A young man from Pakistan, Farrukh Khan, has built an interesting homemade solar-powered electric tricycle for a price tag that comes well under $600. Khan even provides detailed photo and a design template on the Instructables website for a small monthly subscription fee ($1.95 – 3.95).
The US market for solar PV will double in 2011 despite the hard economic times, as plunging prices and policy incentives underpin growth. A strong project pipeline, and growing demand from utilities, driven by the need to meet Renewable Portfolio Standard targets, will result in constant annual growth rates of 47% out to 2015, according to research from Solarbuzz.
A look at the evolution of electric vehicles and the first Better Place battery-swapping launch in the world, in Israel this August.
Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have constructed an improved energy-dense lithium-ion battery of tin and graphene.
IKEA, the world’s largest furniture retailer from Sweden, has set a goal to derive all of its energy from renewable sources, and it is now installing 39,000 solar panels on the rooftops of it’s stores in the United Kingdom to help achieve that goal.
The giant 290-megawatt Agua Caliente Solar Power Project is one step closer to bringing 400 new green jobs to Arizona, thanks to a $967 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy that will get the thin-film photovoltaic project off the ground. The new facility, sponsored by solar giant NRG, will deploy two cutting edge technologies that improve the stability of power supply from the plant to the grid.
A partnership created on the TV show “The Secret Millionaire” is setting up a new fund to assist rooftop solar power projects.
Freetricity is to provide up to £150,000 in funding for the installation of solar setups for both public and private businesses.
I just received an email about a new group buying option in the UK that can reduce the cost of solar power by up to 50%! This looks like a great program similar to the US’ 1BOG and, more generally, to the widely and wildly popular Groupon.
For years, in truth until this morning, I would have said that the rotation of the radiometer’s vanes was caused by the pressure differential of the photons reflecting or being absorbed by the dark or light colored vanes. I was wrong, then and now.
The IEEE has completed its 802.22 ‘TV White Spaces’ standard for wireless broadband networking. With a 100 km (62 mile) range, the so-called ‘Super Wi-Fi’ standard is expected to spur broadband adoption in rural areas, improve ‘last-mile’ network connectivity and alleviate broadband network congestion without interfering with VHF and UHF TV transmissions.
