Tag: solar energy
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Tesla Announces Sleek New Solar Panels
Late last year, Tesla unveiled a range of solar panels that were actually roof tiles as well. The price was prohibitive though, since there was no way to install them on an existing roof without some expensive and time-consuming renovations. But this is no longer the case. The company has now added a new product…
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Energy Harvesting Clothing No Longer Just a Dream
Soon, our clothing could harvest enough energy from the sun and from motion to power our gadgets. A team of researchers headed by Zhong Lin Wang, a professor at Georgia Tech, has managed to weave a new type of fabric that is created out of photoanodes, i.e. solar cells made from lightweight polymer fibers, and…
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Solar Powered Clothing
Back to the Future II is one of those movies that continue to influence our imagination even though it was released way back in 1989. It foretold a bunch of advancements that we would have by the year 2015, some of which came very close to coming true, some not so much. The movie also…
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Using Rooftop Solar to Meet the Energy Code
Prime: prime Subtitle: The Energy Rating Index compliance path could allow builders to trade insulation for solar panels …
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Does Cheaper Solar Mean We Can Forget Efficiency?
Prime: prime Subtitle: The ramifications of the falling cost of photovoltaic systems Images: Solar energy has sex appeal. If you want to show the world you’re doing something to reduce pollution, you put photovoltaic(PV) Generation of electricity directly from sunlight. A photovoltaic cell has no moving parts; electrons are energized by sunlight and result in…