Another proof that solar powered devices are the future. Apple is planning to implement solar panels under the iPhone’s touchscreen.
Apple has filed a patent for a surprising new technology- the implementation of solar cells underneath the iPhone’s touchscreen.
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A new project revealed. According to this post, a new solar powered airplane is about to be launched. The only question I would like to ask is: if it’s about to be launched, how come there’s no video of the actual plane? I suspect that it doesn’t exist yet but it’s a good start.
Here’s how it works:
It’s powered by a dense array of photovoltaic (solar) cells which generate electricity from sunlight during the day and store it in on-board lithium batteries to be used at night.
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I think that in the future everything will be working with solar energy, unless they find out another way to harness energy. The more I’m searching on the web the more products I find. Nowadays you can power almost anything with the help of solar panels and since they are even making pain work as a solar panel, the whole market is very close to change.
Here’s a short description of the inflatable solar panel:
Water heaters are one of the primary power-hungry devices in most households. That’s why the prospect of an affordable solar panel system is particularly exciting.
The inflatable SolarStore by British company, IDC, is planned for commercial availability at less than 100 pounds ($200). While most domestic solar systems take 10-20 years to return the initial investment, IDC promises that their system will pay back its cost in six months.
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I’ve seen a few things in my life but these gadgets are worth mentioning. Most of them are useless but if we take a look around ourselves we can notice a few useless things we have laying around our house, so why not solar powered gadgets?
The best thing is that I found a bunch of gadgets by just looking on one site. Here are a few that are worth mentioning:
To find even more interesting gadgets go here
As solar panels are beginning to be more and more used, it’s getting easier to see the results of the effect these have on our environment. It is a fact that all forms of generating electricity are creating emissions whick are more or less harmful for the environment we are living in.
Here are some facts:
PV systems generate sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen oxide emissions, resulting from the fossil energy used in production. The production of PV systems is also responsible for toxic metal emissions, including arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury and nickel, as all these elements are present in fossil-fuels.
Now, this doesn’t sound good, but I assure you that other types of generating energy are either even more harmful or less effective.
But there are good news:
Emissions From Solar Power Technologies Continue To Fall
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There are lots of sites which are concentrated on selling solar panels. I thought it would be good to have them all in one place.
Here are some:
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Here’s a great video on how solar panels are made. I found it on Youtube and I thought that it would be interesting to share. There are other videos too on this topic but this one seemed the best.
Here it is:
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The plastic material uses nanotechnology and contains the first solar cells able to harness the sun’s invisible, infrared rays.
Like paint, the composite can be sprayed onto other materials and used as portable electricity. A sweater coated in the material could power a cell phone or other wireless devices. A hydrogen-powered car painted with the film could potentially convert enough energy into electricity to continually recharge the car’s battery.
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If this is true then it will change the whole concept of how we harness energy. I don’t know how it will affect the worldwide economy, but if it will be released, there might be some controversy. Just imagine that you won’t have to buy gas for your vehicle or you won’t have to pay for electricity… Even if this project will be finished, I doubt it that it will hit the market very soon or in the best case, it will be very very expensive, so you won’t afford to buy it anyway…
Today I came across a short but good article on how the Harvesting, Distribution, Storage and Pricing works when we’re talking about solar energy. There are just simple answers for dummies and for people who don’t really know much about solar energy and want to learn some quick facts.
Read the article here
If you want to know more about Solar Energy check out Wikipedia
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05 30th, 2008| 
