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 [...]
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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 [...]
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, [...]

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