Do you find some time relaxing at the lake just to hear a loud, obnoxious boat buzzing in your ears, and all this beauty of the lake is dissipated when you think how much pollution that boat has been inserted in the water? Makes you not even try to wet your feet, even less eating [...]
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I am currently writing in one of those rubber keyboards that can be rolled up and connect to a Sony UX Micro PC. But this new idea of an expanding electronic screen is powered by solar energy completely discards my rubber keyboard. Two Japanese companies, Mitsubishi Chemicals and Sumitomo Chemical are working in expandable electronics [...]
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Currently we are experiencing a boom in the LED technology, but there is a new generation of LEDs called OLED which is nothing more than organic LEDS. Currently, the OLED (organic LED) is used in mobile phones and MP3 screens, but the way to improve this technology is still long. The OLED is very versatile [...]
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Buro North, a design firm located in Melbourne, Australia, has joined Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL) to develop this exciting solar shade collection called “Solar Shade” for Australian primary schools. The concept of Solar Shade is part educational and part functional. Of course, used in groups, Solar Shade provides a shade that generates energy for the [...]
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Solar Industry tries to anticipate the Regulators As solar panels energy are more common and bigger quantities are produced; they are intended to attract the attention of regulators. Many of the larger companies that manufacture solar panels have decided to replace the wave of regulation to voluntarily join and create the first large-scale project for [...]
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Acciona Energy, an alternative energy company based outside of Spain, can boast of having built a reputation for clean technologies, and many of them. They are world leaders in wind energy, totaling 5.300 MW in 192 separate wind parks, and built the first concentrating solar plant in USA, The Nevada Solar One (shown in picture), [...]
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Howard Weinstein has one goal in mind – to help create headphones to hear that even the citizens of the poorest nations in the developing countries can afford. Through donations and help from other deaf people, now nearly 20,000 people in 30 countries use the Solar Aid. The hearing solar energy device is similar to [...]
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Edison’s own words about solar energy “Sunlight spreads across sparse and electricity. Perhaps they are the same. The trick is really to concentrate the extract and release it when needed. This ancient way inaugurated by Jove, of taking it out quickly is dangerous, wasteful and upsetting. Not to be achieved anywhere. My task was to [...]
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Dow Building Solutions has been commissioned to come to the aid of Global Solar Energy in its efforts to market solar roofing tiles. These tiles are an effort to create an innovative BIPV or Building Integrated Photovoltaic technology for Dow’s participation in the USA. According to Dow, Global Solar was chosen as a partner because [...]
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An English company, IDC, has announced plans to mass-produce an inflatable solar panel and sell it for under £ 100 ($ 200), a major breakthrough in making green energy available to all. SolarStore panels, which inflate from a backpack to 2 square meters, are designed to replace water heaters, one of the primary energy consumption [...]
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