Energy – Solar PV


Review: XD Design’s Window and Port Solar Chargers

Source: gizmag.com Published: March 1, 2013 Gizmag reviews the Window and Port Solar Chargers from XD Design  By Paul Ridden This time last year, we covered an interesting new solar charger that sought to avoid troublesome shadows from window frames, potted plants and...

Dutch Solar Road Makes Enough Energy to Power Household

Source: aljazeera.com Published: May 10, 2015 by Tarek Bazley Engineers in the Netherlands say a novel solar road surface that generates electricity and can be driven over has proved more successful than expected. Last year they built a 70-metre test track along a...

Korean Highway Has a Solar Panel-Covered Bike Lane Down the Middle

Source: carscoops.com Published: April 5, 2015 BY andrei Click here to watch “Travel from Daejeon to Sejong by bike Watch it”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LuYsYLqjUtU Not sure if this solution has been tried elsewhere, but there really...

WAACS Enables Green Energy Usage On-The-Go With Rollable Solar Charger

Source: designboom.com Published: February 11, 2015 This device enables you to use renewable energy anywhere. All images courtesy of WAACS    Rotterdam-based consultancy studio WAACS has created the ‘rollable solar charger’ to enable green energy usage on-the-go. The...

How Good Design Helped Bring Light to a Remote Area of Indonesia

Source: magazine.good.is Published: April 1, 2015 The Cut Out the Darkness donation ceremony in Sone, Indonesia. Photo courtesy Panasonic 1.3 billion people around the world live without electricity. Here’s how a design challenge is starting to change that. Amie...

A Norwegian Company is Transforming Deserts Into Farmland

Source: smithsonianmag.com Published: March 6, 2015 Seawater is piped to a concentrated solar power plant that powers an evaporative desalination system. The distilled water is used to irrigate plants. (Sahara Forest Project) Solar power plants in Qatar and Jordan,...

The SunSaluter

Source: idealist.org Published: January 21, 2015 The SunSaluter aims to increase energy and clean drinking water accessibility to off-grid communities, and thus mitigate the environmental and health implications from traditional energy and water sources. Furthermore,...