Shortlisted as one of the entries for a competition in building a tourist attraction that will create a lasting legacy in the Olympic Park in London, The Cloud is a 400 fee-tall mesh tower. It is topped with solar powered plastic bubbles that are responsible for showing images and data like the weather information, the [...]
Posted in Architecture, Solar Energy
Electric vehicles are now getting widely used especially to countries who are working hard to save the environment and their people. Joining with them are numerous carmakers that do not stop in designing concept cars that will keep the environment clean and green. One of them is the German carmaker Volkswagen that recently design the [...]
Posted in Cars and Transportation, Solar Energy
Everybody knows that solar panels are one of the best sources of green energy. However, not all can afford it. Since the most wasted part of the house, researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have unveiled a new breed of flexible and moisture resistant solar panels that will work out as an energy generating roof [...]
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Eco racing cars are already starting to grow in number. More and more designers are already into this kind of vehicles. Joining the World Solar Challenge are the students from Cambridge University with their solar powered racing car called Bethany. It has a 6m2 worth of solar cells on the top of the car that [...]
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Biking can be the cleanest way of transportation. It does not consume any gas to power nor produces gas that causes air pollution. The only downside of using the bicycle as a means of transportation, you are not safe enough when the rain pours down. This is what the Swedish designer Torkel Dohmers is considering [...]
Posted in Bike, Solar Energy
