From the monthly archives: September 2008
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 for people who buy plug-in electric vehicles. (That should make General Motors (GM) happy as it prepares [...]
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 cool concepts for products that utilize solar power and other alternate energy sources.
The Chevrolet Volt is a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle to be produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors and expected to be launched in November 2010 as a 2011 model.
Its price is estimated to be near $40,000,[4] which would give a net price of about $32,500 after the $7,500 US Federal tax credit.
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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 [...]
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 perÂformance, and high specific [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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). [...]
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