Tag: Government
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Obama makes solar energy for low-income housing a priority
The Obama Administration made a bold goal to install 300 MW of new solar panels on federally subsidized low- and moderate- income communities by 2020, and to offer loans and toolkits that further incentivize solar adoption. Those in the solar industry know the the progress that’s been made the last fiveRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Billboard Homeless Shelters Might Soon be a Reality
In early 2014 the company DesignDevelop proposed Project Gregory, which involved building shelters around billboards. This would allow the shelters to rent out advertising space and use the money to finance their running costs. The company now says they could build the first such shelter by early 2015. The Gregory Project homeless shelters are triangular…
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Car Tires Recycled into More Efficient Anodes for Batteries
Discarded rubber tires may soon find a new use. A team of researchers from the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have come up with a method of harvesting the carbon black from them, which can then be used to create anodes for lithium-ion batteries that provide power to plug-in electric vehicles and…
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Shipping Container Inspired Disaster Relief Housing
The firm Garrison Architects in collaboration with New York City recently unveiled the prototype of a modular prefabricated housing system. The structures were developed for quick deployment in the event of another hurricane like Sandy, or other natural disaster. By the looks of it, the houses were also very much inspired by shipping container architecture.…
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Low Cost House is Made From Shipping Containers
Low Cost House is a housing solution designed and built by JYA-RCHITECTS as a home for a family of seven in South Korea. The home is made from three shipping containers that were altered and placed within a separate structure so as to create a comfortable, light filled home for the owners. The name of…