Posts Tagged ‘Solar Powered’

Solar Pod – A renewable, independent power source with variety of usage

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As the solar power is a rage nowadays, Brad Sherman, the owner of the Costal Solar Power Company in Savannah, Georgia hires Anne Mason who collaborated with her classes at SCAD to develop a Solar Pod. Created with the intent to bring attention to the solar power, the Solar Pod is imagined with variety of usage ranging from disaster relief to various events as well as construction.

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Solar powered Orca du Soleil catamaran is a fun bonanza on blue waves

Solar powered Orca du Soleil catamaran

For those of you eco conscious souls who make every move while keeping in mind that it doesn’t make any bad impact on the environment whatsoever, here is a catamaran concept just to ensure you have ample fun on the waters in a green way. Keeping the eco concerns in mind, Frankfurt based designer, Markus Kurkowski, presents concept solar-catamaran made of modern environment friendly technologies.

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Self-sustaining Polar Umbrella protects and regenerates ice caps

Self-sustaining Polar Umbrella

Coming to the rescue of polar caps that are worse affected by the global warming, designer Derek Pirozzi comes up with a conceptual proposal of an umbrella shaped buoyant structure. The winner of this year’s eVolo Skyscraper Competition, the giant floating canopy is designed primarily to prevent as well as rebuild the Arctic and Antarctic ice layers by reducing the heat gain.

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Samsung introduces Africa’s first solar powered mobile healthcare center in Cape Town

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To ease Africa’s already burdened healthcare and education system, Samsung rolls a solar powered mobile healthcare truck into the Cape Town as a part of his ‘Built for Africa‘ slogan . What is deemed as Africa’s first solar powered mobile healthcare center, the seven meter long truck comes with numerous facilities.

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Zero-emission concept aircraft runs on renewable solar energy

Aircrafts are the fastest and by far the safest way to travel, however, environmentalists aren’t exactly that comfortable with aviation considering the amount of emissions associated with it. Designer Daphnic Fournier is trying to better the environmental credentials of air travel with a concept aircraft he calls the Ecological Aircraft Design Concept.

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Tesla unveils solar powered Supercharger network for its electric vehicles

While products like the Ebuggy are trying to revolutionize electric vehicle travel by offering a buggy that can be connected and rolled along with your electric car during long trips, Tesla has unveiled its highly anticipated Supercharger network for the same cause. Constructed in secret, the company revealed the locations of the first six Supercharger stations, allowing owners of Model S to travel long distances with ultra fast, solar powered charging throughout California and parts of Nevada and Arizona.

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Best solar powered cell phones for eco lovers

There is no denying the fact that the mobile phone industry is one of the fastest evolving technology industries in the world. This is the reason we see a lot of innovations in the field of mobile communications. However, at a time when the global environment is witnessing the perils of climate change, energy required to recharge all these devices is causing a problem for the electricity grid. Though, the electricity required to juice up your device every day isn’t much, the sheer number of cell phones that are currently being used all over the world, causes a major drain of energy. Like always, mobile phone manufacturers were quick to come up with new cell phones, which make use of solar energy to help you recharge your device off-the-grid. Here are some of the best solar powered cell phones that hint towards a future where mobile devices won’t ship with wall chargers.

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Technologies that help generate solar power for home using windows

With the steep rise in the cost of energy and concerns about carbon emissions related with energy generation have made homeowners around the world think about generating solar power to fuel their dwellings. However, people who live in separate houses have an option to add solar panels to their rooftops to generate valuable renewable energy, a majority of people who live in apartments don’t necessarily have the required infrastructure.

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Tree-shaped solar charger can recharge a variety of mobile devices

Gone are the days when you had to purchase a variety of solar chargers to charge your entire gadget gear when outdoors. Products such as the USB Solar Charger Tree can ease things for you, while also ensuring less production waste. The solar powered charger, which has been designed in the form of a tree, can charge almost any USB device and most known cell phones.

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World’s first solar powered kiosk comes up in Ethiopia

Designed by Graft Lab, the world’s first solar powered kiosk has officially be opened in Ethiopia. Envisioned as a standalone business unit that can sell eco friendly products and tools to the natives, the SolarKiosk provides a safe and affordable solution for people living on off-the-grid areas. People in such areas normally make use of diesel generators and kerosene lamps for electricity and lighting needs and the SolarKiosk aims to change all that will emission free electricity.

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