Well, at least the roof rotates. That’s still pretty wild and, it turns out, solar efficient. The Heliotrope, designed by German architect Rolf Disch is a wild looking structure located in Germany that has a rotating array of solar panels to follow the sun during the course of the day. A “Sun Sail” on the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Photovoltaic’
Solar House Doesn’t Just Produce Electricity; It also Rotates
August 23rd, 2010 
Justin Manger Infographic: What if solar power grew as fast as Facebook?
August 21st, 2010 Justin Manger The following interesting graphic comes from 1BOG (One Block Off the Grid), a company that helps consumers pool together to get discounts on solar panel installation. The graph extrapolates the growth of solar power if its use were increasing at the rate of Facebook’s growth. Currently, solar power grows 60% each year, according to 1BOG. [...]
Harnessing Solar Energy for Fuel
August 17th, 2010 Eric Wilson The sun’s energy powers just about everything. Sometimes it does so more directly, as in the conversion of radiant energy to electricity in photovoltaic panels, and others less directly, in the case of plant material that has morphed in petroleum and natural gas found in the earth’s crust. In addition, the sun causes the wind [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Renewable Energy 
Tags: Bio-fuels, California, Department of Energy, Energy, Photovoltaic, Solar Energy 
View CommentsSun-Plugged Solar Bags Hit the Market
July 5th, 2010 guestauthor *This post was written by guest author Chris Dempsey, CEO of American Environmental and Agricultural, Inc. http://americanaea.com/ and partner at Sun-Plugged. It’s happened to all of us. Your cell phone’s battery is drained and you don’t have your power adapter, or you are somewhere without an easily accessible power source. As wonderfully convenient as electronic [...]
Breakthrough in Customizable Solar Panels
May 26th, 2010 Justin Manger Greendix, based in Taiwan, has created the world’s first leaf-shaped solar panel in an effort to make solar power look as green as it really is. The creators of the crystalline silicon solar panels hope that the new shapes will revolutionize the way designers and consumers think about solar energy. Customized shapes, such as leaves, [...]
