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How To Build A Green House
Five years ago, my family purchased a ranch house in the country. There were no houses across the road, and at night, visibility beyond our front porch was zero. We were thrilled, having moved from...
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Micro-Generation
Living off grid can be comfortable, as homes in a 16-square-mile area of Decorah, Iowa know. Supplementing energy needs using the powers of the Earth, one considers storage before turning on any...
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Starting With Solar
Most of us cannot feasibly afford to install a full solar power system into our homes. Energy Refuge suggests starting small. One solar panel and a sealed battery would hold about 400 watts of...
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Solar Powered Car Device keeps you Cool
With the school year winding down, parents look ahead to plenty of hot summer days out on the road with the kids in the car. Just how hot those days can be may not hit you until you open the door of a...
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A house 100% off the grid… is it possible?
Image a world where at home you use your own energy, where you are totally off the grid… it's more doable then you might think. There are a couple of ways you can accomplish this… and the best thing...
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9 Most Unusual Solar Gadgets
The human race has entered into the new millennium with great expectations of what futuristic products will become available to them. While flying cars and teleportation devices may still be well out...
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Google Banking on the Sun
Internet giant Google announced on Monday that it will build a 9,200 cell solar power installation to provide roughly 30 percent of the power needed by its Mountainview, CA campus. Google estimates...
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Alternative Energy – Things you didn’t know
As our energy needs rise, as our supplies of fossil fuels run out and as the state of our planet become more precarious, we increasingly need to look at alternative energy sources to meet our...
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NASA says it Will colonize the Moon by 2024
Great news for the human race, today NASA has announced plans to colonize the moon by 2024. The plan is to have permanent staffing at one of the moons poles, most likely the souther pole as it’s the...
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New Solar Technology Doubles Use of Sunlight
New technology could, within the year, lower the price of solar energy below that of conventional energy. Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy, the “disruptive” technology” uses sunlight twice as...
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Unplugged
Did you know even when you shut down powered devices in your home, phantom power usage continues? It all adds up. Besides increasing the cost of your electricity bill, it is an energy waster. Cell...
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Technology brings Sun Light to a Town of Darkness
Springtime light may lift the spirits, but in Rattenberg, residents have a long memory for shadows. From late fall to midwinter, this tiny Austrian town, famous for its glassblowing, gets no sun at...
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Holographic Solar: New Method of Concentrating Sunlight Energy
Prism Solar Technologies in New York has developed a proof-of-concept solar module that uses holograms to concentrate light, possibly cutting the cost of solar modules by as much as 75 percent, making...
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Largest Solar Park in the World Opens in Germany
The ribbon was cut on the World’s largest continguous solar plant on 27th April 2006 in Germany. Construction on the 40 million euro (US$48 million) photovoltaic installation started August 2005. This...
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Nanotechnology
Alternate energy sources have not been able to compete with fossil fuels in terms of cost. With a constantly increasing demand for energy resources, we need to look at renewable energy resources. Some...
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Solar Sea
A new environmentally friendly energy source may be found in the world’s oceans. Marine bacteria DNA contains ‘proteorhodopsin’, a light capturing pigment which is similar to the pigment in the human...
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How To Build A Green House
Five years ago, my family purchased a ranch house in the country. There were no houses across the road, and at night, visibility beyond our front porch was zero. We were thrilled, having moved from...
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Micro-Generation
Living off grid can be comfortable, as homes in a 16-square-mile area of Decorah, Iowa know. Supplementing energy needs using the powers of the Earth, one considers storage before turning on any...
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Starting With Solar
Most of us cannot feasibly afford to install a full solar power system into our homes. Energy Refuge suggests starting small. One solar panel and a sealed battery would hold about 400 watts of...
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