Solar Archives
“Solar Power” Without the Sun Inventions
Fast Company: Photovoltaic cells are best known for turning sunlight into electrical power—and they’re big business. But did you know that there’s a type→
Solar power and other distributed renewable energy technologies could lay waste to U.S. power utilities and burn the utility business model, which has remained→
Cheaper solar cells will be coming soon, if new research out of Georgia Tech holds up: Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University researchers→
AlertNet: Businesses see an opportunity to turn a buck just about anywhere – even in climate change. According to a report released Monday by→
Business Week: There’s at least one bright spot in the troubled U.S. solar industry. After a plunge in prices sent panel manufacturers reeling, consumer→
Paint on Solar Cells Inventions
Science Daily: Imagine if the next coat of paint you put on the outside of your home generates electricity from light — electricity that→
Generating Light With Gravity Inventions
Gravity Light: Did you know that there are currently over 1.5 billion people in the World who have no reliable access to mains electricity?→
Transparent Solar Film Coming Soon to A Window Near You Why Didn't I Think of That?
Phys.org: One of the holy grails of solar cell technology may have been found, with researchers at UCLA announcing they have created a new→
Solar Powered Tent Ideas
Stephen Key: The UK mobile services company Orange in association with the American product design firm Kaleidoscope designed the Orange Solar Concept Tent; a→
Putting A Solar Twist On An Old Idea Inventions
Knoxville News Sentinel: Matthew Davis, a 1995 industrial design graduate of Purdue University, has developed a solar boiler electrical generator and heat machine that→
EADT24: Tom Seppings, of Beccles, has created the SolaPlug, which aims to make the heating of water cheaper and also easier to fit. The→
New Fabric Generates Electricity Inventions
Colorado State University: Colorado State University apparel design and production researchers and students are working to develop natural-fiber outdoor clothing that can charge MP3→
Okay, so it’s not a coupon purchased over the Internet. However, Daniel Parrella talks with people in his community and helps bring them together,→
In the future, when the power goes out at home, you won’t have to sit in the dark; you’ll just plug in your car.→
An inventor has decided it is not enough to get a great tan while sunbathing during the summer. Andrew Schneider has decided the bikini→
The New Solar Middlemen Ideas
Don’t mind me if I post a bunch about solar power over the next few days. A week without electricity will do that to→
Solar-Powered Heat Inventions
In 2006, as oil prices spiked and people began having trouble meeting their heating costs, one ‘tinkerer’ started looking at alternatives. Edward A. Pratt→
Steve Johnson opened his business, Lightwave Solar Electric LLC, in 2006. He offers a full-service solar panel installation and he has been involved in→
chron: Shan Hussain, 26, a recent graduate of the entrepreneurship program at University of Houston’s C.T. Bauer College of Business, created a solar-powered address→
Imagine a single trailer-mounted device that turns scum into over 20,000 gallons of pure water a day, stores electricity better than a battery, makes→
