Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
Construction Crews Lead the Way with Solar Equippment
I’ve been seeing more and more solar panels on construction and municipal equippment lately. From solar powered flashing lights in school zones, to solar call boxes and message signs on the highway, renewable energy is popping up all over and making life better by providing power in remote areas.
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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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Sunday, June 4th, 2006
Cutting Edge Renewable Energy Tech Appearing in the Strangest Places
First it was Bio Town USA in Reynolds IN, and now it’s East Amwell NJ. If I would’ve had to guess, I would’ve thought that the cutting edge of renewable energy technology would be somewhere like Seattle WA, Madison WI, or some other progressive cool place with hippie/environmentalist leanings. Of course I’m not familiar with [...]
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Friday, June 2nd, 2006
Hydrogen Fuel Cells: the Promised Land
A lot of people seem to be saying that fuel cells are going to be the future of automoblies, most notably and shockingly: the President, George W Bush himself. It seems too good to be true to me at the moment, but I’m slowly being swayed. There is definitely some promise there, but the hydrogen [...]
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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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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
New Solar
There is a lot of exciting stuff going on with solar power these days. Solar Concentrators are becoming a big deal lately as a way to reduce the amount of silicon used, since there is a worldwide silicon shortage at the moment. Here are two articles that offer hope on the affordability and long-term practicality [...]
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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 [...]
