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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: solar aircraft, freshwater wind farms, and the Automotive X Prize

Admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:00:00 +0000

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.

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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: solar aircraft, freshwater wind farms, and the Automotive X Prize

Solar Impulse returns from 24 hour test flight 26 hours later

Admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:58:00 +0000

Rest easy, fans of solar-powered aeronautics. Captain Piccard’s Solar Impulse has safely returned after 26 hours in the air — powered by nothing but the sun. The four-engine aircraft, which features 12,000 solar cells arranged on its wingspan, reached a height of almost 29,000 feet before touching down at Payerne Airport near Berne, Switzerland today

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Uplink Audio Strap System offers solar power for runners on the run

Admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:50:00 +0000

Designer Adam Hammerman’s concept — the Uplink Audio Strap System — is for all you sports enthusiasts that want to listen to tunes while running but don’t want to be bothered with headphones. It can connect with a variety of different mobile devices, and boasts four ultrasound speakers, meaning that you can hear the music but nobody else can, so you’re not disturbing the peace! For outdoorsy types, of course, it would be a much safer system for things like running, since you would still be able to hear the street noise around you, and the device would also have flexible solar panels which charge the speakers on the go. It’s just a concept for now, but one we’d like to see in reality.

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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: a US team wins the Solar Decathalon!

Admin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:07:00 +0000

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us. This week Inhabitat reported live from the scene of the Solar Decathlon in Madrid as 17 stunning solar-powered houses competed for the title of the world’s most energy-efficient prefabricated house. The winner was just announced this evening and we’re thrilled to see that an American team won: Virginia Tech’s shape-shifting Lumenhaus

LG’s solar hybrid AC unit probably won’t do much to cool your power bill

Admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:38:00 +0000

Air conditioning that’s 90 percent more efficient ? Pshaw. How about solar air conditioning that powers itself on the sunniest days?

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Apple patent application hints at solar-powered iPhone

Admin — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:51:00 +0000

Solar-powered Apple patents are nothing new, but we’d always thought Steve intended to blanket his devices with the technology.

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Sony patent application points to dual-screen, dual-use tablet

Admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 18:33:00 +0000

We never put too much faith in patent applications leading to actual products, but we can’t help but get a little bit excited about the possibilities presented by a recent Sony application for a dual-screen tablet. Described specifically as an “electronic book with enhanced features,” the device would sport two screens that could take on a different functionality depending on how the device is oriented — functioning as an e-reader when in portrait mode, and displaying a keyboard on the lower screen when placed on a table, for instance

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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: salad spinners, diapers, and solutions to the Deepwater catastrophe

BlaineSnook64 — Mon, 10 May 2010 03:42:00 +0000

The Week in Green is a new item from our friends at Inhabitat , recapping the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us. This week renewable energy received a giant jolt forward as Google unveiled plans to invest $40 million in North Dakota wind farms .

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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: wind power, shoe power, and the world’s largest laser

Admin — Sun, 02 May 2010 19:00:00 +0000

The Week in Green is a new item from our friends at Inhabitat , recapping the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us. This week Inhabitat showcased several smart new technologies that harness clean green energy from unexpected (and undeniably awesome) sources. Volcanoes may be the bane of air travel as of late, but Indonesia has hatched a plan to harness their geothermal might to produce 4,000 megawatts of power

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Geely IG is covered in solar cells, two years away from marketability

Admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:21:00 +0000

Chinese carmaker Geely is no stranger to building derivative designs , and its latest PHEV effort takes so much inspiration from Volkswagen’s Beetle that even the press release begins with a metaphor about caterpillars flourishing into butterflies. That’s also a little nod to the car’s development, which has seen its initial design overhauled into the four-seater, photovoltaic cell-laden transporter you see above.