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Barack Obama is set to open the US’s largest solar power plant on Tuesday this week (27th October 2009), with a capacity of 25MW.
It has taken nearly a year to build the plant [...]

Dell has just finished installing solar panels in the car park of its HQ in Round Rock, Texas. Known as a solar grove, they have worked with Envision Solar to produce this renewable energy source.
It will be expanded into a parked plug in for electric cars at some point soon.
They apparently can produce 131,000KWh a [...]

There have been reports in teh media lately of solar panels being stolen from people’s rooftops or gardens, and then ending up as cheap sales on ebay or other online auctions sites.
A winerey in California is has lost $1000s in the last year and have been hit by theives 16 times according to this report.

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I spoke a few weeks ago about the upcoming Solar Decathlon that was takeing place in October (2009) and we now have a winner.
German Uni students have got themselves a second consecutive win in this international competition.  20 teams were involved in the event which asks the teams to build a livable home that operates [...]

DSCC (dye-sensitized solar cells) which are created by G24 Innovations has been commercialised for the first time in the shape of a solar panel in a ruck sack.
Less than 1mm thick these solar panels are eco-friendly as they don’t contain solicon or cadmium.  They are ideal for outdoor types and could be incorporated into tents [...]

LG have launched their new Pop in the UK. The Pop is an ecofriendly touch screen mobile. It has a solar panel embedded in the cover of the battery which uses the sun’s energy to charge the phone’s battery.
The really cool thing is that just 10 minutes of sunshine will give you 2 minutes of [...]

LG has developed a solar panel compatible for e-book readers. These devices already have a long lasting battery solution, but when they do run out of juice, it can be incredibly frustrating as it will always happen at the worst possible moment!
The solar panel will allow the unit to be charged on the go as [...]

A car on a test run for the Global Green Challenge (Darwin to Adelaide – Oct 24th 2009), was zooming down the motorway in Australia at the weekend. Reaching a speed of 110km/h (about 66mph), the car uses less power than the average toaster!
The car is called IVy and isn’t really suitable for driving on [...]

Sanyo’s recharable battery range – Eneloop took a big step forward recently.  The batteries, which can hold a residual charge of upto 75% for a year (ie do nothing with them after a charge, and they still have 75% of their power), are now being pre-charged through solar power in the Sanyo factories.
These great batteries [...]

Hi guys,
Came across this very unusual necklace today – why am I writing about jewellery? well this particular piece is solar powered!
Mae Yokoyama has created this piece that charges up through the day and illuminates a string of pearls at night. Interesting concept don’t you think? It doesn’t look greatly comfortable, but then I suppose [...]