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Japan May Build a Solar Station in Space by 2030
Posted on November 11, 2009 - Filed Under solar powered | Leave a Comment
The Japanese space agency has unveiled an incredible new plan to start collecting solar power in space, and zap it down to Earth via microwaves or laser beams.
Under the plan, known as the Space Solar Power System (SSPS), floating photovoltaic dishes several square miles across would hover in geostationary orbit outside the Earth’s atmosphere as [...]
Dell Plants Solar Trees in the Parking Lot
Posted on November 3, 2009 - Filed Under solar powered | Leave a Comment
Dell is doing it again, this time on-site, with a series of solar trees that will not only help power its headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, but also serve to charge electric vehicles parked there. Of course, there aren’t currently any electric vehicles parking in the Dell lot, but hopefully that will change in the [...]
Samsung Blue Earth: More Than Just a Gimmick
Posted on November 3, 2009 - Filed Under Eco Freindly, Green Technology, recycling, solar powered | Leave a Comment
As it does with most trends, Samsung is pursuing eco-friendly cell phones with vigor. It already gave us the Samsung Reclaim, and now we finally have a chance to review the Samsung Blue Earth. Like the Reclaim, the Blue Earth’s shell is made from recycled materials–specifically, plastic water bottles–but it goes a giant step further with solar [...]
Canada’s Largest Solar Farm Opens in Ontario
Posted on October 21, 2009 - Filed Under Renewable Energy, solar powered | Leave a Comment
Canada’s largest solar farm is now producing power in the township of Stone Mills, near Napanee – paving the way for Ontario to become a solar power leader in North America.
This new green energy supply will help support Ontario’s elimination of dirty, coal-fired generation, which is Canada’s single largest climate change initiative. With two more [...]
Fused Silica Rollers Target Solar Thin Film Processing
Posted on October 20, 2009 - Filed Under solar powered | Leave a Comment
Morgan Technical Ceramics has developed fused silica rollers designed for use in solar energy applications. Traditionally used for handling sheet glass for automobiles, appliances and architectural applications, the fused silica rollers feature what Morgan claims are outstanding mechanical properties and a special surface quality that make them especially suitable for use in both diffusion and [...]
Solar Companies Defend Accounting Practices
Posted on October 19, 2009 - Filed Under solar powered | 2 Comments
Many Pacific islands in danger of being obliterated by rising sea levels should seek relocation aid at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, a Fiji-based scientist said.
“By 2100, I don’t see how many islands will be habitable,” professor Patrick Nunn, a climate change researcher at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji said [...]
These Homeowners Pay Almost Nothing for Heating and Cooling
Posted on October 18, 2009 - Filed Under Eco Freindly, Environmental Friendly, solar powered | Leave a Comment
I recently saw a reference to “Enertia houses” that require little in the way of external sources for heating or cooling. Do you have any information on this housing design? – Alan Marshfield, via email
Enertia is a brand name for homes designed and sold in kits by North Carolina-based Enertia Building Systems (EBS). The idea [...]
German Solar Cube House Wins DC Decathlon
Posted on October 16, 2009 - Filed Under Renewable Energy, solar powered | Leave a Comment
On the final, rainy, day of judging at the fourth Solar Decathlon in Washington, DC, I found myself busting a move with the German team in their solar house. Maybe that was what pushed them over the top.
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that Team Germany from Technische Universität Darmstadt had won the competition, coming [...]
LG Makes a Solar Powered E-Book
Posted on October 15, 2009 - Filed Under Eco Freindly, Environmental Friendly, Green Technology, Renewable Energy, solar powered | Leave a Comment
Sony and Amazon have e-books on the market. LG is trying to do them one better by releasing one with an integrated solar panel.
The integrated thin-film solar panel is around 9.6 percent efficient and adds about 20 grams to the weight of the e-book, according to Tech-On!, a website that covers Asian technologies. Put the e-book [...]
Plan Connects U.S. Grids to Transport Solar, Wind
Posted on October 14, 2009 - Filed Under Renewable Energy, Wind Engergy, solar powered | Leave a Comment
A proposal to use superconducting cables to transport renewable energy across the United States will be unveiled Tuesday.
The Tres Amigas Project would act as a hub to connect the three major electricity grids in the U.S. and a conduit for solar and wind power, according to a press release. New Mexico governor and former energy secretary [...]
