Latest Stories in Solar Technology - Page 13
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Do Glass Tile Thermal Solar Roofs Make Sense?
Preston at Jetson Green and Frida at Inhabitat discuss these lovely looking glass roofing tiles from SolTech Energy in Sweden. It is a solar thermal system, that transfers heat from the air to water that can be used for heating. Frida describes it at
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Renewable Girls Calendar Aims to Make Solar Sexy. Ugh.
From Oily Cassandra's sexy dancing peak oil expose to the controversy over podium girls in professional cycling, we are not short of examples of sex being used to sell green living in one way or another. But a new calendar
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Solar-Powered Cockroach A Perfect Practical Joke
Perhaps this little insect is really perfect timing for Halloween, but it falls into our weird solar device category nonetheless. The black back of the cockroach sports a solar panel so it can wriggle around a surface, and easily
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Duluth, Minn. Teams Up with the Sun to Take Out its Trash
Duluth, Minnesota is taking out its trash- and the sun is helping out. The City on Lake Superior announced on Thursday the debut of its Toss It Green
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T-Mobile USA Builds Its First Cell Tower Powered by Solar Energy
While Motorola and Sony Ericsson have been on the trail of solar and wind-powered cell phone towers for years primarily in developing areas like Africa and India, T-Mobile seems to just be bringing the idea to the
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Beach Ball Solar Generator Begs The Question, Why??
A new concept for a solar array has emerged in the form of giant clear beach balls sporting solar panels hovering on the inside. Each of the massive balls are capable of generating about 200W of power, and are hooked up to
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Solar Pioneer is UK's Fastest Growing Private Energy Company. Again.
When I wrote about Solarcentury being the fastest growing UK energy company back in 2008, commenter GGTD confessed to dreaming of a "green monopoly"—arguing that we need someone as ubiquitous as
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Is This "The World's First Solar Powered Air-Conditioning Unit"?
Inhabitat calls it the "World's first solar powered air conditioning unit", as does the Shandong Vicot Air Conditioning Company. That is a rather grand statement, given that another Chinese company, BROAD, has been doing it for years , and there are
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Peer-Supported Fundraising Goes Solar in SolarAid's Hot 100
From transforming school performance with solar-powered electrification, to saving lives by displacing kerosene lamps, UK-based SolarAid is one of those charities that we TreeHuggers can't help but love. And it seems we're not
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Which Solar Panels Offer the Cleanest Conscience?
Image credit: Solarcentury (Creative Commons) Solar panel manufacturing has some toxic byproducts, yet more and more people are interested in solar as a clean(er) alternative to fossil fuel dependence. With renewable feed-in tariffs driving massive
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MIT Creates Self-Assembling Solar Cells That Repair Themselves
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
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Archimedes' "Death Ray" Really Works. On Pirates. (Video)
Legends abound about the Archimedes "death ray", constructed from giant mirrors, which he allegedly used during the siege of Syracuse in 212 BC to set Roman ships ablaze. Now Green Power Science—the folks who brought
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Solar Transforms School Performance in East Africa (Video)
From the launch of SolarAid to the massive expansion of its SunnyMoney micro-finance operations, TreeHugger has been excited about this charity's work to harness clean technology for economic development. We've already seen a
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Existing House Transformed into Eco Home-of-the-Future (Video)
TreeHugger is no stranger to fancy new LEED platinum residences, but the fact remains that we must do something about our existing housing stock if we are ever going to get CO2 cuts on the scale needed. Luckily,
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Massive Growth in UK Solar Jobs
It seems like the UK solar industry is on fire right now. No sooner was the renewables feed-in tariff approved, than solar installers were inundated with inquiries from would-be customers, and we've even seen plans announced
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New, Transparent Solar Technology Could Hide Photovoltaics in Your Clothes
The graphene organic photovoltaic manufacturing process. Courtesy of USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com. Bulky solar-powered gear is nothing new, but imagine charging
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Utility-Scale Solar Power. In Rainy England?!
The introduction of solar feed-in tariffs in the UK caused great debate—with some claiming they were a rip off and solar was pointless in such a cloudy environment. Others clearly think differently, and
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How to Build a DIY Solar Shower (Video)
From flash cooking eggs with a Fresnel lens, to building your own solar space heater with discarded campaign signs, Dan and Denise Rojas of Green Power Science are clearly at the more Macgyver end of renewable energy.
