Long Beach City College (LBCC) just received the Community College Energy Award at the Green California Summit, and that is good news considering the political assault on cleaner energy and our health.
You could retool a Tesla Model X and drive it around on Mars. But it probably wouldn’t end up looking like a Model X. The rover that Mark Watney drove around in the movie based on Andy Weir’s great book “The Martian” is much more likely to be what the hacked vehicle would look like.
Researchers at the University of Warwick in England went back to the ideas of Nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein to create a new double glazed solar panel that could also be used as a window.
American solar PV manufacturer First Solar released a flurry of announcements on Tuesday, first among them the unveiling of its first functional Series 6 thin film solar PV module at the company’s Ohio production line.
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BYD’s residential energy storage product, the B-Box HV was just awarded the 2017 Top Innovation Award by PV Magazine. The jury of experts cited the modular capability and charging/discharging performance as the key differentiators that led to the B-Box being selected.
Voltaic sent over its OffGrid Solar + Storage backpack which retails for $199 and includes with an integrated 10 watt solar panel that pushes power into a 12,000 mAh battery for me to review.
Sea Green is possibly the most soothing calm color of the entire color spectrum. Imagine how wonderful it must be to be encompassed and surrounded by 1,200 sea green solar arrays as a student at C.F. Møller-designed International School Nordhavn in Copenhagen. It is cleantech magic informing the architecture — not only soothing to the eye but refreshing to the student’s mind and body as the solar panels produce clean energy and keep the air cleaner while adding to the building’s aesthetic.
Research led by the Fraunhofer Center For Sustainable Energy Systems finds that solar panels mounted above crops in an agricultural setting can raise the efficiency of the land by 60%. Further research is planned.
Suniva and SolarWorld have filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission claiming cheap solar cells and solar panels from China made it impossible for them to compete and drove them into bankruptcy. The claim is not about subsidies given to those companies by the Chinese government, only that the imported products are cheap and hurt Suniva’s and SolarWorld’s business. (Note that Suniva itself is a subsidiary of a Chinese solar company that opposed the complaint.)
