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Create Your Own Sun Jar: Lifehacker Edition - DIY Creations - Lifehacker...
(3 reviews)
I want one of these...this is the solution, I'll just have to make one! more...
http://lifehacker.com/5315357/draft-create-your-own-sun-jar-lifehacker
&400bn energy plan to harness African sun - Europe...
(7 reviews)
In a few days' time a consortium of 20 German firms will meet in Munich to hammer out plans for funding the giant €400bn (£343bn) project, named Desertec. The scheme is being backe more...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/euro400bn-energy-plan-t
Technology Review: Nanopillar Solar Cells
(2 reviews)
From the page: "Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have made a new kind of solar cell by growing an array of upright nanoscale pillars on aluminum foil. Th more...
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22958/
Synthetic Trees Set To Combat Climate Change | DevicePedia.com
(9 reviews)
Why not real trees? What to do with the CO2? Good questions. I think the answer may be "sell it." Cynical? Yes. more...
http://www.devicepedia.com/news/synthetic-trees-set-to-combat-climate-
This is How Gorgeous Solar Power can be
(8 reviews)
Global warming is not bull, but reality, I've seen ponds, and lakes that used to freeze over for weeks on end when I was a kid stay ice free for years now. Good to know some are wo more...
http://ecogeek.org/solar-power/2817-this-is-how-gorgeous-solar-power-c
Wind Turbines Could Theoretically Power the Entire World, and Then Some...
(7 reviews)
For me (without doing any of the sums) reducing our power requirements through efficiencies; and more energy coming from renewable and low-carbon sources is the way to go. It's lik more...
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/24/wind-turbines-cou
The Ultimate Modern Desert House
(26 reviews)
From the page: In the desert, there's wind and sun, and the canopy is an obvious solution to use both elements to keep the temperature down inside the house. When the sun hit more...
http://www.jetsongreen.com/2009/06/desert-modern-rimrock-ranch-house.h
Sainsburys pioneers revolutionary green energy kinetic plate system...
(28 reviews)
From the page: "The kinetic road plates are one of a number of energy-saving measures at Sainsbury's new store in Gloucester Quays, Gloucester. The store will harvest rainwate more...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/15/sainsburys-kinetic-p
US breakthrough promises &solar panels& that work in the dark - 13 Aug...
(22 reviews)
From the page: "As every good physicist knows, just because it is dark does not mean there is no light. Or, to put it another way, we are constantly surrounded by infrared more...
http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2223867/breakthrough-
Invention Awards: Power From Shock Absorbers | Popular Science
(7 reviews)
Energy-saving idea for cars. Using the shock absorbers wasted energy to produce electric energy, reducing fuel consumption. Great idea! more...
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-05/power-made-shocks