If you’ve been trying to figure out the best arguments to use to convince your wife, husband, pool-boy, grandmother, or anyone else why it makes sense to use solar power in your home, or you’re just curious about some of the benefits, then this is the post for you. Here comes my top 5 reasons […]
Environment, Thoughts, money
The Real Top Five Reasons To Go Solar
Future, News
SEIA Says US Solar Market Growing Fast
Yesterday SEIA (Solar Energy Industries Association) released it’s 2007 U.S. Solar Industry Year in Review, and it’s looking good for the US’s progress in implementing solar tech. According to the report, the US solar market has gone up a whooping 45% in the last two years, thanks to new technology, and investment tax credits, among […]
Future, Technology
Solar Power…From Space?
ScienceDaily.com has a great article on some work being done by the Finnish Meteorological Institute on solar-wind sails, which could be used to power spacecraft in the near future.
From the article…
The electric solar wind sail developed by Dr. Pekka Janhunen might revolutionise travelling in space. The electric sail uses the solar wind as its thrust […]
Design, News, Technology
Even More New Tech!
The Australian company Dyesol have been working with Professor John Bell and Queensland University of Technology research department on transparent solar cells that can generate energy while acting as windows.
From ENN.com…..
The solar cells contain titanium dioxide coated in a dye that increases light absorption.
The glass captures solar energy which can be used to power the […]
News
New Solar Tech. Now We’re Getting Somewhere!
From Solar Daily…
Sunovia Energy Technologies and EPIR Technologies announce the development of new solar cell materials that Sunovia and EPIR believe will rival the most efficient multi-junction solar cell performance in existence today at significantly less cost.Sunovia and EPIR plan to accomplish this by uniquely combining the most prevalent photovoltaic (PV) semiconductors in the […]
