexible surfaces and then used as solar batteries. They kept their word to it.
GM Hy-Wire Fuel Cell Vehicle Tested by Top Gear
...and here's the HyWire technology, the one the world has been talking about in the last few months. It's a concept made by General Motors, there is only one example of it made, and it runs on fuel cell power. I mean... hydrogen power.
Apple to Develop Self-Charging Solar Devices
Apple wants to develop a solar technology for its devices (laptops, ipods, etc). They want to incorporate solar panels in the devices' screen, so...
New Solar Panels: 80% Efficient
A team of scientists from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been developing a brand new solar energy technology that is about to revolutionize the way we collect and distribute solar energy.
Solarial: Solar Power for Disasters
I recently found a website providing some design details to make a solar powered balloon, or zeppelin to assist the rescue teams in case of a natural calamity, such as the one in Burma, the earthquake in China, and so on.
Hybrid Electric Aircraft to Take Off by 2009
Falx Air Vehicles, from Staffordshire, UK, will release commercially a tilt-rotor hybrid airplane by the end of 2009. The tilt-rotor concept is present in...
Solar Powered Inflatable Heater
Meet the new invention of the 21st century. It is a solar heater. The basic principle is pretty simple: water is stored in a...
Solar Cells Now Cheaper Than Coal!
Nanosolar has created a thin film solar battery, much more efficient than anything existing on the market nowadays.
Its thin film technology transfers the sun...
Paint Your House With Solar Powered Paint!
Two UK researchers, David Worsley and Maarten Wijdekop have made up a paint that could produce electricity by gathering the energy from the Sun....
India enlightened by affordable solar power
Over the past four years, a thriving market for household solar panels has sprung up in India, with the help of a United Nations...
