Residential Solar Power News
If you haven’t heard about solar printing, listen to this. MIT researchers developed a way to print solar cells onto ordinary sheets of paper. And harvest solar energy. And power your portable electronics. For very little money. Interested in going solar? Get pricing information here. These “solar papers” can be printed onto anything from [...]
One simple device is about to change the education of 100 million Indian schoolchildren. Students in rural Indian villages are now in the process of testing the I-Slate, a solar-powered tablet PC developed by Rice University and Singapore’s Nanyang Tech University.
Because their schools lack electricity, most of these students had [...]
Last month, Eton, manufacturer of kinetically powered gadgets, introduced the Scorpion. It is a hybrid of Eton’s typical fare, this time incorporating solar power into the equation. The gadget can be used by hikers to charge mobile devices, access weather reports, listen to the radio and power a built-in LED flashlight.
The Scorpion may be powered [...]