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Sun And Cloud: Hand-Cranked Solar Camera Can be Charged Anytime, Anywhere
Digital cameras are a part of many of our lives these days – they’re in our phones and computers, and film-loaded cameras are rapidly becoming obsolete. Unfortunately, digital cameras need to be...
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Apple’s Largest Data Center is Powered by 100% Renewable Energy
Apple has announced that its newest—and largest—data center is powered entirely by renewable energy. Solar panels and fuel cells incorporated within the Maiden, North Carolina facility generate enough...
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MIT Scientists Create a More Efficient Solar Cell by Using Quantum Dots and...
Photo via Shutterstock A team of researchers at MIT have developed a more efficient photovoltaic solar cell using particles known as quantum dots. The benefit of using quantum dots is that they can be...
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Researchers Create Efficient, Recyclable Solar Cells from Trees
Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology‘s Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE), in collaboration with Purdue University have unveiled a new efficient, recyclable organic solar...
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Solar Impulse Airplane to Launch First Sun-Powered Flight Across America!
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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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Scientists Develop Solar-Powered Wind Turbine for Ultimate Energy Generation
Why settle for one form of renewable energy when you can produce power with two? That’s exactly what scientists from the University of Liverpool have done by upgrading an everyday wind turbine with a...
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Solar-Powered Floating Bar Hops Around Kenya’s Beautiful Green Islands
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Gorgeous Solar-Powered Blue Empire Cottage Filters Equatorial Light in Kenya
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The Solar Photovoltaic Industry is Finally Set to Become a Net Energy Producer
Solar Panel photo from Shutterstock Solar panels offer a clean source of alternative energy – but ironically, the solar industry has a significant carbon footprint due to its reliance on coal and...
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World’s Largest Solar Boat Announces Trans-Atlantic Trip to Conduct Climate...
In 2010, PlanetSolar’s Tûranor solar-powered boat completed a 19-month voyage around the world. Now the eco-vessel is set to set sail again over the Atlantic Ocean in order to conduct experiments...
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Former Solar Decathlon Entries Form an Experimental Off-the-Grid Village in...
The Missouri University of Science and Technology is putting its old entries to the Solar Decathlon to good use by making a model Solar Village. Four solar homes from past competitions are being...
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Scientists Set 18.7% Efficiency Record for Black Silicon Solar Cells
Researchers are racing to develop black silicon solar cells with higher and higher efficiencies – and Aalto University and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) just took the lead...
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Folding Lotus Mobile Solar Array Provides Pop-Up Power Generation
Arizona-based Monarch Power has unveiled a folding, flower-shaped solar array that creator Joseph Hui hopes will take solar power from being “strapped down” to being “light, personal and portable.”...
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Energetic Energies: Panasonic and Akihisa Hirata Unveil Solar-Powered...
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Solar Energy Reaches Grid Parity in India and Italy
Renewable energy just hit a new landmark in India and Italy, as Deutsche Bank reports that solar power is finally available at the same cost as traditional electricity in the two countries. The bank’s...
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Germany Quadruples Energy Surplus Over the Last Two Years
Photo via Shutterstock For a country phasing out its nuclear plants, you might expect a downturn in energy production. But Germany has actually seen its power output quadruple between 2011 and 2012....
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Wave Glider SV3: Liquid Robotics Unveils Faster, More Powerful Wave and...
We’ve been following Liquid Robotics’ solar and wave-powered robot here at Inhabitat for some time as it’s gone from tracking great white sharks and hurricanes to making a record-breaking trip across...
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3D-Textured Solar Cells to be Tested on the International Space Station
In one of the first experiments to take place on the outside of the International Space Station (ISS), a new type of 3D-textured solar cell will soak up 16 sunrises everyday from the “back porch” of...
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US Utilities Fear Obsolescence as Off-Grid Solar Power Rises
Photo via Shutterstock There’s a common belief that even as solar power takes off, utility companies will retain their hold on energy markets as the need for standard electrical grids remain. But a...
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