All the stories tagged with Solar
Greenpeace says iCloud Powered with Dirty Coal Energy
04/18/2012, Despite Apple undertaking endeavors like constructing one of the country’s largest solar arrays and expanding its North Carolina data centers the environmentalist group Greenpeace just released a report named “How Clean is Your Cloud” which claims that Apple, Amazon [...]
Organic solar panel generates electricity, paves future for greener buildings?
04/18/2012, I did wonder as to why we could not include some sort of energy collecting action going on in the windows on our buildings – and perhaps those questions have finally been answered. German startup Heliatek have come up with [...]
Huge Solar Tower to Power Las Vegas at Night
04/16/2012, A developer of large-scale solar powered projects has announced that it has just completed the central piece in the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project. SolarReserve is currently running the project that is hoped to be able to provide power amounting [...]
Japan University to install photovoltaic panels on building
04/12/2012, In an effort to go green, the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan has revealed that the “Green Hills 1st Building”, which is a spanking new piece of construction in the Ookayama Campus of the university, will feature an installation [...]
Large Flower-shaped Satellites Can Beam Back Tons of Solar Power
04/10/2012, For a long time now, Space-based solar power has seemed feasible enough and can ensure a cheaper and more eco-friendly source of energy for our planet. But for an equally long time, nothing has happened with this issue. Now however, [...]
70 Megawatt Solar Plant Project in the Pipeline for Southern Japan
04/10/2012, Three companies, Kyocera Corporation, IHI Corporation and Mizuho Corporate Bank have unveiled their plans to install a 70 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic plant in Kagoshima City located in Southern Japan. Kyocera will supply the 290,000 multicrystalline photovoltaic modules and will also [...]
The Leav is a fancy solar powered camping concept
04/10/2012, When you think camping, images of pitching a tent, building a fire and cooking a simple meal over it come to mind, but who’s to say we can’t go high-tech and green at the same time? Pictured above is the [...]
Scientists develop solar-panels thinner than a thread of spider’s silk
04/05/2012, Scientists in Austria and Japan have recently revealed that they have been working on solar panels that is not only thinner than a thread of spider silk, but is also apparently flexible enough to be wrapped around a strand of [...]
Canadians Rally Against Wind Power
04/03/2012, Hundreds of farmers and rural residents rallied outside a clean energy forum in Toronto on Tuesday in a bid to call for an end to subsidies for wind power. According to a report from AFP, noise from the colossal turbines [...]
Swiss solar plane to attempt 48-hour flight to Morocco
03/28/2012, The Swiss solar powered aircraft called Solar Impulse will attempt to fly from Switzerland to Morocco in coming weeks. Should the flight be successful, it will be the aircraft’s longest flight to date. After its inaugural flight to Paris and [...]
Honda sets up Solar Hydrogen Station in Tokyo Office
03/28/2012, Honda has unveiled a Solar Hydrogen Station in the grounds of their Saitama Prefectural Office in Tokyo, Japan. The Station is part of an Electric Vehicle Testing Program that Honda is carrying out with the Municipal council of Saitama and [...]
MIT 3D solar panels gather up to 20X more power
03/26/2012, MIT is trying to improve solar energy production in a new way: instead of using flat solar panels, it is using three-dimensional ones (including a cubic and a tower version), thus increasing the surface area by a considerable amount. The [...]
SPEEDLINK wireless keyboard with solar panel announced
03/16/2012, While wireless devices give us a lot of freedom to use them whenever we want, one of the major gripes about them is that they require batteries to function – which means you’ll have to replace them after awhile or [...]
