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Super Efficient Transparent Solar Cells Could Turn Windows into Clean Energy...
Imagine windows powering homes, office buildings, and even airplanes. That fantasy might not be far from reality thanks to the latest breakthroughs in solar cell technology. Researchers from the...
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Israel Announces Plans for 121 MW Solar Power Station in the Negev Desert
Israel is blessed with abundant sunshine and has long been a pioneer in solar energy. With construction starting in early 2014 on a 121 Megawatt solar power station, the country will be taking a big...
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Next-Gen SolarVolt Generator Uses Lighthouse Glass to Capture the Power of 20...
Fresnel lens photo from Shutterstock You might not expect it, but lighthouses are leading the way to more powerful solar panels in outer space and here on earth. The key is Fresnel lenses, which...
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Japan’s Millennium City Commune Provides an Earth-Friendly Utopia in Gigantic...
Japanese architect Hiroshi Iguchi has once again shown us that greenhouses are more than just homes for plants and veggies. To demonstrate how humans can also benefit from spending time in these large...
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Walmart Produces More Solar Energy than Any Other U.S. Retailer
Mega-retailer Walmart has crowned the roofs of their retail locations with enough photovoltaic panels to blast past 39 entire American states with their combined solar capacity. As photovoltaics...
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Gorgeous Fogo Island Eco-Hotel Rises on Stilts in Canada
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Panasonic’s New Solar LED Lantern Brings Light to Off-Grid Areas
The Panasonic Corporation just unveiled plans to launch a new solar LED lantern that will provide light to those living without electricity. The BG-BL03 Lantern can be charged up in just six hours,...
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New Hyperloop Startup Announces it Will Build a Prototype by Next June
The Hyperloop concept is already beginning to pick up speed. A new start up group of engineering experts, who call themselves Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc., has stepped forward with the...
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Kyocera Opens Japan’s Largest Offshore Solar Power Plant
Kyocera Corporation has just launched Japan’s largest offshore solar power plant. Clean energy generated by the 70MW Kagoshima Nanatsujima Mega Solar Power Plant will be sold back to the national grid...
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Rock On! Playing Pop and Rock Music Around Solar Cells Improves Efficiency
New research out of the UK finds that solar cells actually enjoy improved efficiency when exposed to the pounding beats of today’s pop and rock music. According to researchers from Queen Mary...
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Old-Fashioned Steam Engines Could Solve Solar Energy Storage Problem
Australian engineers might have solved one of the biggest obstacles to scaling up solar energy — the lack of affordable storage technology that allows solar to be used at peak demand after the sun...
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Build Your Own Flat-Pack Micro Nomad Home for Less than $30,000
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Apple Brings Manufacturing Back to America with New Solar-Powered Plant in...
Photo of solar panels in Arizona via Shutterstock Apple has faced a lot criticism for failing to monitor its manufacturing partners’ questionable work safety standards, but it looks like the company is...
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After Trillium: Solar-Powered Flower Sculpture Opens and Closes With the Sun
After Trillium is a solar powered robotic sculpture by artist Anthony Castronovo that is inspired by Iowa’s native Trillium flower. The sculpture is made of cast aluminum and kiln-formed glass and...
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Brad Pitt’s “Make It Right” Transforms Historic School into LEED Platinum...
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Blossoming Surya Sculpture Could Shield Dallas Building from Scorching Glare
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Volvo’s Stunning Pure Tension Pavilion is a Lightweight Sun-Powered Charging...
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Have We All Been Installing Solar Panels the Wrong Way?
Image of residential solar panels / Shutterstock Installing solar panels seems pretty straightforward – just aim them south so they get lots of sun all day. But researchers are finding that we may have...
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Solar-Powered ConnecTable Charges Devices in Outdoor Public Places
Have you been reading an e-book at the park when suddenly your device’s battery starts gasping its last? The sun may be shining bright, but there you are, stranded without an outlet. CarrierClass, a...
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Spectrolab Breaks Own Solar Cell Efficiency Record
Space solar cell and panel manufacturer Spectrolab has broken its own solar cell efficiency world record. The Boeing subsidiary achieved an efficiency of 38.8 percent for a ground-based multi-junction...
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