Pocket-Size Folding Solar Charger Maximizes Surface Area
AmbienTec has revealed a new set of solar power chargers with folding designs that the maximize the surface area of pocket-sized units. The AmbienTec SolarFold and SolarFan solar power chargers can produce 3 minutes of talk time for every 10 minutes of charge.The AmbienTec SolarFold and SolarFan solar power chargers use “spherical solar technology” which embeds thousands of tiny photovoltaic spheres into these units. They’re more durable than silicon, allowing these units to bend in your pocket or backpack without breaking. Additionally, they’re quite thin, taking up very little storage space when ...
Pollution-Free Yacht Powered By Solar Power Unveiled
The world's largest pollution-free yacht, the PlanetSolar, was unveiled Thursday at the HDW Shipyard in Germany.Designed by a team of international engineers, PlanetSolar is a multihull white catamaran topped by about 5,300 square feet of black photovoltaic solar panels consisting of some 38,000 of SunPower's next-generation cells. Each of the cells offers an efficiency of at least 22 percent--the highest-efficiency solar cells commercially available. The boat is expected to be both silent and clean.The boat is slated to be ready for testing in late March and will be ready for its ...
University Of Michigan Creates 9 Cubic Millimeter Solar Power System
Advances in solar power aren't always the most immediately exciting sort of developments (a more efficient solar panel still looks like a solar panel), but this new solar power system developed at the University of Michigan certainly won't have any trouble turning a few heads. Not only is it 1,000 times smaller than any comparable commercial counterpart (just 9 cubic millimeters), but its processor, solar cells, and battery are all self-contained, and the researchers say it would be be able to operate "nearly perpetually" if not for the battery eventually giving out ...
DOE Announces $100M To Be Made Available In Recovery Act
At the inaugural ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit today, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $100 million in Recovery Act funding will be made available to accelerate innovation in green technology, increase America’s competitiveness and create new jobs. Today’s announcement comes as some of the nation’s top energy leaders and members of the scientific research community have gathered to ensure U.S. leadership in clean energy technologies.Today’s announcement, the ARPA-E’s third round of funding opportunity, is focused specifically on three technology areas:The three areas of focus included in today’s funding opportunity are:Grid-Scale Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable ...
Solar Power For U.S. Soldiers
The scene is a familiar one from the nightly news: a U.S. soldier on patrol in a remote locale, outfitted in the latest high-tech gadgetry – radios, night vision goggles, navigation gear – devices that enhance mission capabilities and help keep the infantry safe.While such electronic wizardry has become indispensible to the modern military, it also requires an ever growing amount of power to keep it all running.That has usually meant more and more batteries. At some point, however, lugging around heavy batteries becomes a logistical nightmare, and ultimately, it’s self defeating, ...
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Pocket-Size Folding Solar Charger Maximizes Surface AreaAmbienTec has revealed a new set of solar power chargers with folding designs that the maximize the surface area of pocket-sized units. The AmbienTec SolarFold and SolarFan solar power chargers can produce 3 minutes of talk time for every 10 minutes of charge.The AmbienTec SolarFold and SolarFan solar power chargers use “spherical solar technology”... More of this Solar Article
Pollution-Free Yacht Powered By Solar Power UnveiledThe world’s largest pollution-free yacht, the PlanetSolar, was unveiled Thursday at the HDW Shipyard in Germany. Designed by a team of international engineers, PlanetSolar is a multihull white catamaran topped by about 5,300 square feet of black photovoltaic solar panels consisting of some 38,000 of SunPower’s next-generation cells.... More of this Solar Article
University Of Michigan Creates 9 Cubic Millimeter Solar Power SystemAdvances in solar power aren’t always the most immediately exciting sort of developments (a more efficient solar panel still looks like a solar panel), but this new solar power system developed at the University of Michigan certainly won’t have any trouble turning a few heads. Not only is it 1,000 times smaller than any comparable commercial... More of this Solar Article
DOE Announces $100M To Be Made Available In Recovery ActAt the inaugural ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit today, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $100 million in Recovery Act funding will be made available to accelerate innovation in green technology, increase America’s competitiveness and create new jobs. Today’s announcement comes as some of the nation’s top energy leaders and members... More of this Solar Article
Solar Power For U.S. SoldiersThe scene is a familiar one from the nightly news: a U.S. soldier on patrol in a remote locale, outfitted in the latest high-tech gadgetry – radios, night vision goggles, navigation gear – devices that enhance mission capabilities and help keep the infantry safe. While such electronic wizardry has become indispensible to the modern military,... More of this Solar Article
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