Archive for September, 2009

Eco Cars: Peugeot’s BB1 Concept Is A Scooter/car Hybrid, Comes With A Solar Roof

Sep 15th 2009Uncategorized

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Eco Factor: Concept car for the Frankfurt Motor Show designed with a solar roof.

If you love a scooter because it’s easier to drive on a congested street, but hate it because of the lack of adequate safety systems then Peugeot is the brand you should look forward to. The company has unveiled their latest concept vehicle, dubbed BB1, for which they say, “Its mother is a scooter. Its father is a car.”

Via: AutoBlogGreen

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Nice Pay Package for First Solar’s New CEO

Sep 10th 2009Uncategorized

Robert Gillette, who will replace Michael Ahearn come Oct. 1, is set to get $5 million sign-on bonus and much more in stock and options.

First Solar’s new CEO will get a cool $5 million sign-on bonus and a starting annual salary of $850,000, according to a company filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday.

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Hair-Brained Teen May Revolutionize Solar Panel Industry

Sep 9th 2009Uncategorized

Update: Craig Hyatt has pointed us to his great article thoroughly debunking the concept of the Hair Brained Solar Panel.

Hair-Brained Teen May Revolutionize Solar Panel Industry

09-09-2009

Milan Karki, an 18-year-old Nepalese student who idolizes inventor Thomas Edison, has been experimenting with electricity since he was a child. His goal is to create low-cost, low-maintenance providers of energy in order to cheaply and efficiently bring power to remote, impoverished villages.

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Bubbletecture Stadium Popping Up in Melbourne

Sep 8th 2009Uncategorized

by Bridgette Meinhold

A bubbly new soccer and rugby stadium is popping up in Melbourne that will feature a highly engineered exterior structure combined with many sustainable features. Designed by Cox Architects, the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium is a marvel of architecture and engineering with it’s bubble-like facade inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome. Construction is fully underway, allowing a glimpse into how the cantilevered structure is being put together.

Original Source: Inhabitat

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Casino Group Signs 14-Megawatt Solar Panels Supply Agreement With SunPower (Reuters.com)

Sep 8th 2009Uncategorized

SAN JOSE, Calif. and GENEVA, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The French
retailer Casino Group and SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB) today
announced that SunPower will supply 14 megawatts of high-efficiency solar
photovoltaic panels to the supermarket conglomerate by the end of this year.
Casino Group will use the panels to install solar power systems ranging from
900 kilowatts to 5 megawatts on rooftops and parking structures on supermarket
locations in mainland France and the islands of Mayotte and La Reunion.

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Solar Power, Mobile Phones Converge to Distribute Water in Kenya – Green Inc. Blog

Sep 3rd 2009Uncategorized

VendingDavid Ngigi Villagers are introduced to a smart-card water vending system in Kenya.

Mobile phones have revolutionized trade across Africa, and in the space of just a decade or so, the continent has leapfrogged from minimal landline networks to pioneering mobile phone technology that often is not available in many western countries.

The communications company Safaricom, for example, introduced M-PESA — a phone based money transfer system — in 2007 (despite concerns over the lack of a legal framework governing transactions).

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BOcruiser Knows Solar Power, Set For 1,800 Mile Road Race – Solar Power

Sep 3rd 2009Uncategorized

By Ray Wert, 8:30 AM on Wed Sep 2 2009, 1,614 views (Edit, to draft, Slurp)

This is the solar-powered ‘BOcruiser,’ presented yesterday in the western German city of Bochum. Set to compete in the 3,000 km (1,864 mi) World Solar Challenge later this month in Australia, it’s certainly an odd-looking solar car.

via jalopnik.com

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Toyota Auris HSD full hybrid concept for Frankfurt

Sep 3rd 2009Uncategorized

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Toyota Auris HSD full hybrid concept for Frankfurt

By Gizmag Team

17:21 September 2, 2009 PDT

The Toyota Auris HSD Full Hybrid Concept

The Toyota Auris HSD Full Hybrid Concept

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Toyota is set to unveil the Toyota Auris HSD Full Hybrid Concept at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor show. The concept represents a milestone in Toyota’s strategy: introducing Toyota’s full hybrid technology to a mainstream model, and the first step in the deployment of Hybrid Synergy Drive across the company’s model range. Other firsts at Frankfurt for Toyota include the new Prius Plug-in Hybrid Concept, an all-new Toyota Land Cruiser and two customised iQ show cars – iQ for Sports and iQ Collection.

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Solar Panel Plant Brings Green Manufacturing To Mazomanie – Money News Story – WISC Madison

Sep 3rd 2009Uncategorized

Solar Panel Plant Brings Green Manufacturing To Mazomanie

Cardinal Solar Technologies Held Grand Opening Tuesday

Updated: 8:18 am CDT September 2, 2009

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MAZOMAINE, Wis. — A new solar panel manufacturing plant held its grand opening Tuesday in Mazomanie, which means new jobs for the area and hopeful future for renewable energy in the state.

Mazomanie has lost a couple of major manufacturers in the past few years. The community lost Sunny Industries in 2007. It reopened as Synergy Graphics, which ultimately closed in August of last year.

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Solid State Technology- Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry News covering Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment, Process, Services

Sep 3rd 2009Uncategorized

September 2, 2009 — By Howard Greninger, The Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Ind.

Sep. 2–While Dr. Harold and Terri Loveall’s Vigo County barn looks like any other in Indiana, it’s what’s on top of the south-facing sloping roof that makes it very unique.

The 66- by 28-foot roof supports 60 photovoltaic solar panels, each producing 224-watts of electricity. The panels are aligned in four rows, or two sub-arrays, with each sub-array producing 6.7 kilowatts, making the entire system produce 13.4 kilowatts of electricity, said Phillip Roberts, owner of One Planet Solar & Wind, a Terre Haute solar and wind distributing and contracting company that recently installed the system.

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