Archive for July, 2010

Photovoltaic + Electric Vehicle = Clean Sustainable Transportation


This video talks about pairing solar panels with electric vehicles to offset high gas prices.

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Free Solar Heat “How to build a solar panel DIY” bloom box Part 1


www.youtube.com Harvest the sun.Easy step by step build your own solar heating/hot water system.Green energy the wave of the future. Stop high oil and gas prices. Goodbye oil crisis.Free power. ernie ernest a ursini DIY do it youself bloom box

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Six Years on Mars! [HD]


NASA’s Mars rover Spirit marked six years of unprecedented science exploration and inspiration for the American public on January 3, 2010. However, the upcoming Martian winter could end the roving career of the beloved, scrappy robot. Spirit successfully landed on the Red Planet at 8:35 pm PST on Jan. 3, 2004, and its twin Opportunity arrived at 9:05 pm Jan. 24, 2004. The rovers began missions intended to last for three months but which have lasted six Earth years, or 3.2 Mars years. During this time, Spirit has found evidence of a steamy and violent environment on ancient Mars that was quite different from the wet and acidic past documented by Opportunity, which has been operating successfully as it explores halfway around the planet. A sand trap and balky wheels are challenges to Spirit’s mobility that could prevent NASA’s rover team from using a key survival strategy for the rover. The team may not be able to position the robot’s solar panels to tilt toward the sun to collect power for heat to survive the severe Martian winter. Nine months ago, Spirit’s wheels broke through a crusty surface layer into loose sand hidden underneath. Efforts to escape this sand trap barely have budged the rover. The rover’s inability to use all six wheels for driving has worsened the predicament. Spirit’s right-front wheel quit working in 2006, and its right-rear wheel stalled a month ago. Surprisingly, the right-front wheel resumed working, though intermittently. Drives with four or five

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Tom Rand on Carbon Cutting Retrofits


Tom Rand is behind the building of the Planet Traveler Hotel in Toronto. This hostel is expected to use 75% less energy that a conventional commercial building. With the help of solar panels, heat pumps, LED lighting and other energy saving features, this building will not only reduce carbon emissions but will make money while doing it. The energy saved from each of the clean technologies is expected to pay for each of their costs within a few years.

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Build Your Own Solar Panel | How to Build a Home Made Solar Panel


www.EnergyBrainiac.com -Build Your Own Solar Panel – How to Build a Home Made Solar Panel Global warming and dSolarling supplies of fossil fuels have caused people from all corners of the globe to become concerned, resulting in a long overdue interest in the potential of Solar energy. On the other hand, many people have already embraced this free source of renewable energy and are already powering their homes with Solar energy. Solar Energy Radiation from our sun heats the air which in turn rises. As this warm air rises, so cooler air sinks down to replace it, resulting in perpetual Solar currents which cover the surface of our planet. Of course, Solar currents have energy and when one considers how devastating a hurricane or a tornado can be, it’s all to easy to imagine what a phenomenal amount of energy can be harnessed from the Solar. Of course, for the purpose of powering your home with Solar energy, we’re only interested in more moderate Solars, suitable for Solar Panels. In essence, a Solar Panel is much the same as the old original Solar Panel; only Solar Panels incorporate technology which allows us to convert Solar power into electricity Solar Panels In the past, Solar farms, which can sometimes be seen on the roadside, were mainly used to supply remote areas which were of the grid as well as remote farms. Nowadays however, Solar Panels are becoming increasingly common even in residential areas that do receive grid supplied power. In this case, a Solar Panel can

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Renewable Energy Comedy Show PILOT


chuckroy.com presents the Renewable Energy Comedy Show. THIS EPISODE Two Solar Panels walk into a bar… COMICS: Eddie Gossling, Hippieman, Matt Need, Stephanie McHugh, Eugene Kenny, Lori Callahan and Bob Meddles. TAPED AT: Comedy Works, Denver and Breckenridge Comedy Festival. The Renewable Energy Comedy Show tours comedy clubs, colleges and corporate events with kinda clean and kinda green stand-up comedy shows. MORE INFO: www.chuckroy.com Distributed by Tubemogul.

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Plasma Etch PE-200


This PE-200 Benchtop Plasma Etch System is fully automated and is capable of processing multiple parts up to 13″x13″. This particular system is designed for solar cell edge isolation. There are only two electrodes but the solar panels are stacked in between to process multiple panels simultaneously. Since this process can be rather long, Plasma Etch’s patented temperature control system is provided. The standard PE200 is offered with 3 electrode/shelves of 3″ spacing to place parts. General applications include cleaning and surface modification prior to bonding applications. An RIE configuration is offered for high rate anisotropic directional etching. VISIT THE PLASMA ETCH WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO: www.plasmaetch.com

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Senegal


This is the english version of a short movie about one of the social projects from Solar Without Borders. This project was in Senegal, in the village of Daga Youndoum. You will see some landscape, the local people, and the installation of 15 solar panels for the hospital build by the voluntary organisation SORA. Because of this project people now have electricity in the building for working at night and for certain electric devices needed in a hospital. There is also a fridge now for keeping vaccinations. This project was possible thanks to the support of Sora, Enfinity, Ecostream, Photovoltech and Solar Solidarity.

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Solarmer – buildaroo.com


Ricky from buildaroo.com interviewed Vishal from Solarmer, a company founded in 2006, and it was very fascinating to hear that they manufacture plastic solar panels! The plastic solar cells are made from polymer material which function as the photo absorbing layer for the cell. The polymer cells are around 10 times cheaper in cost relative to other silicon solar cells in the market! Moreover, they are flexible, transparent, and light weight which translates to easier installation and lower costs for the end user. That’s lower cost times two! You literally just stick them on to the surface you want them on, and a frame for the polymer cells is an option made available by the company. Solarmer has not started distributing this product yet, and they plan to be available in the market in the 2nd half of next year. They plan to enter market in a series of three stages. Initially, the polymer cells will be made available for hand-held electronic devices, subsequently smart appliances like umbrellas and bags, and finally building integration photovoltaics. Because these are plastic solar cells, there are no heavy metals or chemicals used in the manufacturing processes, and there is very little material used, 100 nanometre particularly per cell. The polymer cells have also received the certification of world record efficiency from the National Renewable Energy Lab . Check out Solarmer and more of our videos on our website. To learn more about sustainable products and services

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