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November 15

Solar Powered Home Brew


Hey guys,
Just read a great article over here about using the energy of the sun to power home brewing.  You can now make totally green beer – cool:) – well as long as it isn’t actually green!!
A guy named Joseph Blair from Princeton University has created the world’s first solar powered home brew kit – [...]

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October 19

Protect your solar panels from theft


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.

Use [...]

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September 22

New Solar Roof Tile


Hi guys,
Just found an interesting bit of news about a new product release from SRS Energy. The Sole Power Tile is a solar panel type tile, but one that looks like a normal barrel style roof tile, rather than a solar panel.
They are lightweight polymer and can generate 500 watts per 100 square feet and [...]

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September 18

Podcast Feed


My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-ed37352a628c19c410549481db2d69ae}

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September 12

Google in the mirror


Google, in its quest to become more efficient and ultimately Greener, is looking into ways of reducing the cost of solar power by using unique materials to develop mirrors that are used in the solar thermal technology.  This is the technology that basically reflects the suns heat to boil water to create steam and then [...]

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September 11

Solar Panels Made From Human Hair


Milan Karki, a teenager from Nepal has invented a solar panel that uses human hair as the conductor in the workings of the solar panels instead of the usual (and much more expensive) silicon.
He is now trying to see if the production can be made into a commercially viable one. At the moment, the panel [...]

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