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Louis Palmer is a school teacher from Switzerland who is on a world wide tour to raise awareness of global warming and the affects that petroleum has on the world. The alternative solution he’s demonstrating to get around is a solar [...]
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Posted on June 10th, 2008 by admin
Can one person really make a difference in the world? In this case it’s a husband and wife team of Martha & Michael Port that definitely can inspire the world to ease the daily task of cooking. The Ports were inspired by statistics from the U.N. about billions of people around the world who couldn’t [...]
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Posted on June 7th, 2008 by admin
Imagine cooking food with only the energy of the sun. No cords, no heating element, no gas, and no electricity. Solar cooker has been around since the 1700s but not until this century that it became more popular. There are 3 basic models. Box cookers, Panel cookers and Parabolic cookers. The way these work, the [...]
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Posted on May 30th, 2008 by admin
I came across this intriguing article by Lara Farra from CNN about solar farms out in space. According to the article an “American scientist Peter Glaser introduced the idea of space solar power in 1968.” How do you suppose that energy gets sent back to earth? By a long power cord? Nope it’s electromagnetically beamed [...]
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Posted on May 27th, 2008 by admin
Here’s a cool device that captures the sun’s light to be used as interior lighting for retail shops or office buildings. It’s primary sun collector mirror reflects the light to a smaller secondary mirror to filter out the UV and infrared wavelengths to eliminate the heat. From there the light gets directed to the fiber [...]
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Posted on May 26th, 2008 by admin
Ever went camping or doing anything outdoors and don’t have access to an outlet? I’ve been on a camping trip where I would run out my cell phone batteries trying to coordinate with my friends on a camp site. This IceTech solar charger that I came across on CNET’s crave would have come in handy. [...]
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Posted on May 10th, 2008 by admin
Would you like some quick scrambled eggs for breakfast in 10 seconds or less? How about reducing your hot water bill? Use a Fresnel lens. Have an old computer that you want to toss out? Not so fast, save the platters and magnets found within the hard drives for other uses. The super polished hard [...]
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Posted on May 6th, 2008 by admin
At first glance it looks like a weather balloon, no wait it’s a UFO. Actually this is Coolearth’s design to capture solar energy. It’s mirror focuses the sun’s beam onto photovoltaic cells to produce electricity. Think of it as magnify glass to intensify the light. The inflated bubble can help protect the mirror & cells [...]
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