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City Planning, Environment, Science & Technology News, Solar Energy, Solar Power

Florida’s ‘city of the future’ is first solar-powered town in America

June 9, 2018

Developers hope Babcock Ranch will become America’s first self-sustaining city; Phil Keating reports on the progress.Video

America’s first solar community coming to life in Florida

Developers hope Babcock Ranch will become America’s first self-sustaining city; Phil Keating reports on the progress.

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Energy, Environment, Ideas, Solar Energy

Pioneering ‘liquid air’ project can help store excess electricity

June 7, 2018

A pioneering project in north-west England will turn air into liquid for energy storage to help electricity grids cope with a growing amount of wind and solar power.

The world’s first full-scale “liquid air” plant is based on a technology that advocates say is cheaper and able to provide power for longer periods than lithium-ion batteries.

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China, Energy, Solar Energy, Solar Power

Breakthrough solar panel can harvest power from raindrops — day or night

May 22, 2018

In a truly remarkable feat of innovation, scientists have figured out how to create “hybrid” solar cells that generate power not just from sunlight but also from raindrops. This means we may soon see all-weather solar panels that work when it is cloudy and even at night, if it’s raining.

Solar has soared in recent years, as panel prices have dropped so fast that solar keeps crushing its own record for the cheapest power “ever, anywhere, by any technology” — even without a subsidy.

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Automobiles, China, Ecological Products, Electric Vehicles, Energy, Solar Energy

6 solar roads shaking up infrastructure around the world

April 17, 2018

Roads aren’t just for walking or driving anymore. Solar road or pathway projects around the world are showing that streets can both provide firm footing and generate clean energy. Inhabitat rounded up six projects in places as diverse as China and rural Georgia to highlight potentially game-changing technologies in the solar road sphere.

Solar Roadways use modular solar panels covered in tempered glass

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Energy, Engineering, Solar Energy, Solar Power

Hybrid solar cell captures energy from the sun and raindrops

March 8, 2018

A new hybrid solar cell device can capture energy from the sun and from the movement of raindrops.As useful and ubiquitous as solar energy is becoming, it still has one major Kryptonite: gloomy weather. Now, a team of Chinese engineers has developed a hybrid solar cell that can produce electricity come rain or shine, using the triboelectric effect to harvest energy from the movement of raindrops on its surface.

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AI, Bill Gates, Breakthrough Thinking, Medicine, Science & Technology News, Solar Energy

Bill Gates thinks these six innovations could change the world

January 13, 2018

When Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press, he changed the course of history. You could say the same about Thomas Edison’s light bulb, Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine, and Grace Hopper’s compiler. What will be the next great invention to transform history? Here are a few innovations that I think are worth watching.

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Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Energy, Latest Trend, Solar Energy

The role your car plays in democratizing the energy grid

October 28, 2017

Decentralized power systems could have huge impacts on vehicles in the near future—and not just in terms of how we’ll charge our cars.

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Breakthrough Thinking, Energy, Solar Energy, Solar Power

Transparent solar panels are “the wave of the future”

October 27, 2017

Researchers from Michigan State University believe transparent solar panels have the potential to generate just as much solar power as rooftop solar panels. When used effectively, they could at full implementation provide 40 percent of electricity in the U.S.

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China, Environment, Solar Energy, Solar Power

Solar Panels to be Integrated into 10 Million Bicycles in China

October 1, 2017

Thin-film solar cell vendor Hanergy Holding Group has signed an agreement with bike-sharing company MTbike to integrate solar panels into the body of more than 10 million bicycles in the next three years.

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Battery, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News, Solar Energy, Solar Power

Quiet energy revolution underway in Japan as dozens of towns go off the grid

September 22, 2017

TOKYO/HIGASHI MATSUSHIMA, JAPAN (Reuters) – A northern Japanese city’s efforts to rebuild its electric power system after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami mark a quiet shift away from the country’s old utility model toward self-reliant, local generation and transmission.

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Agriculture, Farming, Farms, Food, Science & Technology News, Solar Energy

South Korea is building a $10 billion agriculture city in Egypt

August 29, 2017

Within six months, 311,400 acres of land in Egypt will be transformed into an agriculture city. The $10 billion deal was signed on Tuesday by Egypt and the Korea-Arab Society (KAS). The project will feature 50,000 smart greenhouses in addition to a number of seawater desalination and solar power plants. Continue reading… “South Korea is building a $10 billion agriculture city in Egypt”