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Efficient Solar chargers availables
Published on 26 Nov, 2008 at 6:44 in solar energy | Viewed 680 views times | 1 Comment
When on the road the battery of your phone, mp3 player, or your Iphone goes soon flat. But, you know that there are solutions. Just 1 hour of sunshine = 20 minutes talk time or 50 minutes of MP3 music. Works with multiple gadgets, including mobile phones, iPhone™, Bluetooth® headsets, smartphones/PDAs, MP3 players, portable gaming
Morgan Solar in the press
Published on 11 Nov, 2008 at 5:52 in solar energy | Viewed 270 views times | No Comments
Morgan Solar – a company developping more affordable solar panels, has hot a great article in the Star newspaper. Their solar panels are using revolutionary technology with lower cost materials (acrylic). Their Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) systems are highly efficient, easy to build and affordable. Some of their photos on Flick page. The materials that make
Efficient solar power from Australian, Chinese and Silicon Walley
Published on 5 Nov, 2008 at 13:14 in solar energy | Viewed 770 views times | 1 Comment
Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU), Tianjin University in China and Chromasun, a Silicon Valley company joined themselvs to make solar energy cheaper and more efficient. They found a hybrid solar system that uses 80 meters long 2-axis sollector with 80 mirrors. Those mirrors are focusing sunlignt onto high-efficient solar cells mounted on receivers
Solar Concentrated – new photos from Morgansolar
Published on 28 Oct, 2008 at 5:21 in solar energy | Viewed 561 views times | No Comments
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 to the edge of the cell where there is a PV receiver to convert the
23% of efficiency
Published on 27 Oct, 2008 at 12:27 in solar energy | Viewed 301 views times | No Comments
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) by the photovoltaic modules and then into AC by the inverter under actual field
Kyocera solar pannels are good value
Published on 23 Oct, 2008 at 5:51 in solar energy | Viewed 275 views times | No Comments
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 produce a surface texture that minimizes surface reflectance and maximizes output. The Kyocera 190-watt solar
Round CIGS are more efficient and cheaper
Published on 14 Oct, 2008 at 17:01 in solar energy, Solar-thin-film | Viewed 744 views times | No Comments
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 based on silicon cells. But they are more and more popular, quite a few
Konaraka is industrializing their production of flexible solar cells
Published on 11 Oct, 2008 at 6:02 in solar energy, Solar-thin-film | Viewed 500 views times | No Comments
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 awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2000. The ground-breaking discoveries from both founding scientists
How to cut your electricity bill with solar power generator
Published on 2 Oct, 2008 at 13:01 in solar energy, wind power | Viewed 2,120 views times | 1 Comment
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. While the panels generate solar power, the moving blades generate wind energy. One never
CD player and loudspeaker which charges with Solar power
Published on 29 Sep, 2008 at 17:25 in solar energy | Viewed 407 views times | No Comments
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.
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