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The ETH-Caltech solar fuel reactor uses concentrated heat from the sun to create fuel from water and carbon dioxide.
New scheme would use only sunlight, air and water to supply energy for cars, laptops, GPS systems. “At the California Institute of Technology, they’re developing a way to turn sunlight and water into fuel for our cars.”–President [...]
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Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm
New research has shown that it is possible and affordable for the world to achieve 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, if there is the political will to strive for this goal.
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Molten salt technology was demonstrated at the Solar Two project
One of the biggest problems with solar energy is that the sun doesn’t shine 24 hours a day. This means that unless users are only planning on using electricity when the sun is shining, some form of energy storage system is required. Since storing excess electricity [...]
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Copper Mountain Solar Facility
While it is nowhere as large as Canada’s 80MW Sarnia Solar Project (which is the world’s largest PV plant), the US has just opened the country’s largest PV plant in Nevada. The 48MW Copper Mountain Solar Facility, initiated by Sempra Generation, began construction January this year and the facility was finished just [...]
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Wearable Green Clothing Is On The Horizon
Scientists at the University of Bolton in the U.K. are developing a textile fiber, calledhybrid photovoltaic-piezoelectric material, that absorbs energy from its wearer’s body movements and the surrounding elements, including the wind, rain, and sun –Captain Planet would be proud! Ecouterre reports:
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Solar Powered Tree Lot
Buying a Christmas tree isn’t exactly the greenest thing to do for the holidays, but if you’re bent on carrying out the tradition then you might want to check out a new trend that is greening up tree lots…beyond the piles of conifers, that is. Stellar Solar has provided its Mobile Solar [...]
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Solar energy cycles may cause an overload during peak load times
Solar energy has become more than a trend or movement; with global government support, it has become a viable means to cut energy costs and migrate to a green lifestyle for hundreds of millions worldwide. Part of the attraction is the capability to earn energy [...]
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Cyomo electric bike
Cyomo electric bike can recharge its energy using solar panel. This bike has been design for our daily commuting. It’s an electric bike that has been designed to be able to harness its energy from the sun. (Pics)
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Dan Roe made these solar-powered kinetic flower sculptures that move on their own, as long as they are in the sun! I can imagine how much my cats would love these. See more kinetic and robotic artworks at his website…
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SolarEagle
It seems like a dream! Please can anyone pinch me? Ok, it really isn’t the dream, as Boeing has won an $89 million government contract to build and fly unmanned solar-powered plane that can stay in the air for uninterrupted five years. At first, I kept reading it hours and not years, as I didn’t [...]
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MIT’s Test Cell
Solar cells are intended to mimic the photosynthesis of plants — converting light into energy in the most efficient manner possible. But what other characteristics of plants could be handy for the renewable energy sector to mimic? How about the self-assembly of chloroplast, the component of plants that do all the vital [...]
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Solar toothbrush
When we first saw this new gadget, we thought “Oh, a mechanical toothbrush powered by the sun.” But that isn’t what this is. Instead of using solar rays to charge itself up, the toothbrush uses them to catalyze a powerful chemical reaction that could leave your mouth way cleaner than regular old brushing does. [...]
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A small PETE device made with cesium-coated gallium nitride glows while being tested inside an ultra-high vacuum chamber.
Though the sun offers us a couple options for exploiting its energy — light and heat — we’ve always had to choose to use one at a time, because solar-energy technology hasn’t been able to capture both typs [...]
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This image of the Centauri-Hellas Montes region was taken by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars
A new article in press of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters unveils groundbreaking research on the hydrothermal formation of Clay-Carbonate rocks in the Nili Fossae region of Mars. The findings may provide a link [...]
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Melting steel in a solar oven.
Melting steel in a solar oven (aka solar concentrator) isn’t new or unique, but it’s always cool to see and a good reminder of just how much energy is hitting the sunny side of the planet at any moment. The video below shows a short exerpt of James May’s “ Big [...]
