Forget the Iron Curtain--we'll all be living behind solar curtains if Konarka Technologies has its way. The organic solar cell company has teamed up with Arch Aluminum and Glass to test out so-called "solar curtains," or walls of ...READ»
The world's first solar-sail-powered spacecraft, Cosmos 1, met its demise in 2005 when it fell into the ocean before ever reaching orbit. But dreams of solar sails propelling spaceships haven't died, and Carl Sagan's Planetary ...READ»
As any renewable energy buff (or casual bystander) knows, solar panels are rendered useless when the sun sets. The Rice Solar Energy Project doesn't change that, but it gets pretty close--the proposed project in California's Sonoran ...READ»
Over the past couple of years, i started on my own "green" journey. Foreseeing the plight of fossil fuels and oil in particular, it wasn't really a hard decision.Early adopters to renewable and alternative energy seemed to gain in the ...READ»
Access to on-demand lighting is a given for many of us, but some developing countries don't have the proper electrical grid set up to allow even a basic light bulb to turn on. Solar power is a popular way to address this problem, a ...READ»
Just as pocket-sized solar gadget chargers are becoming popular, SunCore, a five-year-old startup, wants to take things to the next level with its Novacell light charger--a gadget charger that can use room light, sunlight, or even a ...READ»
Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. was awarded $200 million. Today President Obama will announce federal investments that will bring smart electric meters to one-quarter to one-third of U.S. homes. The money will be matched with state ...READ»
Parking lots are the antithesis of sustainability--cold, hard seas of concrete and (mostly) petroleum-fueled cars. But they don't have to be that way, as Dell and Envision Solar recently showed us. Envision completed a renewable ...READ»
As the US economy slowed, the US Government stepped in with the $787 stimulus package passed in February 2009 as the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA). A big chunk of the stimulus, about $67 billion worth, is ...READ»
Google has made waves in the greentech world with its multi-million dollar geothermal and solar power investments, its plans to build a wave-powered data center, and its proclamation that it wants to make clean energy cheaper than ...READ»
We all hear a lot about the problems we face, and there's no lack of them it seems. Our environment and our economy face great challenges. We need clean water and food. We need to produce ...READ»
Leave it to the kids to produce the best green homes. We recently profiled Penn State's Natural Fusion house, an entrant in this week's Solar Decathlon, but our favorite design on display at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. is ...READ»
Brisbane, Australia, has completed the ultimate feel-good footbridge--a 470-meter structure plastered in 84 solar panels that power LED lights and feed excess energy to the electrical grid. The Kurilpa Bridge, which connects South ...READ»
Scientists at MIT have invented a smart roofing material that takes a new thermal-management approach to eco-design. It's a different approach to previous efforts, of which there are many. We've rounded them up for you, starting with ...READ»
In the United Arab Emirates, Dubai has always maintained a reputation as the center of excess and oil money gone awry, while Abu Dhabi's Masdar City has emerged as the UAE's sustainable core. But Dubai's developers might be ...READ»
Chances are, you know if your neighbor has solar panels on their roof--the shiny black photovoltaic panels are a dead giveaway. But Dow Chemical is making rooftop solar power covert with its solar shingles, expected to be released ...READ»
1366 Technologies, a startup spun-out of MIT that aims to raise solar panel efficiency without increasing cost, announced this week that it has developed a manufacturing process to produce multicrystalline solar panels with an 18% ...READ»
Nanosolar, a Silicon Valley thin-film solar startup, has been ridiculed for its reluctance to release any sort of information about its technology since it debuted in 2002. And now the company has proved all its detractors wrong, ...READ»
Google isn't content to watch as solar power remains too expensive for mass commercial use--no, the Internet behemoth announced plans yesterday to revolutionize the industry itself by developing mirror technology that could cut the ...READ»
That whole "Google operates a diverse business plan" idea is getting a weird new spin at the moment--news has surfaced that the search engine giant is working hard to improve the tech behind solar thermal heating systems.
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