A solar-powered mobile phone created by telecommunications company Safaricom and Kenya’s Mobitelea Ventures is providing a solution to some Kenyans not having access to electricity. The phone is only about $18 and has its own solar charger, so it never needs to be plugged into the main sources of … [continued]
Saudi Arabia is well known for being a leading exporter of crude oil, but soon enough it may also add substantial solar to its energy profile. The country is planning to have a solar capacity of 41,000 megawatts by 2032. How will it grow so much in just twenty … [continued]
Brazil’s Estadio do Maracana seats over 82,000 and has hosted a FIFA World Cup where nearly 200,000 attended. The stadium will host the 2014 FIFA World Cup final as well. Seating capacity for the 2014 FIFA events should be 85,000. Besides soccer matches, it has been the site of … [continued]
American River Packaging in the Sacramento, CA area will soon begin using an anaerobic digestion system to convert 7.5 tons of daily food waste into 1,300 kWh of renewable energy per day. About 37% of the company’s electricity will be generated by the waste-to-energy technology. Converting the large amounts of … [continued]
Japan plans to launch a satellite powered by a large solar sail for a six month mission. A solar sail captures the momentum of photons from the sun to propel the satellite, something like the manner in which a sailboat moves due to the thrust of wind. In this case, … [continued]
Yesterday on the Mall in Washington, DC well over one hundred thousand gathered to show their support for clean energy legislation in the US. Musical artists Sting, John Legend, Passion Pit, The Roots, and others entertained the throngs of activists and environmentally concerned citizens.
University of Michigan researchers are studying a way to use pressure cooking to convert microalgae into carbon-neutral biofuels. Microalgae are a potential plant source of biofuel because they are easier to breakdown chemically. Conventional methods require using oilier algaes and drying them before conversion. But the Michigan researchers are investigating a process … [continued]
A spacecraft powered by photons from sunlight has been designed by the Planetary Society. They are also currently building the solar sailor, and hope to launch it at the end of 2010.
The city of Saginaw is bidding to become home to a branch of the San Jose-based solar company GlobalWatt. If the Saginaw City Council approves a brownfield redevelopment plan, the company could receive ten million dollars in tax credits.
Dow Chemical Company revealed a new line of solar shingles they say can be installed into roofs made of conventional asphalt shingles.The solar shingles should be available by mid 2010 in a limited supply and then readily accessible by 2011.
