The Renewable Energy Investment Tax Credit (ITC for short) has passed and as well, it’s been renewed until 2016. Also, they increased the caps on how much you can claim for the credit.
$2,500-$7,500 tax credit [...]
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Renewable Energy Investment Tax Credit
CD player and loudspeaker which charges with Solar power
The Sunflower - pictured below - is a cd player and loudspeaker system that charges via sunlight. It’s a cool-looking way to have a renewably powered party on your patio.
Ricardo Baiáo is inventing some very [...]
Videos of Chevy Volt
Some videos of Chevrolet Volt. Enjoy
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3D solar cells will revolutionize the future…
A Highly-Efficient 3-Dimensional Nanotube Solar Cell for Visible and UV Light,” William Yuan invented a novel solar panel that enables light absorption from visible to ultraviolet light. He designed carbon nanotubes to overcome the barriers of electron movement, doubling the light-electricity conversion efficiency. William also developed a model for solar towers and a computer program [...]
New technology of LiFePO4 batteries for PHEV and EV will win the battle
LiFePO4 was identified as a cathode material for rechargeable lithium batteries by John Goodenough’s research group at the University of Texas in 1997. Because of its low cost, non-toxicity, the high abundance of iron, its excellent thermal stability, safety characteristics, good electrochemical performance, and high specific capacity (170 mA·h/g) it has gained some acceptance.
In electric [...]
Best quality solar chargers for phone
Here is some cool stuff. I already writed about How to use Solar Charger to charge your IPhone to last longer or Devotec Solar Charger. This time I’m gonna present you another type of solar charger, which looks like a cellular phone… Fantastic..
Ever need to charge you Mobile and not a plug socket insight? On [...]
Solar panels with performance between 24 and 28% efficiency
I have already talked about Morgan Solar and their Simba Panels. They updated their website and put some new photos of the panels.
It seems that those panels seems to be more efficient then traditional solar panels, because their performance is between 24 and 28% of efficiency. Which is very good.
Some of the advantages of the [...]
Signet Solar will start production of thin-film solar panels by the end of this month.
Signet Solar expects to begin commercial production of thin-film solar panels by the end of this month, a company executive told Greentch Media this week.
Signet plans to begin shipping its films to commercial customers this month and to ramp up its production to full capacity in the next two months,
Signet Solar fabricated the industry’s first [...]
SunRun Solar Service is a better investment than buying your own solar system.
SunRun Solar Service is a better investment than buying your own solar system. That’s what claims this solar company. Let’s have a look what is it. It seems that when you buy the solar system through SunRun it produces higher than a 20% annual return, which means SunRun is likely to outperform other investment opportunities.
You [...]
Revolutionary technology of Concentrated solar panels
Morgan Solar - a company which might have the key for the brigh future. For of us, small users of solar panels. They expecting to divide the costs of fabrication by 4 !!! That’s simply amazing. The magic is the Light-guide Solar Optic (LSO). It’s made of acrylic that concentrates sunlight 750 times and redirects [...]
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