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If your driving up the A9 Autobahn you might see a bright piece of artwork lighting up the sky this December.
Siemens have adorned a giant wind turbine in highly efficient LED’s that creates a spectacular display for the holiday season. Each blade of the wind turbine has 1000 Light Emitting Diodes glued on with space [...]

The iPetals probably won`t be your Christmas gift this year. It is just a concept for a solar phone charger from the designer, Mac Funamizu.
A cross between a flower and a fan, each petal of the charger is a flat solar panel that unfolds itself in to the shape of a flower. Hinged at [...]

The Stingray Solar Powered Light Emitting Diode Torch.
Over the years I have become accustomed to having more than keys on my keychain. The main addition is my USB memory stick that has grown smaller in size but greater in capacity. Here is another addition that would fit nicely on my chain.
The Stingray is a [...]

Diamonds, according to the song, are a girls best friend are made from Carbon. The ingredients of those sparkling gems have a darker side too. While commonly in environmental circles carbon is the C in CO2 there is another combination of this element and that is soot or black carbon.
The complexity of the earth climate [...]

Part of the holiday festivities include the lighting displays that brighten up the cold winters nights. At some places not only the trees are green, the lights have gone green also.
Theme parks around the country embrace this time of year to put on very special lighting displays and some of those displays will cost much [...]

November the 27th has seen the opening of the worlds largest solar powered office building.  The massive complex has been built in Dezhou, China and covers an area of 75 thousand square meters.

Facilities incorporated into the structure include an exhibition center and hotel along with scientific research facilities.  Environmental aspects have been used throughout the [...]

The Times Square Countdown goes green with LED lighting.
The traditional Ball drop that marks the start of the New Year in times square has gone a bit greener this year. For the fist time the illuminations will be completed powered by Light Emitting Diodes (LED).
Energy usages of LED lighting is around 80% of the [...]

Keep your food crops safer with another self powered solar gadget the bird repeller.
Spring is just around the corner and any respectful gardener is thinking about planting next years crops. Keeping those seedlings safe is not an easy task and the sweetness of those juicy leaves poking through the soil is just honey to some [...]

Light Emitting Diodes (LED) lighting is proving to be extremely efficient and producing some unwanted side effects.
Their use in Traffic Lighting has proved to be a great way for cities and towns around the world to save on energy and also as they last much longer than traditional light bubs they need less maintenance.
A [...]

The solar Impulse aircraft has taken a small step in its bid to fly around the world.
Boeing has made its first flight of its efficient airliner, the 787 Dreamliner,  but that is no match to the plans of Bertrand Piccard. It is his hope to fly around the world in his experimental plane, named the [...]