Levante’s Origami-Style Solar Panels
Already funded on Kickstarter, this new power source is born from the passion of two lovers of outdoor life
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Via fastcompany.com
Solar Panels Disguised As Terracotta Tiles
Dyaqua is a family-owned Italian company that makes traditional-looking terracotta roof tiles that disguise solar photovoltaic cells. These solar panels, which the company named Invisible Solar, are almost indistinguishable from Italy’s historic …
Via bloomberg.com
Sending Solar Panels to Space to One Day Power Homes on Earth
The world’s largest solar technology company, Longi Green Energy Technology Co, is preparing to send its solar panels to space to test the feasibility of creating off-planet power stations that can fuel …
Via wsj.com
How Sheep Aid the Solar Energy Movement
Maintaining solar farms requires routinely cutting back grass and weeds so they don’t block sunlight from the panels. Lawn mowers can’t easily maneuver between the sprawling array of packed panels—which is where …
Via npr.org
In Colorado, a Community Solar Garden Pioneers Sustainable Foodways
Jack’s Solar Garden—a community farm that grows under 32,000 solar panels and sells 1.2 megawatts of power back to the local grid in Longmont, Colorado—began nearly 50 years ago as a hay-producing …
Via designboom.com
Heliogen’s Solar Farm Could Drastically Reduce Global Emissions
Backed by Bill Gates, clean energy company Heliogen has developed a concentrated solar energy source that could eliminate carbon-emitting industrial processes—essentially “transforming sunlight to create and replace fuels.” The advancement would allow …
Charged: Solar Impulse 2
Flying around the world without a drop of fuel (again) in the space-age aircraft is just the beginning
Charged: Solaire Generation
The New York firm transforms parking structures into solar power plants