[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f__uQhqaAJE&version=3&hl=en_US] This project illustrated above uses the mini solar cell devices by Shawn Frayne and Alex Hornstein as well as their solar-on-the-back-of-a-card trick. Now, you’re also adding in a glass bottle. If you’re up for the challenge/fun, this Instructables post tells you everything you need to know to produce it. Here are some pics … [continued]
It’s nice to hear a story once in a while about older industries using newer, cleaner technologies in the path towards environmental sustainability. Take the case of Trina Solar’s new Honey Photovoltaic (PV) modules, which are helping the Sagewerke Christen AG sawmill in Luthern in the canton of Lucerne go … [continued]
One of China’s leading solar power product manufacturers, JinkoSolar, has won a contract to supply 30 megawatts of photovoltaic (PV) modules for a PV power plant project planned for Hami city in the Xinjiang Province of China. The contract was awarded by China Guangdong Nuclear Solar Energy Development, a wholly-owned … [continued]
More than 600 people attended the pre-proposal conference for the $7 billion Renewable and Alternative Energy Power Production for DoD Installations Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) hosted by the U.S. Army and Corps of Engineers (USACE) on August 22. The Corps of Engineers, through its Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, issued … [continued]
Now that renewables are receiving some of the same incentives that fossil fuels have enjoyed for nearly one hundred years, we’re suddenly being inundated with calls for a purely “free-market” approach to energy development from politicians on the right and companies concerned about the growth of clean energy. Their … [continued]
Earlier this month, SolarCity and the Hawai‘i State Department of Transportation (DOT) celebrated the completion of a 112-kilowatt solar photovoltaic (PV) system at the Kona International Airport with a traditional Hawaiian blessing. The system is set to provide the airport wastewater treatment plant with power and is the first of eight … [continued]
Massachusetts’s clean energy investments and incentive programs are paying off handsomely in terms of economic stimulus and jobs growth, as well as reducing carbon emissions and environmental degradation. […]
Researchers have created a “nano machine shop” that is able to shape nanowires and ultrathin films into exact forms. This new method could represent a revolutionary future manufacturing method for tiny structures. The manipulated structures could be fine-tuned for diverse applications such as high-speed electronics and solar cells. Their … [continued]
SMA Solar has announced that it would enter the market of solar-diesel power networks with a new product line of solar panels. This has left analysts hopeful that sales at the company will be boosted. This new solar panel product line allows diesel generators to draw power from solar … [continued]
Tenaska Solar Ventures LLC, an affiliate of Tenaska, which is based in Omaha, announced that it has acquired the Silverleaf solar project. This is a proposed 160-MW (megawatt) photovoltaic power plant under development in southern California from Agile Solar Holdings, an affiliate of Agile Energy and Bregal Energy, which … [continued]
