Renewable Energy
World’s largest photovoltaic plant is in Canada
If you had to guess where the world largest photovoltaic plant is placed probably you would say Spain, the south west of US, Australia or maybe Middle East or the north of Africa. But, guess what? It is placed in [...]
Next U.S. sport matches will be against climate change
Collective sport is a competition between two teams. But what if in America’s next matches were also a third player to beat? This third team is climate change, and it is a really hard player. For this reason major League [...]
Australia unveils the first hybrid solar power plant in the world
Located at Marble Bar, in the eastern Pilbara region of Western Australia, Horizon Power’s Pippunyah Solar Diesel Power Station has been set in motion officially. (Pippunyah being the name of the river that runs under the power station). The 1350 [...]
Pumped Hydro: a new way for an island to be green
Among the different ways to store energy, pumped hydro probably it is not the most known, but it is real and in use around the world. Basically pumped hydro works as a good complement of wind and solar energy, allowing [...]
Zephyr, an unmanned solar-powered plane
We have already told you about the Solar Impulse, the first solar plane able to flight at night. Now we want to introduce you an even more amazing project: an unmanned solar-powered plane. It is called Zephyr: a super-lightweight, carbon-fiber [...]
A boat made of plastic bottles crosses the Pacific in a 8,000 miles journey
Think twice when you are about to recycle (we can’t think of throwing it away at all) your plastic bottle. If you gather 12,500 you can reuse them building up your own boat and then travel around the world on [...]
Power your camera with the new solar strap
Imagine you are about to get the top of a 3,000 meters mountain height. The sunset is amazing and the potential shot is the one you were expecting for long time. And suddenly the batteries from your camera run out! [...]
Solar Impulse: 26 hour solar powered flight success
André Borschberg, engineer and graduate in management science, is an ambitious man who has been fascinated by aviation from an early age. Bertrand Piccard, psychiatrist and aeronaut, is a challenges lover who made the first non-stop round-the-world balloon flight. The [...]
And the winner of the 2010 European Solar decathlon is…
Virginia Tech for the Lumenhaus! Among the 17 great solar-powered prefab homes that were participating in the contest, showing that completely self-sustaining shelters can easily become a reality, the American project was the winner. The 17 houses were probed, prodded, [...]
Harvesting energy from the Sahara Desert
Apparently Europe will start importing for the first time solar energy from the Sahara Desert within the next five years. The European Union is backing projects to harvest the plentiful sunlight that reaches the desert at a daily basis and [...]
Nano House: A green solution to crowded homes
We are faced nowadays with numerous ecological challenges, recycling, renewable energy, sustainable architecture, to name a few, but another issue that must not be forgotten is the lack of space. Many of our cities are stacked with buildings and people, [...]
One of the competing houses in Solar Decathlon 2010
Not long ago, I told you about a design competition called “Solar Decathlon”. Last year, a team of German students won by presenting a house covered in solar panels. Now I’ll look at a Chinese group of students, and their [...]
