Open Source Ecology, an organization that promotes free and open source technology throughout the farming world, has successfully crowd sourced the prototype for their solar concentrator, a device that can absorb sunlight and turn water into steam to produce electricity. In particular, it is the French branch of Open Source Ecology (OSE) that has developed the […]
At long last, the FBI has released its document cache of files containing information on Nikola Tesla, including his inventions like death ray and ball lightning, as well as how the government obtained his notes and memos following his death. Tesla, an inventor and innovator considered at least decades ahead of his time, predicted and […]
A new fabric with both solar and kinetic energy power generation capabilities may soon give your watch, cell phone, or laptop the juice it needs to operate. Pioneering piezoelectric sidewalks, and solar powered roads are awesome, but until now researchers haven’t figured out how to power our mobile devices with electricity that wasn’t gained from […]
GE Global Research is testing a desk-size turbine that could power a small town of about 10,000 homes. As technology advances, devices of all kind tend to get smaller. The desk-size turbine invented by GE Global Research is no exception. According to MIT Technology Review, the turbine is capable of powering a small town of about […]
Australian solar power experts making up the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium have developed and begun to market solar cells that are created with a 3D printer. The group, consisting of scientists from the CSIRO, the University of Melbourne and Monash University have been working on the technology for over seven years and have figured […]
Last week Tesla purchased SolarCity for $2.6 billion, today Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO announced that they will be manufacturing and installing Solar Roofs! This is huge news, especially coming after the purchase of SolarCity barely more than a week ago. Musk said about the new solar roofs “It’s not a thing on the roof, it […]
Indian startup Avant Garde Innovations has developed a low-cost wind turbine that can generate 3-5 kW hours of electricity daily… Soon after assuming office, Kerala (southern state of India) Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan kicked up a storm by publicly supporting the Athirappilly hydro electric project, which environmentalists said, if implemented, would create ecologic imbalance in the area […]
Inspiration came to Rolf Disch in the early 1990’s, as local German government wanted to build a nuclear power plant near his home-town of Freiburg. Disch and fellow activists fought hard to make sure the nuclear plant was not built and as an alternative, Disch constructed the Heliotrope, a spinning, multi-storied example of what a […]
The same design and engineer firm that created the Sydney Opera House has completed the world’s first algae-powered building, actually surrounding the building with tanks of water and algae to gather sunlight. The energy gathered here powers the entire building. It’s called the Bio Intelligent Quotient (BIQ) building and is part of Germany’s push to […]
Mark Z. Jacobson’s new digs is the perfect home for the prominent renewable energy advocate. The Stanford professor’s Solutions Project famously lays out roadmaps for 139 countries, including the world’s major greenhouse gas emitters, to switch to 100 percent clean, renewable energy generated from wind, water and sunlight for all purposes by 2050. He made an appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman in 2013 […]