Solar Power News and Info
No, it won’t bring back the dead to the land of the living but will provide the already living with access to cheap solar energy. Santa Coloma de Gramenet is a blue-collar town located outside bustling Barcelona. It is not notable in any sense of the world, but today it has provided an example of [...]
You’ve heard about the solar revolution and the dreams to one day have a world powered entirely by solar energy. So what exactly is solar power and how does it work?
Solar is derived from the word ‘Sol’ which is Latin for Sun. Therefore solar power or solar energy is simply a system of collecting the [...]
There is a lot of talk about solar energy and its potential for changing power-generation. Increasingly, alternative solutions are being promoted, as fossil fuel prices fluctuate and global supplies come under intense scrutiny. But what exactly is involved in solar power?
Let’s start at the source of this energy, the sun itself. As a star, the [...]
The solar equivalent of the ‘Cannonball Run’? If you catch some bizarre machines running across the length of the Australian outback you just might think so. But the World Solar Challenge is anything but a comical entr’acte. It is the performance of a lifetime for a bunch of intrepid enthusiasts who take on the elements [...]
In 2007, Louis Palmer set off from his home in Lucerne in his solar taxi with one goal in mind: to be the first person ever to travel round the world in a vehicle driven by solar power. A dream in the making since he was a fourteen year old boy, he is currently living [...]
The ‘Prius’ is Latin for ‘(to go…) before’. Quite fittingly it heralds a new era of hip cars which have moved away from Henry Ford’s vision. Today, they are petrol powered environmental ogres. Necessary ‘evils’, for cars have been the harbingers of human advancement by taking the wheel much forward. They may be Hollywood’s latest [...]
The car companies are taking their sweet time to come up with alternative fuel vehicles that are affordable for the general public. We’ve covered this previously - DIY - Convert Your car to use Hydrogen Today, and now we bring you the story of Art Haines, who has taken it upon himself with his [...]
Who doesn’t like a bit of sun in their lives…and gradually we are getting it into our homes too. All thanks to solar power. From the beginning of time itself the sun has been one of the reasons for life itself. A plant synthesizes for itself using solar energy. And in a roundabout way we [...]
A table top on two wheels still isn’t a common sight on roads around the world. But if you ever catch one, be sure that it must be a solar car. The prototypes mostly took the form of flat solar collectors on four wheels with the driver just managing to squeeze himself in. As in [...]
Solar panels are just one of many alternative energy sources being used to help lower the world’s dependency on petroleum products, even through incorporation into everyday products and automobiles. But solar panels can have a dark side, with an exorbinate amount of energy used to manufacture them as well as the chemical used to create [...]