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Solar Panels! What if you could build a home that only needs 30% as many pa
2008-07-22 17:52:00 Is there any structural engineers or home builders online that would be interested in looking into the latest building system for homes and commercial? The system is for the entire shell of the building not just walls like others. It is Florida approved and is actually better in northern climates.
Apple Patent Places Solar Panels Behind LCD Screen
2008-05-26 21:28:00 Yet another Apple patent has been uncovered showing that Apple has been looking into the use of solar energy to supplement battery life for their mobile devices, including both their portable computers, iPhone and iPod touch. The patent shows various ways of integrating solar cells that collect energy from light to help power the device.
Self-adhesive Solar Panels
2008-05-13 05:50:00 Remember when the stamp became self-adhesive? It made stamp glue aftertaste a thing of the past. Well now technology is so advanced that even Solar Panel have been designed to be self-adhesive. That's right! A peel and stick solar panel is now on the solar panel option list. Technorati Tags: Architecture Art and Design Environment History Home Outdoors Products Science Technology
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Peel-and-stick solar panels.
2008-05-12 19:32:00 We don't think it's as easy as your everyday peel-and-stick adhesive bumper sticker, but just the same. It sounds like a major improvement from the tedious drilling and constructing that goes into the installation of ordinary solar panels. The Lumeta PowerPly solar panels are glued in place on the roof, using adhesives normally used in roofing. So far the method/product is only available for commercial buildings, but we hope an application for private homes will be in the market soon.
By: Smart Stuff
Lumeta?s ?peel & stick? solar panels
2008-05-12 17:56:00 You want some of that sweet solar juice, but you don’t want to tear up your roof just to get solar panels installed. Lumeta’s PowerPly could be the answer. The panels use traditional roofing adhesives, that most roofers will be familiar with, and the process means that there is no need to drill holes and ...
By: SlipperyBrick
Developers may get grants of up to S$1m when installing solar panels - Sing
2008-05-06 23:52:00 Developers may get grants of up to S$1m when installing solar panels - Singapore By Ng Baoying, Â SINGAPORE: The Economic Development Board (EDB) has unveiled more details of the Solar Capability Scheme, aimed at spurring demand for clean technology and building up expertise in the new industry. The S$20 million scheme was first announced in Parliament in April by Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry, S Iswaran. The EDB said it expects to fund up to 100 projects. Under the scheme, new buildings need a minimum Green Mark Gold standard to qualify for a 30 to 40 per cent grant, while existing buildings will be assessed on a case by case basis. Ko Kheng Hwa, Managing Director, Economic Development Board, said: “We expect interest, and this interest should grow as greater awareness seeps into the industry. Today, the very early adopters are already implementing some form of solar energy systems. “So with this scheme, we are partially offsetting their initial capit...
Affordable Solar Panels
2008-04-30 03:35:00 Many people like myself have searched for several years to find a cheap affordable solution using solar panels for your residential home. Unfortunately the cost has always outweighed the benefit of being off grid. The upfront capital investment in solar panels would take 20 years to succesfully pay off and maybe more. Deep cycle batteries ...
Fighting for space for solar panels?
2008-04-10 04:21:00 I was wondering when the day would hit that people would be squabbling over space for their solar panels, or at least unshaded space.. Apparently that day has already arrived. Here is some food for thought from independent.co.uk: “By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles Thursday, 10 April 2008 Who wins the prize for environmental correctness ? ...
War of the Greens: Trees vs. Solar Panels
2008-04-10 03:06:00 Think you’ve got property rights? Depends on which side of the solar power issue you’re on. Newsbusters Suppose you had trees on your property that served as a privacy barrier and provided shade for your home. Then imagine your eco-minded neighbor installs solar panels and demands you cut down your trees so sunlight can reach his panels. You ...
Qatar Environment: Waste, Solar Panels and Electricity
2008-04-02 13:54:00 After writing my recent post on environment in Qatar, I was impressed to see that Qatar is now planning to start producing electricity from waste. According to an article in the Gulf Times today, a waste plant which will be opened next year will produce enough electricity (40 mega watts) both to power all the plant's needs and those of its 400 employees and their families. The electricity will be generated through the process of composting organic domestic waste, which can then be used as fertilizer. In total, the plant hopes to recycle 50% of domestic rubbish. The story follows on from news in February that reports Qatar is considering building one of the largest solar power complexes in the world to meet soaring electricity demand, which is predicted to increase by up to four times in the next 30 years. The solar farm would have a capacity of 3,500 megawatts. Qatar is also considering additional energy from a nuclear power plant.Also see Qatar's Natural History by author France...
By: Qatar Visitor
Solar Panels and the Quest for $1/Watt
2008-03-31 03:38:00 If solar panels cost $1/watt, you can sell them (installation included) for $2/watt. Coal (installation included) costs $2.10/watt. To date, solar is still reaching to compete with coal, but the...
By: Green Options
SOCAL EDISON WANTS TO COVER CALIFORNIA ROOFTOPS IN SOLAR PANELS
2008-03-27 20:34:00 Filed under: Misc. Gadgets We've seen a few massive solar farms pop up out west, but it looks like Southern California Edison is taking a different approach: instead of cluttering up the desert, the company plans to build a distributed solar array on the rooftops of commercial buildings throughout SoCal. The plan is to spend $875M over five years to cover about two square miles of rooftop with the panels, which will alleviate stress on the grid by generating around 250 megawatts of juice, as much as a small power plant. That's enough to light up 162,000 homes, but it's still a little short of the record 280-megawatt Solana installation planned in Arizona -- come on, Cali, let's see a little fight. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
How Solar Panels Could Power 90% of US Transportation
2008-03-25 22:26:00 In January, Scientific American writers unleashed an ambitious plan to halt global warming, eliminate our dependence on petroleum and the substantial trade deficit, boost the economy and create 3...
By: Green Options
DIY Solar Panels
2008-03-17 16:00:00 This is not your ordinary DIY job; these panels are made from discarded and broken solar panels that can be found down at the tip or any other place that may take trash. But what the people who have thrown these away do not realise is that these panels are still ok to use. Sure they don’t as clean and shiny as new ones, but they are free and do work! Tools needed: To start making solar panels from broken solar cells you need a few things. 15-25 watt soldering iron Light duty 60/40 electronics rosin core solder (radio shack $5.00 for a roll). You can use a silver solder, but I think it’s too expensive, and the difference in resistance is minimal. So I just use regular old electronics solder. Multimeter Pencil eraser Solar tabbing pre tinned ribbing (ebay 100 feet is like $20 bucks) A good flat sturdy working surface ( I use a piece of glass, but whatever you have will do) Source [Instructables] 20 bucks, alternative energy, pencil eraser, piece of glass, Solar Power, s...
Danish Researchers Announce a New Type of Plastic Solar Panels
2008-03-08 11:12:00 According to AP, a team of Danish researchers said on Friday that they have developed a new type of plastic solar panel that has a much longer life span than the previous versions. In the same time, it Related PostShanghai Will Have Rooftops with Solar PanelsAnother Type of Nano-technology Inspired by NatureA New Type of Three-Dimensional Microscope ...
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Shanghai Will Have Rooftops with Solar Panels
2008-03-08 11:12:00 According to China Daily, a government-funded project, to turn Shanghai’s roofs into sites for solar-energy production, will soon be submitted for final approval. If the project becomes operational, 100,000 of the 6 million roofs in Shanghai, a city plagued by chronic power shortages, will be used to supply solar energy to local residents, revealed Professor Cui ...
By: 中国糖尿病网
Solar Panels
2008-02-23 07:47:00 hi. im working in a hotel. we have solar panels for our hotwater source. my question is: how can i make the solar energy more useable besides of the usage of hot water? any idea? and how do i know the capacity of its enregy? for example if i convert this into electrical energy? solar panels:(L=1m x
DIY Solar panels
2008-02-21 18:00:00 Some people can really get into doing things for themselves, like the man who built these solar panels. This is great stuff and shows how easy or rather they make it look easy, doing things like this can really be. What you need: 18 evacuated tubes Collector Aluminium frame for the roof Wilo rs15 pump (48 watts on its lowest ...
Solar panels that work in the dark
2008-02-07 19:31:00 The biggest problem with the sun is that it's not always around. And during the winter months it behaves like an absentee landlord and shows up only for a few hours. Unfortunately, solar panels must contend with this erratic behavior if they are to save us from ourselves. If only there was a panel that worked in the dark...Well, guess what? It looks like we might now be on the brink of technology that effectively deals with sun's temperament. Thanks to the wonders of nanotechnology and, in no small part the efforts of Steven Novack of the Idaho National Laboratories, there are now foldable panels that operate at 80 percent efficiency. Conventional photovoltaics yield only about 40 percent. But as EcoGeek explains, "the surface of the material is printed with miniscule nano-antennae that capture infra-red radiation, the kind that the sun puts out in abundance, and is even available at night." Scientists are still working on converting the light into those hard working electro...
By: Ghepardoo's Blog
How To: Cheap or Free Solar Panels
2008-02-07 01:17:00 My cousin mentioned to me that her family wanted to install solar panels on their roof. She said it was a huge disappointment because it was far too expensive. It would take twenty years for them to...
By: Green Options
Do it yourself solar panels and propane gas freezer
2008-01-22 22:38:00 hi one wants to make himself solar photovoltaic panels. is it possible to buy components and do it yourself on either rigid or flexible panels ? any design for a do it yourself propane freezer ? thanks
Flat solar panels
2008-01-22 17:00:00 This is a serious flexible solar power panel, which is not like any of the others around that can barely charge up a cell phone! It will deliver a massive 52 W of power which is powerful enough to charge up a car battery is required, so that just gives you an idea of the ...
Will Ferrell Sponsors Solar Panels For Skid Row Housing
2008-01-19 01:45:00 The Solar Neighbors program started by actor Edward Norton and BP is once again spreading some good clean energy. The idea behind the program is simple: Every time an invited celebrity purchases a BP solar system for their home, BP donates a similar system to be installed on a low-income family?s home in South ...
By: Ecorazzi
What Are The Options When Buying Solar Panels?
2007-12-24 19:59:00 The idea of being able to produce your own electricity is very attractive to many people. The main problem a lot of people face is finding the money to pay for the initial cost. The average home will need very large panels in order to be able to produce sufficient electricity. Therefore panels tend to cover the whole of a south-facing roof.Check Full Article
Nanosolar - Solar Panels
2007-12-23 03:29:00 Want to Buy Panels? We are presently already sold out for the next 12 months. We are working hard to scale our production capacity as fast as possible. Please sign up above to be notified of availability (nanosolar.com). Sold OUT ? As oil prices continu...
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$1 per watt solar panels
2007-12-21 23:06:00 Found this on Slashdot today: “A Silicon Valley start-up called Nanosolar has shipped its first solar panels ? priced at $1 a watt. That’s the price at which solar energy gets cheaper than coal. While other companies have been focusing their efforts on increasing the efficiency of solar panels, Nanosolar took a different approach. It focused ...
What Are The Options When Buying Solar Panels?
2007-12-21 15:09:00 The idea of being able to produce your own electricity is very attractive to many people. The main problem a lot of people face is finding the money to pay for the initial cost. The average home will need very large panels in order to be able to produce sufficient electricity. Therefore panels tend to cover the whole of a south-facing roof.Check Full Article
How To Have A Solar-heated Home Without Solar Panels
2007-12-21 15:03:00 Would you like your new house to be warm in the winter and cool in the summer without the use of air-conditioning, heating, or even solar power panels? You can. It's called passive solar, and is all about how you design your home and where you place it on your property.The first thing to understand about passive solar is that it doesn't have anything to do with solar panels, photovoltaic cells, or any other technology. The whole idea is to build and situation your home in such a way as to harness a maximum amount of the sun's energy in the winter, while blocking the sun's rays from heating your home in the summer. And you do it all simply by understanding how the Sun moves where you live. How Does Passive Solar Work? There are three main elements that make a passive solar home different from a conventional home: South-facing windows; a ledge of a certain length and angle above those windows; and a mass-wall. The ledge above the windows is short enough and placed at such an angle...
By: Home Design 365
What Are The Options When Buying Solar Panels?
2007-12-18 23:57:00 The idea of being able to produce your own electricity is very attractive to many people. The main problem a lot of people face is finding the money to pay for the initial cost. The average home will need very large panels in order to be able to produce sufficient electricity. Therefore panels tend to cover the whole of a south-facing roof.Check Full Article
Home Solar Panels - A Green Solution for Your Home
2007-12-08 15:08:00 All you have to do is to put a few home solar panels on your roof and make your own energy. The utility bill is constantly going up, so it does sound like a perfect solution. And you would also help save the environment by using green energy.Check Full Article
Home Solar Panels
2007-12-07 23:52:00 Solar PV (photovoltaic) uses the suns energy to produce electricity which can run lighting and electrical appliances. It requires only daylight, to produce electricity and so can still generate some power on a cloudy day. PV cells (arrays) are referred to in terms of the amount of energy they generate in full sunlight; known as kilowatt peak or kWp.Check Full Article
What Are The Options When Buying Solar Panels?
2007-12-05 22:43:00 The idea of being able to produce your own electricity is very attractive to many people. The main problem a lot of people face is finding the money to pay for the initial cost. The average home will need very large panels in order to be able to produce sufficient electricity. Therefore panels tend to cover the whole of a south-facing roof.Check Full Article
Home Solar Panels - A Green Solution for Your Home
2007-12-04 21:54:00 All you have to do is to put a few home solar panels on your roof and make your own energy. The utility bill is constantly going up, so it does sound like a perfect solution. And you would also help save the environment by using green energy.Check Full Article
Home Solar Panels
2007-12-03 22:26:00 Solar PV (photovoltaic) uses the suns energy to produce electricity which can run lighting and electrical appliances. It requires only daylight, to produce electricity and so can still generate some power on a cloudy day. PV cells (arrays) are referred to in terms of the amount of energy they generate in full sunlight; known as kilowatt peak or kWp.Check Full Article
What Are The Options When Buying Solar Panels?
2007-12-01 22:21:00 The idea of being able to produce your own electricity is very attractive to many people. The main problem a lot of people face is finding the money to pay for the initial cost. The average home will need very large panels in order to be able to produce sufficient electricity. Therefore panels tend to cover the whole of a south-facing roof.Check Full Article
Polymer solar panels that are cheaper, lighter and greener
2007-12-01 03:09:00 Don't run yet! I'm the first who would like to cover my car with film and get it powered to run on photovoltaic energy, but that option isn't hear yet. New research could make it a little bit closer, though. Physicist Neil Greenham from Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory had been researching polymer light emitting diodes (LEDs), used for displays in some televisions, MP3 players and mobile phones. But then he joined a research group trying to use similar polymers to generate electricity from light. Now, his work has resulted an organic solar cell that doesn't use expensive silicon. Silicon-made photovoltaic panels are expensive, heavy and not very green to make. Nevertheless, this technology has a drawback: very low efficiency. While state-of-the-art silicon panels can yield 40 percent efficiency, commercially available panels usually get about 15 percent. Greenham's target is 5 percent, which could power many types of devices with a cheaper cost. To make things more ...
RV Solar Panels: Working Towards No Emissions
2007-11-16 23:20:00 Nil or at least minimal emissions – this is the aim of vehicle companies nowadays, many of which having had expressed their concern about how carbon and fossil fuels have so far caused grave damage to our environment. All I can say is – it is just about time. Or has it been an otherwise good decision that has all but come too late?If anyone would really desire less damaging emissions, then the ordinary consumer and vehicle owner can do their part. If home solar panel is ideal power alternative source for the homes, then the RV solar panel is a great compliment, if not replacement for the conventional fuel generator.We all know how immense and large scale the emissions are, which in turn can be very damaging to the air that we breathe these generators create. Definitely, in the grand and noble design of saving the world from further damage brought about by these generators, we can count on alternative sources of energy such as the sun, water and wind.The most popular source is th...
Latest Home Solar Panels: Compact and Portable
2007-11-15 06:49:00 While we may be familiar with the conventional home solar panel, as well as other sun-powered gadgets such as outdoor solar light and RV solar panel, there is a continuous discovery and invention of newer and better solar gadgets.Aside from the fact that the latest home solar panel now is more efficient and reliable, it is much better in terms of its appearance and weight.The latest solar panels are now more compact and sleek. In fact, there are models that are foldable and portable. These are the type that you need when power is a requirement especially during your hiking adventure or outdoor activities.You can see how flexible solar panels are today. Many can be folded and brought along during any trip. And when you arrive at your site, just take them out for easy mounting.Another advantage of these compact, foldable sun-powered gadgets is that they are very light in weight. And perhaps because of its lightweight components, the price is low compared to the conventional home solar...
How it?s made - Solar Panels
2007-11-01 00:00:00 Have you ever wondered how solar panels were made? Then check out this ?How It's Made? segment on the ?Solar Panels?. Video after the jump.
By: 2dayblog
Solar panels look better these days
2007-10-04 17:00:00 It?s true to say that solar panels never used to be the most prettiest of eco friendly additions that you could make to home, they were large and not very efficient. But forget about that now, for solar panels have had a make over and they are looking good. Solar technology has move along so ...
Do electric cars, hybrids and solar panels kill third world babies?
2007-09-30 21:19:00 There is a lot of debate about the real world economics of electric cars, hybrids and other alternative power-trains relative to a conventional gas or diesel fueled car. Over at Electronic Design News, Paul Rako has taken a different approach to evaluating the value proposition. He hearkens back to the old TV commercials with Sally Struthers urging viewers to donate money to help feed starving children. Using that as the basis for a virtual currency unit he calls the Struther which is defined as the cost of keeping a child alive for five years he calculates the cost of various options. Some of his calculations are a bit dubious however such as the assumption that the battery in a hybrid only last five years. The idea that spending nearly $100K on a Tesla roadster will sacrifice the lives of fifty children is also questionable. After all, any new technology usually comes in at a high initial price that is necessary to seed a market. Where Rako's calculations make perhaps a little mo...
Cutting Solar Panels' High Price Tag
2007-09-25 18:41:00 From CNET News.com: For all the technical advances in the thriving solar power industry, the large up-front costs of solar elect...
Solar power for Electric Tools and laptops
2007-09-12 03:03:00 Sunshine Solar Briefcase Charger Amorphous 13 Watt This solar panel is very affordable and the perfect first time solar project starter. You can use this when you go out to remote areas to build and work on a cabin in the woods and other places not accessible to electric pole and wires. If you have a ...
SOLAR PANELS EARNINGS ?Solartron struggles with sales slowdown
2007-09-09 22:53:00 http://www.bangkokpost.com/Busi-ness/10Sep2007_biz28.php Monday September 10, 2007 “SOLAR PANELS EARNINGS Solartron struggles with sales slowdown ARANEE JAIIMSIN Solartron Plc, a SET-listed solar module assembler, will struggle to break even in the current poor investment climate, says chief executive Akaradej Rojmeta. The company expects to report lower sales compared to last year, which stood at 1.11 billion baht. He ...
Solar Panels
2007-09-07 21:12:00 Personally I just can not believe the cost of energy these days ad it just keeps on going up…and noticeably too. Not just like a few cents each month - I mean like dollars and lots of them and it is really adding up quickly these days. But there are so many things ...
Solar Panels
2007-08-30 11:12:00 Energy is one of the most valuable resource for the human life. Every day, on newspapers or TV, we read and watch about environmental problems directly correlated with energy production (like carbon, petroleum and so on)....and the road to gain autonomy by non renewable fonts is extremely long. If you make a search, on the entire planet, you will find very little energy production implants based on renewable fonts like the solar or the wind one. The environmental problem is not only a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Solar panels as standard
2007-08-25 23:00:00 Well if you live in California and are about to buy a new home. Because developers are now fitting solar panels to the roofs of their new homes. This is a great way of including a nice selling point to the home, while also staying in league with the local authorities, as we all know, ...
Glass Solar Panels
2007-07-28 16:22:00 With the bit of cash I had left over this week from my paycheck, I bought some smaller solar panels on eBay to put together into a larger panel. They shipped out today, and are glass panels (6″x12″), not the traditional silicon wafer type. Here is an article describing the differences I wanted to get some of ...
NJIT Researchers Develop Inexpensive, Easy Process To Produce Solar Panels
2007-07-27 08:47:00 Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets. ?The process is simple,? said lead researcher and author Somenath Mitra, PhD, professor and acting chair of NJIT?s Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences. ?Someday homeowners will even be able to print sheets of these solar cells with inexpensive home-based inkjet printers. Consumers can then slap the finished product on a wall, roof or billboard to create their own power stations.??Fullerene single wall carbon nanotube complex for polymer bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells,? featured as the June 21, 2007 cover story of the Journal of Materials Chemistry published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, details the process. The Society, based at Oxford University, is the British equivalent of the American Chemical Society.Harvesting energy directly from abundant solar radiation using solar cells is increasingly emergi...
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