Today’s practical solar panels are also aesthetically unpleasant, because they are usually bulky and usually ruin a home’s looks (unless you really want it to look geeky). Heritage Solar Slate, a UK-based company, proposes solar cells that are identical to classic roofing slates, fully weather proof and aesthetically pleasing.

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A project started in Paris aims to harvest the heat generated by the people passing in the metro to help heat a public housing project in the city center. The building is located in the famous rue Beaubourg, close to the Pompidou museum, and is currently undergoing an environmentally-friendly renovating project.

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Wave Hub is the name of one of the world’s biggest wave energy generation test site. It has been installed off Cornwall’s northern coast and is the UK’s first offshore wave energy site. Wave Hub will allow four wave energy generator systems to be evaluated simultaneously. The systems also have a total capacity of 20 MW.

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