Posted on August 18th, 2008 by admin
A couple of weeks back I talked about how Portland, Oregon was developing a system of plug-in hybrid vehicle recharging stations. Well, now, I’ve learned that Portland is once again the site of a new kind of alternative energy technology, this time solar. Solar-powered Information Access Points (IAP) are being developed by Vibrant City Technology.
The [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2008 by admin
So, as I’m cruising around the Internet researching alternative energy news stories today, I stumbled across one odd solar-powered device in the headlines after another. Some of these photovoltaic devices are rough prototypes delivered by school kids while others are odd solar powered devices that may be used in developing nations.
Summer camp kids at the [...]
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Posted on July 18th, 2008 by admin
Two days ago I talked about residential solar panels being installed standard in a master-planned community in Colorado. While most homeowners see solar panels as optional equipment for the home, in this 100-percent sustainable community they are part of the standard green lifestyle.
Now the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed more breakthrough solar technology [...]
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Posted on July 16th, 2008 by admin
I’ve already talked about how residential solar panels are getting cheaper in California. But, imagine now not only a new home that already has solar panels installed, but the whole neighborhood.
This is what is taking place in Colorado between Denver and Boulder with the Geos master-planned eco-community. Residential solar panels on all of the homes [...]
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Posted on July 11th, 2008 by admin
Sopogy, Incorporated has broken ground on the Big Island of Hawaii on the Keahole Solar Power renewable energy farm. This solar farm will be the first of its kind to use Sopogy’s large-scale MicroCSP solar concentrating system.
The Sopogy MicroCSP solar collector uses optics and reflectors (sans smoke and mirrors) to create heat that turns its [...]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by admin
In a move to delay and stall the proliferation of solar energy, the Federal government including the Bush administration and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) have decided to stop the moratorium madness. Last month, the BLM (or BM as some have called it) decided to put a freeze on solar applications for building photovoltaic [...]
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Posted on June 13th, 2008 by admin
A few weeks back I had talked about how residential solar panels would become less expensive for some in California, especially those in Santa Cruz. Well, now its large neighbor to the north, San Francisco seeks to become the first solar megalopolis in the United States.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has just passed a [...]
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Posted on May 30th, 2008 by admin
The beef against residential solar panels for so many years is that they have been too expensive to install upon one’s home. But, at least in California the price of residential solar panels will be coming down considerably.
A bill passed by state Assemblyman Mark Leno (no relation to Jay Leno) has just passed 76-0 and [...]
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Posted on May 28th, 2008 by admin
On Leap Year Day this year (February 29) I had talked about a new solar iPhone charger that was on the market from Freeloader. Now, Apple has taken a leap of its own by filing for a patent for a solar iPhone 2.0.
Of course photovoltaic cells on small portable devices have been around for a [...]
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Posted on May 16th, 2008 by admin
This week a couple of important solar breakthroughs have surfaced in the news. Both IBM and Physicist Bram Hoex (and colleagues) have demonstrated two different solar breakthroughs worth noting.
The IBM solar breakthrough involves using a thin liquid metal layer of gallium and indium that is cooled by a plate of copper. By use of solar [...]
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