Golfers spending time on the courses are always thinking Green, the Putting Green. Fortunately unknowingly they may also be driving around the links while being environmentally green in a Solar Powered Golf Cart.
Electric vehicles are going to be more common whizzing quietly down our streets in this decade. On the Golf course they have been [...]
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 [...]
The sea is an idea environment for developing new and renewable energies such as wave and wind power, but it is also home to shipping and we do not want to leave boats and ships of all sizes out of taking advantage of clean energy.
From the Taiwan company Horizon which is based in [...]
The first of four solar powered ferries will begin operation in Hong Kong around November 2009. The ferries have been ordered by the Hong Kong Jockey Club will operate on the route from Sai Kung to Kau Sai Chau Public Golf Course.
The ferries will be able to operate on 100% solar energy on sunny days [...]
Ever wanted a sun filled cruise around the world. The Solar Planet project is doing just that but using the sun to drive their solar powered boat rather then getting a tan.
The solar powered boat will make it`s round the world trip in around 4 months at an average speed of 10 knots just using [...]
In their latest marketing campaign Toyota are bringing to major Cities around the USA, solar flowers. These 18-foot flowering stems are popping up around the country with the theme “Harmony Between Man, Nature and Machine” Promoting the Toyota Pirus which Toyota plans to launch in 2010
As for the flowers themselves and the solar aspect. The petals [...]
While Major Aircraft makers are pushing themselves to produce more energy efficient aircraft, One environmentalist takes the ultimate leap and has designed and aircraft that uses NO energy. The Solar Impulse is the brain child of, the Swiss environmentalist, Bertrand Piccard who initally started the project in 2003.
The Solar Impulse experimental aircraft has a wing [...]
Recently docked in Long Beach, California, was the Japanese owned solar powered ship, the Auriga Leader. Labeled as the first commercial cargo ship utilizing solar power technology to reduce carbon emissions by its massive diesel engines. With over 300 solar photovoltaic solar panels mounted along its top deck, the Auriga Leader hopes to supply around [...]
With the inevitable decline of the worlds resources of petroleum, solar powered cars may be a viable alternate fuel in the years to come. The advancements in Electric powered cars are already producing run-a-rounds, although the advances in electrical storage devices needs to catch up to make electric cars an not-so-exotic alternative to fossil fuel [...]