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5 Big Industries Battery Storage Tech and Solar Power Could Change Forever 27 Aug 2013 | 12:08 pm
Tweet by Bill Roberson After all the hoopla around Elon Musk’s Hyperloop plans last week and his general enthusiasm for all things battery and solar powered, I got to thinking more about some blue-s...
These Giant Singing Flowers are also Creating Solar Power 26 Aug 2013 | 12:13 pm
Tweet In Seattle, artist Dan Corson has partnered with the city to create this installation of solar panels that look like giant flowers, right out of a Dr. Seuss book. The project is called Sonic Blo...
Should My Solar Panels Be Spinning? 25 Aug 2013 | 12:13 pm
Tweet Solar power holds the promise of cheap sustainable electric power with no moving parts, but the cheap part is still only a promise. Now a solar company is testing a new approach to solar power t...
How Utilities can Adapt when Big-Box Retailers Go Solar 24 Aug 2013 | 12:17 pm
Tweet The electric utility industry faces the risk of declining revenues as more customers install solar panels on their homes and businesses. Solar power currently supplies 2 percent of the country’s...
Agri-Cube Turns A Parking Spot Into A Vegetable Factory 23 Aug 2013 | 12:08 pm
Tweet Here’s the thing about cities: they’re awesome in many ways, but in other ways they suck. For instance, lots of people living close together usually means access to decent public transportation ...
Largest Solar Rooftop In Europe Complete, In Germany! 22 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
Tweet (via Clean Technica) The largest self-consumption rooftop solar array in Europe has been completed, and it is of course located in Germany. It is eleven hectares in size, consists of 33,000 sola...
Smart Cars Take the Scenic Route : Benz’s Smart Glass + Highways that Charge 21 Aug 2013 | 12:08 pm
Tweet In this week’s SmartCar edition, we’ll be featuring a luxury car amped up with magic glass, smarter highways and parking lots, and ways developers are coping up with the huge wave of smarter car...
Kroger Converts Food Waste into Renewable Energy 20 Aug 2013 | 12:08 pm
Tweet When a company produces 150 tons of food waste every day that is either a huge problem or a great opportunity to innovate and produce energy. Kroger’s food divisions, Ralphs and Food 4 Less, opt...
Flexible Grid, Renewable Energy Offer Hope for Future 19 Aug 2013 | 12:09 pm
Tweet Aug. 14, 2003, was a dark day in U.S. history — in a lot of different ways. It started off as a quiet Thursday. Then a single tree limb in Ohio came crashing down, touching off a power outage wh...
GE Uses Supercomputer to Model More Efficient Wind Turbines 18 Aug 2013 | 07:21 pm
Tweet Wind is among the most efficient renewable energy sources. Still, there’s always room for improvement, and researchers are always trying to increase the power output of wind turbines. Now, resea...
