Solar In the Home-It’s Approaching MainstreamSolar Night Industries featured in Yahoo Real Estate Story (January 2008): Solar in the Home-It’s Approaching Mainstream
Green Up Your Act: Part 37 More Tips to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint 1. Reduce–Buy less things, download music instead of buying the CD, choose products with less packaging, grow your own food, buy […]
Toward Better Solar Cells: Chemists Gain Control Of Light-harvesting PathsChemists have pioneered a method to tease out promising molecular structures for capturing energy, a step that could speed the development of more efficient, cheaper solar cells.
Press Release from Solar Night Industries1.4.2008-Solar Night Industries (PINKSHEETS: SLND), a renewable energy company formed to accelerate the adoption of […]
UPS Offers Stamp of Approval for Its Greenest CustomersThe United Parcel Service (UPS) has become the first carrier to provide a sustainability evaluation program for its customer’s transport packaging, along with a logo to be displayed on those that meet program criteria.UPS’s Package Engineering Group, known for its expertise in transport packaging materials, conducts the […]
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Larger Number of EU Nations Have CO2 Vehicle Tax, Promote Electric CarsMore European nations are levying carbon taxes on passenger vehicles and providing tax incentives for electric vehicles, according to a new report by the […]
Stretchable electronics device holds promise for treating irregular heart rhythmsThe electronics can bend, stretch and twist. Now the flexible and stretchable electronics can map waves of electrical activity in the heart with better resolution and speed than that of conventional cardiac monitoring technology. Researchers from three institutions are the first to demonstrate a flexible silicon […]
Research may lead to better UV/radiation blocking in eye glassesAdding cerium oxide to phosphate glass rather than the commonly used silicate glass may make glasses that block ultraviolet light and have increased radiation damage resistance while remaining colorless, according to researchers. These cerium-containing phosphate glasses have many commercial applications for use in windows, sunglasses and […]
TAKE ACTION !!!!!If you’ll take the time right now to think back to the good old days of August, to a time of sun filled days at the park, to a time when street lights didn’t pop on until 8pm, to a time when both the House and the Senate passed landmark energy bills. Bills […]
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Cotton is the fabric of your lights, your MP3 player, your cell phoneConsider this T-shirt: It can monitor your heart rate and breathing, analyze your sweat […]
Solar Cell Efficiency Increased By Incorporating Ionic SaltsScientists in Spain are working on optimizing a type of photovoltaic cell (Grätzel cell) that artificially mimics photosynthesis. Grätzel cells are photovoltaic devices that take advantage of the interaction of a structured semiconductor less than a nanometer in size and an organic dye that acts as a solar […]
President Obama’s Energy Speech at MITPresident Barack Obama has been a courageous supporter of clean energy. He spoke October 23, 2009, to an audience of 750 at the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA. Here are our Founding Editor’s take-aways from the speech, plus a link to the video and full transcript.
How electricity moves through cells: […]