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University of Georgia stops plant photosynthesis to generate solar power

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University of Georgia interrupts plant photosynthesis to make truly green energy

There’s a more efficient way to harvest energy from the backyard than by wiring up hapless critters. Researchers at the University of Georgia have proof: they’ve discovered a way to generate electricity from plants through hijacking the photosynthesis process. By altering the proteins inside a plant cell’s thylakoids, which store solar energy, scientists can intercept electrons through a carbon nanotube backing that draws them away before they’re used to make sugar. While the resulting power isn’t phenomenal, it’s still two orders of magnitude better than previous methods, according to the university. The protein modification method may have a rosier future, as well: the team believes that it could eventually compete with solar cells, producing green energy in a very literal sense.

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CSL Robotikits 6-in-1 Solar Kit

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CSL Robotikits 6-in-1 Solar Kit

CSL Robotikits 6-in-1 Solar Kit

  • Environment friendly
  • A good starter for budding enginers
  • Kit contains 6 models to build
  • Only one project can be completed at a time
  • Colors and contents may vary from illustration

Children use 21 snapping together parts to building six different desings. It’s most advantageous because: it’s very inexpensive for individuals or groups; clear easy to following instructions; motivating the children to learning about solar energy; a great project for boys or girls clubs; teaches students to follow precise visual diagrams; have hours of fun experimenting.

For best results use outside in direct sunlight!

List Price: $ 0.99

Price: $ 3.89

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IBM solar collector will concentrate the power of 2,000 suns, keep its cool

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IBM alliance's HCPVT solar collector produces 25kW of power, keeps its cool

Modern solar collectors can focus just a lot energy for security’s sake: too much in one place and they run the risk of cooking themselves. An IBM-led group is working on a new collector meal that could stay clear of that damage while taking a big advance in solar power efficiency. The hundreds of photovoltaic chips collecting energy at the center will be cooled by the exact same type of microchannel water cooling that kept Aquasar from frying, letting each chip securely concentrate 2,000 times the solar power it would usually face. The collector likewise guarantees to do even more with sunlight once it’s trapped: because the microchannels should absorb more than half of the waste heat, their hot water by-product can either be filtered into drinkable water or converted into cooling.

As you may think of, IBM sees more than simply the apparent environmental benefit. When a receiver will produce about 25kW of energy while costing less to make with less expensive mirrors and structures, a totally developed solar variety can be a budget friendly replacement for coal power that provides higher freedom– photo remote towns that need a fresh water system. IBM does not estimate when we’ll see production of these collectors past a number of prototypes, but the finished work will likely be welcome to anybody discouraged by the scalability of existing solar power.

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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: algae-powered building, ionic wind thrusters and 3D-textured solar cells

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Each week our buddies at Inhabitat recap the week’s most fascinating green developments and clean tech information for us– it’s the Week in Green.

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Today, Inhabitat stated that the world’s first algae-powered building officially opened its doors in Hamburg. It’s called the BIQ Home and it includes an excellent bio-adaptive algae facade that controls day lighting while producing a stable stream of sustainable energy. It makes sense that the self-sufficient building is found in Germany; the European nation is blazing a trail in clean tech. Despite dumping its nuclear reactor, Germany has quadrupled its energy manufacturing in the previous two years, largely due to its rapidly expanding alternative energy portfolio. Not to be outdone, England just flipped the turn on the world’s largest wind farm, and in Paris, Schneider Electric set up kinetic energy-harvesting tiles that generate power from joggers in the Paris Marathon. At the same time at the International Space Station, astronauts are installing a brand-new sort of 3D-textured solar cell that will absorb 16 sunups every day.

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UK’s John Anthony Talks Organic Solar Cells and Transistors

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UK's John Anthony Talks Organic Solar Cells and Transistors

John Anthony, the John C. Hubbard Professor of Chemisty, is a pioneer in organic materials—things that are made from carbon instead of silicon. With grants f…

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Tis The Season: 8-Year Old Wins Marshmallow Peeps Diorama Contest With A Model Of The Solar System

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Bonus points for still including Pluto.

This is 8-year old Elenor Clements posing with the marshmallow bunny solar system that earned her first prize in the Peep diorama kid’s category and scored her a big box of candy and Peeps. You can’t beat that deal. You also can’t beat me in horseshoes — my grandpa was the West Virginia state champion, so it’s in my blood. Cooties too. You gotta remember to circle circle dot dot your shit up, kids.

One more shot of Elenor with an equal amount of not-smile after the jump.

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Robots could keep solar panels clean in arid regions, without using water

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Robots could keep solar panels clean in arid regions, without using water
Mirai Machinery and Kagawa University, in Japan, have built a prototype of a self-propelled robot that can cling to the surface of solar panels and clean them, without using any water (which is another benefit, as many PV installations are being put up …
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No more lonely nights: romantic robots get the look of love
Japanese inventors have created a 'female' robot that has the ability to blink, respond to eye contact and can recognize body language, opening the door for a new kind of romantic companion for humans. Geminoid F looks like an everyday Eurasian female; …
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Video: robots paint a giant pyramid at Sony's Xperia Z launch event
I missed it at the time because I was in a ball pit on the other side of the venue, but Sony rigged up some cameras to capture the robots' work as it happened. It's a slightly odd spectacle, but if you enjoy artistic robots painting pyramids, you …
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Microsoft Cash-For-Apps Issues, Amazon $100 Tablet, Nokia Solar Charging & More – Pocketnow Daily

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Stories: – Microsoft Defends Cash-for-Apps Program http://pocketnow.com/2013/03/20/microsoft-cash-for-apps – Amazon Aiming at 0 Price for New 7-Inch Kindl…

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Human civilization reaches beyond the solar system as Voyager 1 enters unknown space

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Even more than 35 years after leaving Planet, experts state the Voyager 1 spacecraft appears to have left our solar system. Astronomers funded by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory today revealed their study, reporting that Voyager 1 measured radical modifications in radiation degrees– an indication that the spacecraft has left the wind of the Sun’s energetic fragments behind, taking a trip into unknown space. In December, scientists noted that Voyager had gotten in the penultimate stretch of its trip to interstellar space: an area called the “magnetic highway.” At the time, NASA predicted that Voyager was anywhere from “a few months to a few years away” from leaving the solar system.

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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: biological concrete, flexible solar cells and the top wearable tech of 2012

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Each week our pals at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech updates for us– it’s the Week in Green.

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New Year’s Eve is rapid approaching, and workers in New york city City are tough at work installing 32,256 LED lights on the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball. As we close the publication on 2012, Inhabitat has actually been reflecting on all the top clean energy and green modern technology tales from the past year. From information that Germany met half the nation’s energy needs with renewable energy to an Egyptian young adult who constructed a brand-new quantum room propulsion system, 2012 was a big year for clean tech. To supplant the New Year we additionally assembled the leading green transportation and wearable innovation posts, and we’re inviting all our visitor to vote on the stories they liked finest!

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