Imagine if all the windows of a building, and perhaps even all its exterior walls, could be put to use as solar collectors. Soon, you may not have to imagine it, as the Norweigan solar power company EnSol has patented a thin film solar cell technology designed to be sprayed on to just such … — full article at gizmag.com
Spray-on film turns windows into solar panels
August 19th, 2010 — Gadgets
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Solar Toothbrush eliminates need for toothpaste
August 19th, 2010 — Gadgets
These days there’s very little that you can’t find in a solar powered form. Now there is even a toothbrush in development that will require solar power. This is no ordinary toothbrush though, it’ll actually eliminate any need for toothpaste should the tests go well. Of course the toothpaste companies will probably sabotage the project somehow for fear of becoming extinct. These things do happen you know.
The University of Saskatchewan has a professor, Dr. Kunio Komiyama is currently working on getting this up and running. Along with him is his colleague Dr. Gerry Uswak. They’re both attempting to find 120 teen willing to use the prototype toothbrush for a short while so that they can see if it works well. It functions by causing a chemical reaction in the mouth that gets rid of plaque and bacteria. The solar portion will need a bright room to work within, since it functions much like a solar calculator. It’ll be interesting to see if something like this ever gets up and running, but it just seems strange to brush your teeth and not be left with that minty fresh feeling.
Source: GoodCleanTech
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NASA challenge searches for a solar-powered ‘Night Rover’
August 18th, 2010 — Gadgets
NASA regularly opens up challenges to foster development of new and exciting space technology, and it looks like it’s come up with a particularly challenging one recently — it’s asking interested parties to develop a solar-powered “Night Rover” that can store up enough energy during the day to continue to work throughout the night. That’s as opposed to the more recent crop of rovers that must do most of their work during the day, which NASA says forces them to pick and choose what tasks the rovers perform, thereby greatly reducing the chance for discoveries. It also notes that simply adding more batteries isn’t an option, since every tiny weight increase significantly adds to the cost of sending something into space. Think you’ve got what it takes? There’s a $1.5 million dollar prize in store for the winner.
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Engineers find new way of utilizing solar farms at night
August 18th, 2010 — Science
(PhysOrg.com) — New technology from The University of Western Ontario utilizing photovoltaic (PV) solar farms at night will help in connecting more renewable energy sources like wind turbines to Ontario’s grid, increasing power transmission limits, and providing a low-cost way of improving grid voltages and system performance.