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Rotating Solar Home Generates Five Times the Energy It Uses
The Heliotrope solar-powered home created by German architect Rolf Disch rotates to follow the sun’s rays. The design generates enough energy to fully power the home and feeds surplus energy to the grid, making it the world’s first energy positive solar home capable of producing five times the energy it uses. The cylindrical-shaped Heliotrope has a [...]
Continue reading...Solar-Powered Car Port Provides Clean Energy Charging at Home
Thursday, July 1, 2010
If you have a need for a car port that both protects your EV and charges it with renewable energy, Phat Energy has a solar-powered one to fit the bill. The PHATport 350 fits a single car and comes equipped with a 2.5kW solar array. The port can be customized with lights, electrical outlets and, of [...]
Continue reading...Pocket-Sized Fuel Cell Charges Gadgets Away From Home
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies, a maker of cool fuel cell gadgets, like hydrogen-powered toy cars for kids, has introduced their coolest gadget yet: a pocket-sized portable fuel cell power plant that can charge your cell phones, MP3 players and other devices. The MiniPAK, as it’s called, comes with two refillable cartridges that each store the same [...]
Continue reading...15 creative cardboard-made furniture items for home decor
Thursday, April 29, 2010
In a bid to save forests, designers have tried to make use of materials that can replace wood to carve your home or office furniture. Finding alternatives isn’t easy, but designers have not started trusting the strength of cardboard as a raw material for steady furniture. Cardboard designs are all the rage these days, as [...]
Continue reading...The Last resort: Sleek solar powered floating home
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Mobile floating architecture has always been a viable option before us to counter space constraints due to shortfall in the availability of land. People have been using sustainable structures to live on the water in many parts of the world but they have too elementary in terms of design and construction. The Last Resort, is [...]
Continue reading...Amazing DIY projects to create electricity at home
Monday, April 12, 2010
We all need electricity to power the infinite set of energy-sucking appliances that we depend upon so much. However, the rise in the cost of electricity has made homeowners think about means to fuel their technology-driven lives with alternative sources of energy. Though there are a variety of renewable energy generators available on the market, [...]
Continue reading...TerraPower Wants Small Scale Nuclear Reactors for Home Use
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Nuclear Power is cleaner than most of the sources used conventionally to generate power, but putting up reactors in homes would require a whole lot of convincing to do. TerraPower, a startup that has some funding and backing from Microsoft founder Bill Gates, aims to create small nuclear reactors that would be acceptable, and [...]
Continue reading...Save Energy with Home Automation
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
The phrase “home automation” probably doesn’t make you automatically think of energy savings. In fact, you’d probably think automating your home would use more energy. But, you’d be wrong. The fact is, home automation can actually save you a great deal of energy and therefore money. Another term that has become somewhat synonymous with home automation [...]
Continue reading...Solar powered home theater
Sunday, April 19, 2009
A luxury home may have a big screen and a cool sound system that feels like you’re in a cinema. Richard Glikes, the executive director Home Theater Specialists of America created a roof-mounted solar panel powered home theater system that generate 700 watts in daylight and can power up the entertaining system for 19 hours! Via [...]
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Friday, August 20, 2010
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