Solar Tanning Printer

Solar Tanning Printer uses Sun to Print onto Paper

Nano-Silicon for Solar Cells

This new nano-silicon uses 99% less material to make solar cells. Another good advancement.
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Just Spray Yourself a Solar Aray

Now you can just spray on a solar panel.
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Solar Bulb uses LED Lighting Through Water

This is an interesting way to get "green" lighting.
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The Alpine Capsule--Reflective from the Outside--Transparent from the Inside

I want to sleep under the stars too!
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Nano-rod Coating Collects Almost All Sunlight For Solar Power

This breakthrough allows a solar panel to go from absorbing 67.4 percent to 96.21 percent of sunlight. This is a great step forward in solar engineering.
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Solar Thermal Plant in Bakersfield California

This is a great proof of concept for a renewable energy source. Full Story (Via Inhabitat)

Mini Spy Plane, COM-BAT

This very cool looking bat-like spy plane will have stereo vision, arrays of mini microphones, small detectors for nuclear radiation and poisonous gases, quantum dot solar cells, and an autonomous navigation system that is 1,000 times smaller than current systems. Full Story (Via Inhabitat)

A Solar Tower May Soon be Built in Namibia

These solar towers are great ideas, but the cost (almost a billion dollars) and large land requirement always seem to shut the idea down.
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Sea Water and Solar Collectors Green up the Desert

This is going to cost a lot of money, 80 million Euros, but it will be a great thing to do.
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Dyes on Glass Make 10 Times More Power!

By using dyes on glass MIT scientists have a way to channel photons to the edges of the glass, collecting light that would otherwise be lost. This process makes regular solar cells generate 10 times more power.
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The 2010 Vancouver Olympics will be Green

It is great that the 2010 Olympics will build green housing, but even better will be the use of that housing after the Olympics is over. I especially like the idea of using hydronics.
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A "Living" Building For the Future

It is great to see someone looking further ahead. I think this is the way we will have to go--eventually.
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Antro Solo gets 150 mpg!

It is great to see people thinking outside the box. You go Hungary!
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Seawater Greenhouse Provides Fresh Water and Entertainment

I really enjoy when a green project not only looks great and provides a very useful service, but also is a duel use facility--very cool.
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Lilypad Floating Cities

This cool idea is something that should be done. Each lilypad city would provide all of its own power, and house around 50,000 people.
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Solar Cells with 'Avalanche Effect' Could Greatly Increase Solar Cell Output

TU Delft’s Prof. Laurens Siebbeles has shown the avalanche effect does occur, in lead selenide (PbSe) nanocrystals. This could increase power output by 44%.
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Masdar to Build Underground Personal Transit

Using solar power to run the system, Masdar in Abu Dhabi will provide non-polluting transportation. With 1,500 stations through out the city no one will be more than 200 meters away from any point.
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Hybrid Solar Cells with Nanowires Increases Efficiency

By spiking solar cells with nanowires, UCSD scientists have made, what might be, the most efficient thin-film solar cells yet.
Full Story (Via EurekAlert! Via UCSD Jacobs)

Following Nature (as they should) Solar-powered Lilly Pads May Soon be Found on Scotland's Clyde River

ZM Architecture has plans to put solar cells in the shape of lilly pads up and down the Clyde River just outside of Glasgow Scotland, UK.
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