Lights Up the Night With a Solar Powered Umbrella
Let us try an imaginary exercise and go back in time, in a hot summer place, in full swing, restaurants and bars with outdoor...
Harvesting Solar Energy from Pavement to Melt Ice
The heat radiating off roadways has long been a factor in explaining why city temperatures are often considerably warmer than nearby suburban or rural...
Solar Power Stored as Thermo-Chemical Fuel
A new possibility to capturing and releasing solar energy is on the run by MIT researchers.
They are hopeful to do this with the help...
Windows that absorb solar energy
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory have fabricated transparent thin films capable of absorbing...
Solar inverters improve the profitability of photovoltaic power plants
The Siemens Industry Automation Division is further expanding its product portfolio in the power plants segment by introducing the central inverters Sinvert PVS600, PVS1200,...
Blythe Solar Power Project
The U.S. Department of the Interior approved the largest solar energy project ever to be built on U.S. public lands. When constructed, the Blythe...
Drinking Water From Sunshine
Systems which can remove salt from salt-water, or desalination systems, have existed for decades, but they are typically large-scale installations that require lots of...
Unique mobility on demand with smart car2go
car2go, Daimler's new mobility concept, will be launched in Hamburg in spring 2011, as announced today in the Hanseatic city by the...
Sanyo use his HIT Solar Modules in IKEA Rooftop Project
Sanyo Canada is to provide HIT modules-solar panel- for numerous rooftop installations on branches of IKEA Canada, located in the Greater Toronto area.
Once the...
Sisley Goes On Solar Panel
A subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices, United Solar (UNI-SOLAR) has completed one of France's largest rooftop photovoltaic solar panel installations in Paris. In collaboration...