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 of light is more than enough to melt steel, vaporize aluminum, boil concrete, turn dirt into […]
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 most solar power plants we know are based on photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight to electricity (that’s […]
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 everyone, everywhere.
Rawlemon has the power to outperform traditional solar panels by many thousands of times. In […]
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 the sun during daylight hours, even when overcast. Because the batteries hold up to a […]
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 you thought this was a temporary phenomenon, listen to this: a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance […]
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 farm at its cargo complex allow about 50,000 kWh of electricity to be supplied by solar.
Way to […]
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 in solar are in the lab stage (which means it might take quite some time before we […]
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.
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Another flexible, Fuji FWave Solar Panel with real detailed descriptions
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 an innovative idea: turning empty plastic bottles into lamps.
Watch the video that shows the simple […]
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.
There is a Dutch experiment running on this subject. In addition, there is an entrepreneur couple in the United States […]
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