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Sage Electrochromics, which makes energy-saving glass, has received $20 million in funding from Good Energies, Bekaert, and Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials.

Konarka has successfully developed a range of organic thin-film solar cell modules which were made possible thanks to a roll-to-roll process, and the unprecedented flexibility of such prototypes allow them to be attached to a bag and used as a power source of an electronic paper. The energy conversion efficiency of these super thin solar [...]

Sharp aims to roll out its Residential Solar Power Generation Systems that are compatible with “Roofit Design” which will see efficient installation of photovoltaic modules on a wide range of roof shapes with various roof surface areas.

General Motors will be partnering with Clairvoyant Energy, Veolia Environmental and the Government of Aragon to install the World’s Largest rooftop solar array on its Zaragosa assembly plant in Spain.

Generally, solar panels are made out of silicon, and there’s a lot of silicon used in them. The increasing demand of silicon led to a rise in its price. The new silicon nanowire solar cells consist of arrays of radial p-n junction nanowires where the darker outer shell is composed of n-type silicon, to which [...]

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We have seen before how everyone puts solar panels on everything, including caps, but this time it took the design a little further.
This visor has built-in speakers on each side, a solar panel and an antenna to capture radio waves and listening to music.
The design is quite innovative, but we’d like that you could also [...]

 They produce around 80 million cubic meters of hot water with solar energy per year, representing over 80% worldwide. A lot of houses in China has a solar heater.
Why do not more people opt for solar water heaters?
There are countries in which such a facility could cost up to 5 thousand dollars, and apparently according [...]

Heard about this grand solar thermal effort from a friend in the business today who was in the Mojave at Fort Irwin recently. What he relayed was a California desert version of New England’s own beleaguered Cape Wind project … a project with vision and scale in spades, but with regulators pledging a 6 - [...]

Appearing for all the world like a habitable version of Chicago’s Cloud Gate, Lovegrove Studios‘ futuristic Alpine Capsule is designed to blend in with nature, reflecting and complementing its immediate environment. Powered by solar panels and a vertical axis wind turbine, the off-grid alpine retreat features a shimmering glass skin with a reflective coating that [...]

One of the stranger-looking representatives of the electric car revolution is approaching its public debut. The Aptera 2e, an all-electric car that the company calls an “aerodynamic marvel,” has reached pre-production and is scheduled to start being manufactured in October of this year.

Would you like going on your nearest river or sea or ocean in a summer day? Would you like cruising all day powered only by a solar battery? Well, for 10,500$ you could. Hammacher Schlemmer has built a small solar powered boat for two person.

The brightening each day closer to spring and summer, so even for solar-powered glider that run only (!) Of sunlight energy. It is Schweich’iska Solar Flight with his Sunseeker II which has several solar projects going on, blah an airship (type less Zeppelin) including the solar-powered!

The Solar TowerSolarMission owns the license to breakthrough Solar Tower large-scale renewable energy technology with the potential to challenge the energy industry as it is operates today. The technology is based on the concept developed by renowned German structural engineer Professor Jörg Schlaich, founder and principal of leading structural engineers, Schlaich Bergermann and Partners.
Solar Towers [...]

If you watch The Green Optimistic you already know that we covered air cars in previous posts, both MDI CAT’s and the Angelo DiPietro air motor. The first time we wrote about these inventions was about 6 months ago. Now, MDI and Angelo DiPietro have contracts all over the world with auto makers to sell [...]