Rengen are currently taking pre-orders for their ReNu solar charger module which should be shipping in 2010. This modular design covers a range of products that integrate with each other, the heart of the system here is the Solar Panel module. Measuring  just over 8  by 8 inches and about 3/4 in thickness this weighs in at just over a [...]

The 2009 Global Green Challenge as been won by the Japanese Tokai Challenger solar car. The race, which is run ever two years, is a gruelling 3000 kilometre dash across the Australian outback. This year there were 32 solar vehicles entered from 16 countries competing. Coming in second place was Infinium, from the US University of Michigan. The race was [...]

Samsung are about the launch the E1107 Crest solar powered mobile phone in Europe and Asia. The phone integrates the effective free energy from the sun making this a virtually self powered phone. In reality for average use the phone will need to be normally powered via the usual A/C adapter and the solar aspect used as a top up [...]

The Russian parliament is introducing moves to ban the sale and production of the energy hungry Incandescent Light Bulb. To be introduced in stages starting with those bulbs with a rating over 100 watts from January 1, 2011. This will be followed in 2013 with the rating ban lowered to those over 75 watts. With a third stage in 2014 [...]

This week will see the switch thrown of the (currently) largest solar power plant in the United States of America. The Desoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Florida is about to be turned on and will have a capacity of about 25 megawatts of electrical production. This solar plant takes up and area of 180 acres and is situated [...]

E-book readers have given a step up to the dying art of book reading. By removing the need for forest to be cut down and pulped in to paper, the E-book has already put one foot forward towards being environmentally friendly. LG Displays has proceeded with taking another step in their announcement of the solar powered E-book reader prototype. With [...]

The Japanese electronics giant, Sharp, have announced development of their latest efficient photovoltaic solar cell. With a conversion rating of 35.8% this improves on their previous incarnation which ran at 31.5%. Increasing the efficiency of solar cells allows for higher electricity production without increasing the surface area requited. It also would improve the charge back time of small consumable gadgets [...]

Solar lighting is starting to take off in a big way in recent years. As manufacturers embrace the news technology of Solar power and combining that with the extremely energy efficient LED illumination more lightning designs are appearing on the market. Not all are good or practical to use and others just cost too much to be cost effective. Some [...]

Clothing and Accessory designers can now look to incorporating flexible thin film solar technology in to their latest design range. Ultra thin solar cell technology has been commercially developed by G24 Innovations and has begun supplies to manufacturers to incorporate solar technology. While the typical idea of solar panels are the photovoltaic kind that adorn rooftops and cover large areas [...]