October, 2008

Solar Concentrated – new photos from Morgansolar

Solar Concentrated - new photos from Morgansolar

MorganSolar published yesterday on their blog new photos showing their new hot technology called LSO ( Light-guide Solar Optic ). I already wrote an article about this amazing revolutionary technology here. Basically what is does, it concentrates the solar energy... (Continue reading)

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23% of efficiency

23% of efficiency

Abengoa Solar in Seville had installed a solar panels of Concentrix Solar. Those panels are 23 % efficient. The 23% or better AC efficiency reflects the actual electricity fed into the grid after sunlight is first converted into DC (Direct Current)... (Continue reading)

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Kyocera solar pannels are good value

Kyocera solar pannels are good value

The Kyocera KC190GT is a very good solar panel for the price and works well in everything from small-scale residential solar power systems to mid-scale commercial projects. Kyocera uses newly developed treatment method processes multi-crystalline silicon cells in order to... (Continue reading)

New electric car from TATA is called Indica

New electric car from TATA is called Indica

Tata’s new Electric Car is called Indica. This EV is scheduled to be launched in Norway in 2009 and India in 2010. You can drive the car on the highway, the car is a four-seater, with enough room for luggage and... (Continue reading)

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Round CIGS are more efficient and cheaper

Round CIGS are more efficient and cheaper

Company called Solyndra has invented circular photovoltaic panels. They are seems to be more efficient than traditional solar PV panels and they are easier and cheeper to install too. We know that usually CIGS are not as efficient as photovoltaic systems... (Continue reading)

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MDI prepares new Air cars for spring 2009

MDI prepares new Air cars for spring 2009

MDI is going to sell their air powered cars in the US at the beginning 2010 as I wrote in one of my artisles in the past. This time they came with slightly different concept. The urban city car of the... (Continue reading)

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Konaraka is industrializing their production of flexible solar cells

Konaraka is industrializing their production of flexible solar cells

Konarka’s advanced photovoltaic technology started with the work of the late Dr. Sukant Tripathy, an internationally known polymer materials scientist, provost at UMASS Lowell and founder of the Plastic Innovation Center and Dr. Alan Heeger, Konarka’s chief scientist, who was... (Continue reading)

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Chevrolet Volt at Paris Motor show pictures

Chevrolet Volt at Paris Motor show pictures

I bring in some pictures from Paris Motor Show. The Chevrolet Volt – Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle – is exposed there. The Volt is an electric vehicle that recharges its lithium ion batteries from an AC outlet or an onboard gas... (Continue reading)

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How to cut your electricity bill with solar power generator

How to cut your electricity bill with solar power generator

There is a lot of ECO gadgets around these days. One of them is this little solar power generator. This device generates both: solar and wind energy, as it uses a collection of six photovoltaic panels, crafted as a vertical turbine.... (Continue reading)

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