Cargo ships with solar sails
Wind power helps propel the ships while solar panels in the sail generate electricity. This lowers costs and carbon emissions as well.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Category Solar power
Solar-powered refrigerator
Emily Cummins, 21, invented this solar-powered fridge while working on a project for school. It “is now improving the lives of thousands of poverty-stricken Africans” and is entirely self-contained and doesn’t even have solar panels.
Wireless solar-powered cordless compaction system
Symphony Services has announced that BigBelly Solar, a Massachusetts-based company producing a patented solar powered compacting trash receptacle that is completely self-powered, selected the company to engineer new software for its flagship cordless compaction system. Big Belly compacts trash to…
Solar powered wifi
Meraki has announced the availability of Meraki Solar, the world’s first self-powered WiFi mesh device. The Meraki Solar is powered by its own solar panel and solar-charged battery and represents a quantum leap forward in enabling the rapid deployment of…
The “Roboat”: Solar and Linux-powered sailboat
The Roboat can transit the Atlantic with no human intervention. Racecourses too. It is entirely self-powered (solar with fuel cell backup) and uses Linux. Its inventors say it could be used to survey waters and fishing resources, provide a safety…