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Sep 10

Bio Robots, Solar-powered Refrigerators Contribute to Green

The green revolution has advanced several areas of the automotive, power, and appliance industries. Two refrigerators in the appliance category could change the face of the green industry in the kitchen.

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The green revolution has advanced several areas of the automotive, power, and appliance industries. Two refrigerators in the appliance category could change the face of the green industry in the kitchen. One is a futuristic concept called the Bio Robot Refrigerator, which would use gel to preserve food, and the other, a complete product, is a solar-powered refrigerator that stores vaccines in developing countries. The Bio Robot Refrigerator is an idea in its earliest stages by Electrolux’s Design Lab competition semifinalist Yuriy Dmitriev, and is supposed to be a zero-energy refrigerator that uses a gel-like substance that is odor-free to preserve and cool food. It is four times smaller than a traditional refrigerator, but possesses maximized storage space and the absence of doors, which “allows horizontal or vertical placement and displays food in plain…

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Jul 10

P2 FRESNEL LENS PARABOLIC MIRROR APERTURE SOLAR FRESNEL POWER CPV

This is Part 2. Solar Training, Understanding optics of Parabolic Mirrors and Fresnel Lenses. Cheap Telescope astronomy. Telescope first surface mirror. PART 1 IS HERE: www.youtube.com

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Jul 10

Tiny Linux PC uses just 18 watts of power, can be solar powered

Check out this Tiny Linux PC which can be solar powered.

…Check out the Aleutia E1 mini Linux PC.

This mini PC uses just 8 watts of power which is a quarter of the power used by the average laptop computer.

It comes in a tough aluminium case and has no moving parts, it is also completely silent, and comes with everything you need including office compatible software, it runs Puppy Linux.

You can also add on an optional solar panel to power the device and an optional 10.4 inch LCD screen which uses just 10 watts of power.

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Here’s the specs for the people that asked.

Processor: 200MHz x86 CPU, Memory: 128MB SDRAM, Storage: 2GB (included Compact Flash card), Power Supply (US, UK, or EU).
3 x USB 2.0 ports (12Mbps transfer rate), 1 x 10/100 Ethernet port, VGA port to connect LCD display (supports resolutions up to…

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Jun 10

Solar-Powered Sun Bricks

The Solar-Powered Sun Bricks use solar panels to charge during the day, when the night comes they turn on automatically a LED array to make the place they are put an easier to follow path even in complete darkness.

…The Solar-Powered Sun Bricks use solar panels to charge during the day, when the night comes they turn on automatically a LED array to make the place they are put an easier to follow path even in complete darkness.
The best of all is that there are no external power requirements or wires whatsoever, you can’t find a simpler or more inexpensive way to illuminate dark walkways around your home or in your garden. Just replace a few of the standard bricks or pavers with those completely self-contained Sun Bricks.

Flush-to-the-ground, integral solar panels generate up to 8 hours of light each night. So guests can follow a cheerfully illuminated path to your door. Amber LEDs provide a warm, welcoming glow, consume little power, and can’t burn out.
Sun Bricks come on automatically when darkness falls, and incur no operating costs. Just recess them in your walkway, and forget them!
The price for a pair of Sun Bricks is $59.95.
- If you are interested in the Solar-Powered Sun Bricks

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Mar 10

E-waste looms behind solar power boom

Solar is a renewable source of energy and solar panels don’t pollute when they are generating electricity. But the upstream process of making solar panels involves a number of toxic chemicals.

…) and this material is quite expensive and VERY difficult to make from silicon scrap.Also, not all photovoltaics are silicon-based. There are a CIGS cells (copper-indium-gallium-selenium), which will be next to impossible to recycle. And one of the commercially available systems is cadmium-based, which is very toxic. Like this Reply to this comment by Penguinisto January 14, 2009 4:26 PM PST Actually, if the PV cells are made right, the cell coating comes right off after a short chemical bath and a cleaning. Most PV manufacturers do it right there in the plant if/when they find a defective cell during QA testing. (disclosure - I work in and around the PV industry). Now granted, this has yet to be tested with older cells and not on any large scale, but it is certainly possible, and even cost-effective for polysilicon providers when supplies are tight (as they are now).You are correct in that not all PV cells are silicon-based, but silicon is the most common type made these days (be it poly- or…

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Feb 10

Solar-powered Backpack Charges Your Gadgets on the Go

Tumi’s solar-powered backpack has a built in solar panel that lets you recharge your gadgets when your far away from an electrical outlet. The price is a little steep, but the full proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders.

…We’ve shown some love for Tumi backpacks in the past, so it’s no surprise we’d fall head over heels for their new limited edition backpack which charges your gadgets via its built-in solar panel. Designed by famed Brit sculptor Anish Kapoor, the bag has a removable solar panel, padded laptop sleeve, and a water-repellent exterior. It’ll set you back $695 bucks, but the full proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders. Click on for some foxy backpack pics. Louis Ramirez
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Jan 10

World’s Most Efficient Solar Dish?

A team led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology students last week successfully tested a prototype of what it says may be the “most cost-efficient solar-power system in the world,” revolutionizing global energy production.

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The 12-foot-wide dish, made of a lightweight frame of thin aluminum tubing and mirror strips, concentrates sunlight by a factor of 1,000, according to the Cambridge, Mass., university. It can create heat intense enough to melt a bar of steel.

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Jan 10

100% Solar Power charging for iPhones & iPod Touch

It looks like Apple gadget users will have a new way to charge up iPods and iPhone devices with the sun, thanks to the latest from NovoThink. The company has released the Solar Surge, a skin with an integrated solar cell capable of charging the Apple devices on 100% solar power.

…It also comes with a Solar Planner application that helps you assess what your solar needs are to fully charge up your gadget, so you eliminate the guessing for how many hours of daylight you need to get full bars.

One more handy way to get your gadgets off grid - or at least it will be. It isn’t quite on the market yet. But at the end of this month, you’ll be able to pick it up for $70. A little pricey, yes, but not too bad for a solar charger made specifically to fit and protect as well as power your device. Though you could always hack your own solar charger…

Thank you tipster April.

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