Here is a close look at the competition entry by Penn State University for the Solar Decathlon, as well as a video of the Solar PV technology developed by Solyndra that was integrated into the scheme.
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by Camille Ricketts
HelioFocus is taking solar thermal energy one step further — by adding wind. The system, described in a profile on Greentech Media, is a six-story high dish (not unlike the mirrored dishes used in other solar thermal arrays, only massive), that beams highly-concentrated sunlight into a receiver. That receiver, in turn, heats a batch of air to nearly 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, then shoots it through a gas turbine (the basis of jet engines). Via: GreenBeat
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This is the proposal from BSC Architecture (Timothy Bade, Jane Stageberg, + Martin Cox) for this years MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program. They were one of the finalists along with Indie Architecture, L.E.F.T. + PARA-Project. read more
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Alan Jaras, born and living in the North West of England, has always been fascinated in visualizing the invisible. Now retired after a long career as an industrial research scientist and photomicrographer working in optical and electron microscopy to investigate the world of materials science, he now enters the strange and wonderful world of the refraction patterns of light. read more
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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico have found a way of using sunlight to recycle carbon dioxide and produce fuels like methanol or gasoline. read more
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