Monday, June 5th, 2006
Spinach Solar
This is pretty old news (in fact, two years old today) but it’s so awesome that I wanted to post it for anyone else who might’ve missed it. A bunch of engineers at MIT made a solar cell out of spinach. For real. They looked to nature for inspiration, and realized that since plants are [...]
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Better Mileage (and cool tricks) From Your Toyota Prius
There is a new breed of hot rodders sprouting up these days: techies. All kinds of people are finding new ways to hack and modify their Priuses to make them have incredible mileage (100+ mpg) or do cool tricks (like maintain your 12V battery with a solar panel). Read the CNET News.com article here. Get [...]
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
This is Awesome… and what we should all be doing.
The San Diego Unified School District has just worked out a great deal with Solar Integrated Technologies to get new roofs on many of their schools that are integral solar panels! So each school not only gets a new roof for free, but they also get to buy the power from that roof for less [...]
