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Solar Cars Come of Age

By AlexPosted on July 15, 2015July 15, 2015Cat Solar and EnvironmentalismLeave a comment
The Stella Lux is not a brand new design. Eindhoven University entered previous models in the trabs Australia race previously. But this year they have produced an upgrgade that can drive for more than 600 miles without stopping for a recharge. I think this is astounding and HAS to be the end of so called… Read More »

The Future of Farming

By AlexPosted on May 14, 2015Cat Solar and EnvironmentalismLeave a comment
A superb solar powered greenhouse and desalination project in arid South Australia. Free energy from the sun is the easy bit of the climate change challenge - how we get water and food is the next and harder piece of the puzzle. This innovative farm seems to have put all the pieces together and farmers… Read More »

Oceans as Solar Panels

By AlexPosted on April 19, 2015April 19, 2015Cat renewable energyLeave a comment
It's been a long time since I have heard a peep about OTEC - Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion. How it works is simple, it uses the temperature difference between warm shallow water and the low temperatures in deep water. The limitation of this approach is that we go through a turbine run by steam so… Read More »

IKEA Now Make Flat Pack Homes

By AlexPosted on April 14, 2015Cat solar panels for homeLeave a comment
We all have some IKEA furniture but who knew that they having been developing flat pack homes to use in Refuge camps. What's more each tent has built in solar panels to help the kids do their homework and for the cook to see safely how work in an otherwise unlit camp Details here https://youtu.be/Ect-FwtK-84 Read More »

A Lawyer found her dream car…

By AlexPosted on March 26, 2015March 26, 2015Cat Solar and EnvironmentalismLeave a comment
Her dream car had been specially designed so that wheelchair disabled people could just wheel straight in and drive away. The problem was the company who had produced this game changing technology had no finance to bring the invention to market. They needed some help and the lawyer needed that car... https://youtu.be/qSkm_pupk_E Read More »

Power From Waves

By AlexPosted on March 24, 2015March 24, 2015Cat renewable energy1 Comment
I love the high tech in Solar but I really appreciate the simplicity of Wind turbines and Wave turbines. Here is a nice pilot project I came across being trialled just off the Scottish coast. North sea oil probably cost the Wave and Tidal power industries a couple of decades in delays. Now that we… Read More »

A Solar Powered Ship Sails into the Record Books

By AlexPosted on March 23, 2015Cat solar energy factsLeave a comment
Solar powered houses and cars scarcely merit attention nowadays but this Solar powered cruiser is making an attempt to cruise around the world fueled by its gigantic battery and huge solar array. https://youtu.be/lcbFWo00jM4 Read More »

The Dark Side of Green

By AlexPosted on March 22, 2015Cat renewable energyLeave a comment
Wind power got an early start on solar energy. The technology was simpler and the engineering was easy. So the turbines sprouted in hill fields and farms and then it got close to homes. That's where the trouble started and where this film comes in... https://youtu.be/JiCQabGuKFk Read More »

Germany’s Renewable Energy

By AlexPosted on March 17, 2015Cat solar energy factsLeave a comment
We hear so much about Solar Energy and Wind installations in the context of US or Chinese progress so I thought it would be interesting to feature this European perspective https://youtu.be/EvceQ0T80Zc Read More »

Portable Solar Just Raised its Game

By AlexPosted on February 7, 2015Cat solar energy factsLeave a comment
Follow the link for the Kickstarter campaign http://is.gd/h36Rel Read More »

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