This is a simple solar furnace, the type of concentration that can it generates is a temperature high enough to melt aluminum and other metals. By following the instructions detailed below you can build a solar concentrator of any size.
It consists of small mirrors stick on one end with silicone and then are adjusted by [...]
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Solar energy is increasingly popular with each jump in the value and power that few people know is the best investment in energy that can be made. Costs may be high at first but a solar panel has no moving parts and their components are silicon, glass, aluminum and some copper.
The average panel consists of [...]
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Worrying that the battery in your mobile phone, iPod or BlackBerry will run out at an inconvenient moment could soon be a thing of the past, according to one of the UK’s leading solar cell manufacturers.
Speaking to BusinessGreen.com, Bob Hertzberg, chairman and founder of G24 Innovations (G24i), said that improvements in battery life and lightweight [...]
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Using solar energy while doing trekking, hiking, climbing or camping is a reality thanks to the line of solar panels developed by rolling and folding FADISOL. Through its innovative technology, the firm gets that solar panels can be useful in any activity that requires easily move the power source. Looking for this purpose, FADISOL create [...]
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HelioSphera plans to spend $500 million to build a solar panel factory in Philadelphia. The city is offering to help offset the cost.
The private Greek company will start building the 500,000-square foot factory in the Navy Yard next year, and expects to start operating it in 2011, reported the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Philadelphia is offering $49 million [...]
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Chemist Daniel Nocera of MIT made news by trying to mimic photosynthesis, and improve on it. The idea seems simple: split water into hydrogen and oxygen with sunlight, and then recombine them which releases the energy in a fuel cell when the power is needed. The goal is to do both these things cheaply. [...]
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A lamp that sticks to the window during the day to load and then stick to it, can be a good source of lighting at night.
A Hong Kong inventor named Kaikko Lee has designed a lamp on the thickness of a card that uses 100% solar energy and significantly reduces manufacturing materials. And while many [...]
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LG has presented a new prototype of e-book reader, a quite special one because what is innovative in this product is not that it is an e-book reader, the big ¡deal is that it works with integrated solar panels.
This reader is powered with a 10 x 10com solar panel that can char for up to [...]
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Wouldn´t you like to spend time lying in the sun. Now you can make the sun shine for you while soaking up the rays.
The lounger has a panel on the head comprises a solar panel that acts as a shadow and moves to take away the sun.
At the same time collects solar energy. That is [...]
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In the last article we talked about Tesla Motors and its electric sports car.
Here you have son interesting data about the vehicle:
* Goes from 0 to 100 km/hr in less than 4 seconds
* Runs for 392 Km. with only one recharge.
* The cost for km is less than 2 dollar cents.
* Its engine is almost [...]
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