High tech fabrics are moving from science fiction to reality. It won’t be long before you can rest your head on a pillow to monitor your brain waves, wear a t-shirt that can keep track of your heart rate, or even charge your cell phone with a solar powered dress. And, no… we are not [...]
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In beautiful Central Oregon where I live, there are several things that are abundant here: sunshine and property are two of them. Wide open spaces and sunny skies are a wonderful combination! Many people here own larger tracts of property that they farm and/or on which they raise livestock. More and more often, I’m noticing [...]
We’ve blogged about solar powered airplanes in recent months, but the interest has seemed to be with respect to their novelty, rather than a real potential way to address the massive amounts of fuel consumed by aircraft (and corresponding CO2 emissions). Recognizing the need for a variety of aircraft to serve multiple purposes, Virginia-based Aurora [...]
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Solar powered assist for mass transit is rolling out in California. Sunpods Inc, and San Francisco-based Bauer Intelligent Transportation developed a system in just 6 weeks’ time, which uses thin film solar panels on the roofs of buses to power an on-board battery bank. Solar energy absorbed by the panels provide a solar powered assist [...]
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Weaving solar cells into flexible solar powered threads could be the answer to solar fabrics. A Tokyo-based venture company, Ideal Star has come up with a way to incorporate solar cells into threads that one day will create material for use in energy-generating clothing and curtains. Because the solar threads are coated, the need for [...]
Reuters announced last Friday that Google has developed a prototype for new solar mirror technology. Also known as heliostats, the structures are placed on acres of land and used to focus sunlight on a tower to superheat water, which then turns turbines for clean, renewable energy. Google’s technology has the promise of cutting the cost [...]
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