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The University of Minnesota’s Solar Car
The University ofMinnesota’s Solar Vehicle Project teamhas unveiled their new solar-powered car for the 2010 American SolarChallenge. Dubbed Centaurus 2, the vehicle will take part in the 1100mile race from Tulsa, Okla. to Chicago. The team is one of the 18 teams participating in the challenge. Thecar is a completely new generation design from the [...]
Green Sun Rising Designing Solar Thermal System At Mich. University
Green Sun Rising, a Windsor, Ontario-based provider of residential and commercial solar thermal systems, has formeda partnership with Oakland University in Rochester, Mich. Green SunRising’s president, Klaus Dohring, signed on as design consultant forthe university’s planned large-scale solar thermal system. GreenSun Rising will consult and assist in the custom design of a solarthermal system for [...]
Advanced Energy signs PV solar service agreement for Colorado State University’s 2 MW solar plant
Advanced Energy Industries Inc. announced that AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has engaged Advanced Energy for a multi-year agreement to provide SiteGuard services for Colorado State University’s new, two megawatt photovoltaic solar power plant located in Fort Collins, Colorado. The new solar facility started producing power in early December and is expected [...]
University of South Australia’s Trev to Travel World on Solar
A team from the University of South Australia is preparing a solar-powered car to participate in the first zero-emission car race around the world. The racewill commence in June where the competing teams will make use ofrenewable energy to cross 20 countries on three continents in about 80days. The vehicle, dubbed Trev(Two-seater Renewable Energy Vehicle), [...]
University of Nottingham Design Solar ‘HOUSE’
Students from the University of Nottinghamhave designed the UK’s first zero carbon mass market home that can bepowered entirely by solar energy. Dubbed the HOUSE (Home Optimizing theUse of Solar Energy), it is a full-scale zero carbon starter home thatrequires no form of active heating. The HOUSEcomplies with Level 6 of the UK’s Code For [...]
University Campus in Tripoli To Be Powered By Solar Energy
Construction on University Zuwarah Technological Campus is underway with the Libyan government giving BRUESA and IADthe final go-ahead. Planning and construction of the campus along withits 13 buildings is expected to be completed with the help of ARUP within three years. Thedesign development will be lead by IAD and headed by Cottrell &Michelangeli. The developers [...]
University of Arizona’s New Solar Device Makes Solar Inexpensive
Inan effort to lower the cost of renewable energy and make it availableat the price of conventional sources of energy, inventor Roger Angel atthe University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory Mirror Labhas produced the first prototype of a solar device that couldeventually produce energy from the sun at a price rivaling the energyproduced from conventional sources. [...]
Tel Aviv University Develops Self Cleaning Solar Panels and Windows
Researchers at the Tel Aviv Universityare confident that their newest research in nanotechnology could putwindow washers out of work and lead to the development of a new type ofglass and solar panels that need no cleaning. The technology comes withthe development of arrays of self-assembling peptide nanotubes thathave more uses than one. A very short [...]
University of NSW’s Solar Car
With just days left before the Global Green Challenge commences to decide who’s got the best solar-powered vehicle, the University of New South Wales thinks that its Sunswift IV has got everything it needs to emerge as the winner. Thecar, better known as IVy, was built over an 18-month period by about 60team members who [...]