Tag: Solar Power - Page 8
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Solar Bench Lets You Charge Your Gadgets While You Work Outside
The bench's solar panels provide shade and juice for your laptop.
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Tiny Off-Grid Float Cabin Becomes Dream Retirement Home
For one couple, retirement means living way off-the-grid in a water-access-only floating cabin in the wilds of British Columbia.
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Hybrid Solar Electric/Solar Thermal Panels Could Make Rooftop Solar Mainstream
An MTU professor claims that new advances in hybrid solar collectors could mean every roof will be solar within 20 years.
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Solar Panel Suitability Checker App Finds the Best Spot on Your Roof for Solar Panels
The app uses Google Maps to find the ideal location on your property for a solar installation.
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Solar Breweries Come to Michigan
An Ann Arbor brewery has just completed a $350,000 overhaul of its facilities, all in the name of greener beer.
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Solar Powered ATM Is Beautiful in Bali
Green School in Bali has installed a solar powered ATM, cased in bamboo and set in stone.
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Why There's No New Coal When Reserves Run Out & How That Could Help Biofuels
New research rewrites our understanding of why no new coal deposits develop -- but offers hope for post-coal energy solutions.
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Has It Come to This? Solar Powered Toy Keeps Kids Playing Outside with Applause
The Son-X Octavia is a gadget attached to swing sets that makes noise to encourage kids to stay active and outdoors.
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Lower Subsidies Lead to Larger Solar Plants
Who'd have thought it? A cut in subsidies for solar has lead some UK developers to increase the size of their solar plants.
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Energy News: 'Significant' Tar Sands Pipeline Spill in Alberta; New Solar PV Plan for New York, More
Plus, alarm sounded over tar sands pipeline through central Canada and New England; China and Japan get around EU ban on Iranian oil; questions about financial viability of military biofuel plans.
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Two Kids Go Superhero to Promote Solar Power
Brothers Carrick and Gareth McCullough geared up as superheros to advocate for the use of solar power in their town.
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New Jersey Beats California For Most New Solar Power Installations
In the first three months of 2012 the Garden State installed roughly 20 MW more solar power than the Golden State.
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Department of Energy Awards $56 Million to 21 Concentrating Solar Power Projects
For solar to take a bigger place in our energy mix, we need a whole basket of technologies to move forward and be deployed on a much larger scale than they are now.
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Hybrid Wind and Solar Powered Streetlamps Can Run Off-Grid
The technology allows streetlamps to run completely on renewable energy and to operate free of the grid during black-outs.
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Energy News: Germany's Solar Power is 10% of Demand; Michigan Oil Spill Larger Than Thought
Plus, the difficult path renewable energy faces after a record year, and, again how far the US lags behind Europe in renewable energy.
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Bauhaus: 100% Solar, Electric Houseboat in Action
We've drooled over this solar-powered beauty before. But we've yet to see it in action, until now.
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Real Life Superhero Builds an Armband Solar Generator for Those on the Move
A crime fighter, journalist and activist has developed a portable solar generator.
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Solar Powered Gadget Charging Stations Could Make Street Corners into Coffee Shops
A design to use solar power cells on street signs and other urban spots to provide free charging for gadgets.
