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United States Navy Unveils Plan to Beam Solar Power from Space to Earth
The United States Navy Research Laboratory has unveiled two modules they are testing to capture solar energy from space and divert its power to earth. The two designs would use reflectors to...
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Former Facebook Employee Spends Two Years Building a Tsunami-Proof Capsule in...
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Sand Babel: Solar-Powered Twisting Skyscrapers 3D-Printed with Desert Sands
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UK Parliament Floats Plans to Put Solar Panels on Big Ben’s Face
London’s iconic Big Ben clock tower might be getting a solar facelift. The Guardian reports that the House of Commons is looking into plans that would add solar panels to the landmark’s clock face....
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Israel Debuts the World’s First Self-Cleaning Solar Farm
One of the challenges with solar power is keeping the panels clean, since dust and dirt drastically reduce the efficiency of photovoltaics. That’s particularly challenging for large solar parks, and...
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Incredible Solar-Powered ‘Cumulus’ Parasol Opens Automatically When the Sun...
The Cumulus parasol is a solar powered parasol that inflates itself when the sun starts shining. This artificial cumulus protects you from the sun. Whenever the sun comes out, the parasol inflates...
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NASA Launches Giant Magnifying Glass into Space to Collect Solar Energy
Early this morning NASA kicked off Operation LENS, an ambitious plan to concentrate and collect solar power using a giant magnifying glass in outer space. Long speculated to be a rumor, the 7,000,000...
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Rustic Off-Grid Pump House is a Solar-Powered Weekend Getaway in Australia
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Breakthrough Discovery Uses Sunlight to Create Materials for Solar Devices
Researchers at Oregon State University just made an energy breakthrough that could cut the cost of solar energy while also drastically reducing the carbon footprint of manufacturing solar materials....
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Tiny English Village Blocks Giant Fracking Operation, Announces Plans to...
Normally, the village of Balcombe, West Sussex is just another picturesque spot in a valley where nothing really happens. But when Cuadrilla Resources–the UK’s fracking pioneer–announced plans to do...
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Amazing Solar-Powered Machine Creates News from Social Media at Milan Design...
Dezeen and Space Caviar, which is led by former Domus editor Joseph Grima, created a publication specially designed for those who suffer from the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO). Created for this year’s...
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Cheap Solar PV Powers Substantial Global Renewable Energy Growth in 2013
The falling price of solar photovoltaic systems was the main driver of an increase in global renewable energy generation in 2013, according to a new report produced by the Frankfurt School-UNEP...
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Meet the Solar Impulse 2: The First Airplane to Attempt a Round-The-World...
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Mongolia’s Nomads Modernize Traditional Tent Homes with Solar Panels
With 250 days of sunshine a year, Mongolia’s potential for solar energy is vast but mostly underutilized. That’s beginning to change though – a new government sponsored initiative aims to equip...
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Marjan van Aubel’s Solar-Powered Current Table Uses Photosynthesis to Charge...
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Google Buys Solar-Powered Drone Manufacturer Titan Aerospace to Boost...
3D printing may be all the rage in design, but for Big Tech, drones are where the money is. On Monday, web giant Google beat out Facebook in a race to acquire Titan Aerospace, a solar-powered drone...
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An American Home or Business Goes Solar Every Four Minutes!
Buried at the very bottom of a fact sheet released at yesterday’s White House Solar Summit is a striking statistic: “Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar, supporting...
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Austria’s Blob-Shaped Kunsthaus Graz Art Museum Generates its Own Solar Power
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LEGOLAND Florida Becomes Nation’s First Theme Park to be Powered by 100%...
In honor of Earth Day, LEGOLAND Florida just become the first theme park in the U.S. to be completely powered by renewable solar energy. The 150-acre theme park teamed up with Tampa Electric to go off...
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Skylab Architecture’s Radial Green-Roofed Columbia Building Tracks the...
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