Eco Design at The 2013 Consumer Electronics Show
The 2013 International CES show is the biggest trade show in the Americas and includes some of the newest eco-design and sustainable technologies. The show is organized by the Consumer Electronics...
View ArticleDid You Know? Smartphones Reduce Energy Usage
Smartphones are an increasingly ubiquitous aspect of modern life and research shows that they are decreasing the amount of energy used globally. This is the finding from Outlier, a research group that...
View ArticleFoxconn Goes Solar
Infamous Foxconn, best known for the deplorable working conditions for Chinese workers that make Apple’s iPod and other products, is intent on developing a strong presence in the solar industry. The...
View ArticleIn Focus: Green Gadgets for the Home
As the harsh reality of global warming continues to strike fear and suffering on a frighteningly consistent basis in the form of natural disasters, it’s about time we acknowledge our role as the most...
View ArticleLDK Solar Defaults on Convertible Notes
On the heels of Suntech’s bankruptcy last month, LDK Solar Company Ltd. (Xinyu City, China) failed to make full payments of $23.8 million-worth of 4.75% convertible notes due this year. LDK was able...
View ArticleIn Focus: DIY Consumption
There is a revolution underway that is transforming consumption. If the twentieth century was marked by hyper-consumption the twenty-first century will be marked by collaborative consumption. This new...
View ArticleCan Vivint be the Biggest U.S Solar Installer in 2013?
Following on the heels of the announcement that Vivint would be purchased by Blackstone for more than $2 billion, Vivint has said it plans to install solar on at least 10,000 homes in 2013. That’s...
View ArticleA123 Systems: Going to Zero?
There was so much enthusiasm when high-performance battery manufacturer A123 Systems (NASDAQ:AONE) came on the scene. The promise of an advanced battery manufacturing facility pumping out batteries for...
View ArticleFUTUREWATCH: What Comes After MEMS?
Over the last 50 years computing power has migrated from the mainframe, to the desktop, to the laptop, and now, with almost-equivalent computing capability, onto mobile devices, tablets, and smart...
View ArticleThe 6 Coolest Solar Laptop Chargers
Even after the advent of tablets and notebooks, laptops are still the best work companion. Lots of storage space and a high speed, powerful processor make laptops very user friendly. We would like to...
View ArticleNY Times: “Clean Car Boom” is Here
As we noted the other day, “this is a good time to be in the business of selling electric vehicles.” Why? Three main reasons:...The post NY Times: “Clean Car Boom” is Here appeared first on Solar Feeds.
View ArticleWeWi Telecommunications Announces “SOL” Solar Laptop
Laptop computers use just 50 to 75 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity annually, just one-third of what’s required by their desktop-bound cousins. But most of...The post WeWi Telecommunications...
View ArticleSpeeding Up Solar Permitting in California
I love it when good news builds and builds: Remember last week, when we wrote about efforts to take the paperwork out of solar...The post Speeding Up Solar Permitting in California appeared first on...
View ArticleSolar for New Homes: Gonna Be Huge
We said it before — specifically, last month — and now we’re saying it again: New homes in the future will be ever more...The post Solar for New Homes: Gonna Be Huge appeared first on Solar Feeds.
View ArticleBloomberg Reports Global Solar Surpasses Wind
Bloomberg New Energy Finance predicts that 33.8GW of new onshore wind farms, plus 1.7GW of offshore wind, will be added globally in The post Bloomberg Reports Global Solar Surpasses Wind appeared first...
View ArticleFlexible Supercapacitors: Graphene Breakthrough Achieved
A research group from the University of Texas at Austin led by Prof. Yu Guihua working in collaboration with a research team The post Flexible Supercapacitors: Graphene Breakthrough Achieved appeared...
View ArticlePrinting OLEDs and Solar Cells is Now A REALITY
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research (IAP), Germany, worked together with mechanical engineering company MBRAUN to develop a production The post Printing OLEDs and Solar...
View ArticleApple’s Arizona Plant: 100% Run on Renewables
Apple says its new manufacturing plant in Arizona will run completely on solar and geothermal from day 1. If so, this would be the first US manufacturing The post Apple’s Arizona Plant: 100% Run on...
View ArticleChina: Now The World’s Largest Solar Market
In October 2013 NPD Solarbuzz Inc. (Santa Clara, California, U.S.) published a new analysis which estimates that China represented 25% of the The post China: Now The World’s Largest Solar Market...
View ArticleGraphene Moves Into Solar Cells
Researchers believe that graphene, among its other applications in energy, could be used as a transparent electrode in photovoltaic cells, replacing a layer of indium tin oxide that is brittle and...
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