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Computer science and mathematics are providing a number of other technological advances that are making remote solar design more automatic, while offering improvements in accuracy.

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Sustainably designed LuminAID lanterns, specifically created to aid natural disaster survivors and relief workers, give off light for more than 30 hours on a single solar charge.

The plant's original plan called for producing enough solar panels to generate 1,000 megawatts of electricity, although Peter Rive, SolarCity's chief technology officer, said this month that improvements to the equipment design and factory layout could allow it to produce more than 1 gigawatt in panels.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The out - of - this - world Community Design Lab where kids and adults alike can participate in hands - on astronomy crafts such as DIY solar phone filters, pinhole eclipse projectors and more.

For example, the canopy should be specially designed in mesh to reduce the certain amount of solar heat and other UVA / UVB rays that probably reach your kid's sensitive eyes or skin more than 65 %.

CHA did some site design work for a solar panel factory that SUNY Poly is building in South Buffalo, and also has more than $ 30 million in various state contracts for everything from dam inspection to crafting a high speed rail plan.

Those designed to quickly stop and start a car's petrol engine to improve fuel efficiency need a quick burst of power, but for smoothing a domestic solar panel's output, capacity might be more important than speed.

Use this kit to construct a night - vision flashlight, design a solar system mobile, build a constellation box, and more.

Previous solar sails had been flat, designed that way to catch more sunlight, but it was difficult to keep them properly aligned with the sunlight.

The development and deployment of major technologies potentially crucial to more sustainable energy — such as nuclear power, wind and solar power, biomass conversion and transport infrastructure — are matters of systems design requiring a mix of public and private decision making.

Solar - powered cars have been little more than a novelty to date, experimental vehicles resembling photovoltaic - laden surfboards designed mostly for racing across deserts.

This solar wind whistles past the Earth at more than 500 kilometres per second and Winglee is designing his sail to ride this storm.

Stirling engines are significantly more efficient at converting sunlight into energy than most photovoltaic panels or concentrating solar power plants, whether parabolic trough or tower designs.

In 2013, Lewis was awarded a Fulbright that he used to travel to the Czech Republic explore ways to more quickly design materials for solar applications.

Energy bills could be cut by more than 60 % - saving the average household over # 600 a year — if homes were designed to generate, store and release their own solar energy, a report published today has revealed.

These designs can absorb about 80 to 90 percent of the concentrated sunlight directed at them when considering reflections and heat loss, but Ho said design improvements to make the receivers even more efficient are needed to help reduce the cost of concentrating solar power and improve scalability.

«It is important for us to understand this, so that we can design new materials, for example, to build better or more efficient solar cells, or make better and more economical use of fossil fuels,» Elmlund said.

Presently, chemists working to design more efficient organic solar cells rely heavily on «post-mortem» or post-manufacture analysis of the distribution of the constituent materials of the cells they produce.

These are hands - on, experiential learning opportunities designed to extend solar system science knowledge and to inspire students to learn more.

A group of scientists in the future far, far away may be able to design and develop a real - life Millennium Falcon with a hyperdrive that could take us beyond the limits of our solar system - one that would probably cost us a hundred years of research and more than trillions of dollars.

«While our massive solar arrays will be generating only 500 watts when we are at Jupiter, Juno is very efficiently designed, and it will be more than enough to get the job done.»

In a bid to shed some more light on our closest star, NASA launched its most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the Sun in February this year - now the first images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory have been unveiled.

Many as... ▽ More The Kepler Mission, launched on Mar 6, 2009 was designed with the explicit capability to detect Earth - size planets in the habitable zone of solar - like stars using the transit photometry method.

The seventh grader won the award for designing a new, more efficient solar cell — a project he undertook at Meadow Park Middle School.

At The Workshop School, a project - based high school just a few miles west of Philadelphia's Center City, more than 50 percent of each student's day is dedicated to the research and implementation of a project, from designing a solar cellphone charger for personal use to auto repair for neighborhood clients (the school houses automotive and woodworking facilities).

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These cleverly designed compact teardrop trailers get more comfortable with the addition of flexible solar PV panels on the rooftop.

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We have a lot to learn from the way things are designed in nature, and both the general principle and more specific examples can be applied to everyday products to help them more effective, last longer, and be more efficient (see our recent look at sea sponges used for solar power for a great example).

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Portable solar has come a long way from the horribly inefficient and ill - designed devices of just a few short years ago, which were all too often more of a gimmick than a reliable and effective source of energy for daily use.

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Washington, D.C. - based Sol Systems announced a trio trio of finance options designed to make solar energy even more affordable throughout the state.

Furthermore, this consideration might influence the ideal location or orientation of a solar design (such as siting the design where it will get more afternoon light, and thus offset energy when electricity prices are higher, rather than where it would produce the most energy overall).

For commercial customers, whose utility bills include demand charges, the benefits of using Green Button data in the solar design process are a little more nuanced, so we will cover them in a later post.

PV - integrated structures provide home and business owners with extensive flexibility in the design and implementation of solar power when a solar roof is not cost effective or to achieve a more aesthetically pleasing integration of solar panels with structural design of patio and deck coverings, carport coverings, and picnic shelters.

The «Solar Cooker Designs» section of the Solar Cooking Wiki has more information you can use.

Along with Chicago's strong commitment to developing solar and wind power, the City is also building three libraries and a police station using LEED standards (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and spending more than $ 100 million to make existing city buildings more energy efficient and providing grants and incentives for others to do the same.

If your solar panel system was not originally designed with the ability to add storage later, the installation will be slightly more complicated.

I'd like to see more similar articles on passive solar designs, especially with real - world commentary on living in such environments for an extended time.

Solaflect designed its award - winning Tracker to solve the rooftop solar problem — by NOT pointing directly at the sun all day, panels on rooftops and other fixed surfaces miss out on 40 % more electricity they could be generating.

If installing your solar system is more complicated, it is especially helpful to find an installer that customizes your solar system design by selecting the best equipment and installation approach.

Here's a good, short guide to questions you should ask before jumping in; here's a more in - depth guide on program design, from the Solar Electric Power Association.

CEERT's White said the solar industry must understand that rate and incentive designs can no longer be only about adding more solar.

We designed of the first LEED Home in Houston and are familiar with solar systems, ICF and more.