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Anticipation Building For the New Tesla Home Battery

When Telsa Inc decided to create its electric car it created arguably the best battery on the market. Now the technology world is watching...

Solar Panels Cover Bike Lane in South Korea

It is only natural for a bicycle lovers to get excited when the news features new and improved bike lanes. How about a bike...
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NASA’s Origami Solar Panels

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers engineered solar panels inspired by the Japanese paper folding art, Origami. They are light, foldable and easily deployable. As far as...

Peer-to-Peer Solar Sharing Program Boosts Energy Accessibility

Using solar power at home is no longer limited to having your own solar panels on your house rooftop. US-born peer-to-peer solar sharing system...
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Facebook to Launch Solar-Powered Drones for Internet Connectivity

To provide online connectivity to remote and inaccessible locations, Facebook is developing Internet-beaming drones with an aim of bringing 5 Billion people without internet...

Solar Cooling System Preserves Food Without Electricity

An eco-friendly and cheap cooling system developed by a Mexican researcher uses solar energy to maintain temperature of food and water at nine degrees Celsius...

Renewable Energy Hits Record Breaking Generating Capacity and Investments

Year 2014 has been record breaking for the global renewable energy sector, with generating capacity exceeding 100GW. The biggest investor was China, closely followed...
World's first glow-in-the-dark Nissan Leaf drives worlds first glow-in-the-dark highway, the Smart Highway, in the Netherlands.

Nissan Leaf “TRON Edition” on Dutch Smart Highway

Here at The Green Optimistic, we love solar power, and it turns out that lots of Nissan Leaf owners love solar power, too. We already...
Graphene-based supercapacitor will revolutionize renewable energy and energy storage, says Sunvault Energy

Self-storing Solar Power Possible with Graphene, says Sunvault Energy

Graphene, in concept, has been around since the latter half of the 1800s, but it wasn’t until just over a decade ago that scientists...

Space Based Solar Power Brought a Step Closer to Earth

Capturing and sending solar power from space has just gotten real, as a the team of Japanese scientists demonstrated wireless transmission of energy from space...