Are you someone who has been cursed with a black thumb? Or perhaps, like myself, you have a house full of cats who will devour any live vegetation within hours of its arrival in your home? Well, fear not, for now we can have flowers on our desks too!
Introducing the Happy Flower, a […]
US electricity producer, Xcel Energy, announced today their intention to acquire an additional 775 megawatts of capacity for its Colorado wind power network by 2007, which will help make it the nation’s largest user of wind power.
Xcel currently has 282 mW of wind juice either in-service or under construction within Colorado and today’s news represents […]
I’d just like to take a moment to wish all of my fine readers best wishes for the season in whatever flavor you celebrate it in.
I’m going to do my best to not turn my computer back on for a couple of days post-Santa, so it may be the middle of next week before I’m […]
I don’t know about you, but I think there’s something a little pathetic about this device.
It’s a basic universal remote control for your home entertainment system, but it features a small finger crank to provide wind-up power. 30 revolutions of the crank gives you a full charge which will last seven days.
Here’s where I […]
So you want a solar thermal system but you’ve got NIMBY neighbors who are terrified of having an environmentally responsible person next door to them? Here’s a cool new system from a company called Dawn Solar that hides the collectors under the roofing.
Dawn Solar utilizes specific metal, slate and cement roofing systems with their […]
It seems the US Congessional critters have proven once again just how out of touch they are with the rest of the world. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado is going to begin laying off as many as 100 of its scientists and researchers (11% of its staff) next month in […]
For those of us in the more northerly latitudes, winter not only brings temperatures too cold to grow plants outside but also fewer hours of daylight. The answer for many is to grow their plants, veggies, herbs and other edibles inside, but this can be a costly venture both for the equipment and the […]
A good day for the solar industry as Honda Motor Co. has announced plans to build a new plant on the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu where it will start mass-producing thin film solar cells. Production is expected to begin in 2007.
Honda is focussing on the thin film technology in an apparent end run […]
Here’s a cool application of solar technologies being used for poor rural and off the grid situations. The Kinkajou Solar Projector is just that, a projector, but this one uses super-bright white LED for illumination through microfilm materials. It can powered by energy stored from a solar panel. All providing a cheap […]
OMG…these are absolutely awesome…I want one!
This is the Magenn Power Air Rotor System, an innovative new floating wind turbine that is lighter-than-air because of the use of helium as a lifting method. The horizontal turbine design provides energy generation efficiency that’s superior to current conventional turbines, which also means lower cost. The juice […]
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