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Pictoral Installs 757 Kilowatt PV Array
Pictorial, a family-owned, New Jersey commercial printer since 1938, is now benefitting from its new solar rooftop. It’s a757 kilowatt photovoltaic array installed by N.J.-based Solis Partners. Printing companies use a fair amount of electricity running printing presses, machine operated cutting machines and more, so it’s no surprise that the system, which covers two-thirds of [...]
The Princeton Satellite Systems’ SunStation EV Charging Station
Solar EV charging stations are hardly new – as regular readers of SolarChargedDriving.Com surely know. But every now and then something comparatively new comes along in the world of solar EV charging. Now is one of those times, at least according to Princeton Satellite Systems, which claims it will soon be producing “the first 100 [...]
Lockheed Martin Working on Solar Generator for Navy
One of the most dangerous situations for the armed forces is simply delivering fuel. It costs lives and adds a significant cost to the fuel itself. So one of the things the armed forces in the U.S. are trying to do is reduce their use of fuel. Lockheed Martin won a contract from the Office [...]
Solar Powered Emergency Shelters from Song Kee Hong
The Haven is a concept emergency shelter that can easily beairlifted to disaster areas or war zones. Designed by Song Kee Hong,Timothy Hoo, Ng Teck Tiong and Felix Lee, the Haven units can beflattened and stacked to ease transportation. The panels of theseshelters are made using plastic sheets that enclose a thin core ofhoneycomb and [...]
The “Double” Solar Powered Cell Phone from ZTE Corporation
Designers at ZTE Corporation have unveiled a new concept cellphone, dubbed the Double, which willnever run out of juice on a sunny day. The concept phone featuresphotovoltaic panels across its entire façade, which harness sunlight torecharge the onboard battery. On the technical specification sheet, the phone will come equippedwith a 360-degree hinge and a 3.2-inch [...]
U.S. Army Testing Solar Powered Tents and Shades
The U.S. Army is testing a host of flexible, portable andlightweight solar-powered shades and tent-like technologies, which havebeen designed to allow units to deploy transferable and exportableelectrical power that can charge batteries, computers and otherelectronic gear without needing a fossil-fuel powered generator. The products are based on the use of flexible photovoltaics toproduce electricity, thus [...]
Solar Powered Air Conditioner from Gree Electric Appliances
China’s Gree Electric Appliances has developed the country’s first solar-powered air-conditioning system that can also send excess electricity to the power grid. The companyhas stated that the first 50,000 units of the air conditioner will besold in the American market, after which the system will be madeavailable for purchase in China. The system, which mainly [...]
Chinese Student Creates Solar Powered Egg House
In an effort to reduce his living expenditure in a city likeBeijing, Daihai Fei, a 24-year-old Chinese student, has started livingin a house that he crafted on a bamboo frame covered with variousinsulating materials topped with a layer of stitched bag. The bags arefilled with sawdust and grass seeds, which the creator waters to enhance [...]
The Solar Powered Water Collector and Purifier Concept
With more than a billion people on our planet still striving hardfor fresh water, industrial designers have started thinking of new waysto quench the thirst of these individuals using natural resources.Designers Chun Yen Tsao and Hsing-Tan Yang have created a concept watercollector and purifier that works using solar energy and can one dayhelp provide safe [...]