This solar concentrator, made from an ordinary fiberglass satellite dish is covered in about 5800 small mirror tiles. When properly aligned, it can generate a spot the size of a dime with an intensity of 5000 times normal daylight. This intensity…
Beautiful Videos of Ivanpah – World’s Largest Solar Power Plant
At 377 MW, Ivanpah is the world’s single largest solar power plant in the world, as of Aug 2015. This solar power plant does not have solar panels, but it works on solar thermal based power. Let me explain. While…
Rawmelon – Beautiful Orbs that Can Harvest Even Moonlight
Source: Gizmodo This perfectly spherical glass ball is the work of a German architect named André Broessel, who began working on it three years ago with the aim of making solar power more efficient and less expensive, a technology available to…
Cool Solar Powered Personal Boat
This solar powered boat from Hammacher is capable of ferrying up to 4 adults with a 700 Watt electric motor that moves it silently at 5mph. The motor is powered by four deep cycle batteries that are constantly recharged by…
$3700 Billion Will be Invested in Solar by 2040
Once upon a time, not too long ago, the solar energy industry was a small-scale sector with just a few charity and non-governmental organizations in the fray. Fast forward to 2015, it is suddenly a $100+ billion industry. And if…
India’s Cochin Airport to be 100% Powered by Solar
Recently, India’s Cochin International Airport became the first (in the world?) to be fully powered by solar. That is indeed cool, to know such a large place as an airport running 100% on solar power. A 12 MW ground mounted solar…
Who Said Solar Can’t be Sexy? Check out this Off-grid Ecocapsule!
A picture of the Ecocapsule that will be out in the market soon, released by Nice Architects At Sun is Fun, we are indeed having a fun time covering all that’s cool in solar. While many of the cool ideas…
Cool, Flexible Solar Panels
This is a rollable 124-watt solar panel that has a built in adhesive for roof mounting application. The adhesive is designed to mount to roof pans or metal sheets that can then be placed on your roof. To know more…
Liter of Light – Sunlight from a Water Bottle, What a Simple Idea!
In the Philippines’ urban slums, families are unable to afford electricity and often have no access to the grid anyway. But Filipino actor Illac Diaz is looking to change that. With his organization My Shelter Foundation, he’s come up with…
Believe It or Not! Solar Roadways are Being Attempted
The first time I heard about it a year back, I thought it was some sort of a prank. I heard about it again and again – someone trying using solar panels to make roadways. Roadways, seriously? Yes, it appears so.…