The product of an environmentally friendly project for Palestinian engineering students, the car is bedecked with banks of solar panels and doesn’t manage to reach a speed much above 19mph (30kph) – but it is being lauded as a feat of creative engineering in the face of limited funds and scant resources.
“It was a complicated project and our students designed and built everything in this car from scratch,” says Dr Zahdi Salhab, director of the mechanical engineering department at Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron. Read the rest of this entry »

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The following article featured in the Guardian newspaper, 9 May 2009

We live in an old terraced house on a cloudy, rainy island. Yet the solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on our roof, put up two years ago, are supplying around 90% of all the electricity used by my family.

The initial cost is high, but don’t let that put you off. Two key developments in recent months have made it worth considering solar PV panels.

One is that a government incentive for PV doubled on 1 April and the other is that interest rates on many savings accounts have dropped to about 0.1%, meaning it is time your money worked harder. Read the rest of this entry »

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Have you considered how they make solar panels?

Well here’s a video explaining how:

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We stock some really great gadgets that you’ll definitely want to take with you to the summer festivals. These gadgets are so cool they’ll make your friends (eco)green with envy:

Wind Up Radio for times when you want to chill in your tent or worse, when its raining.
Wind Up Shaver so you won’t look like a caveman!
Wind Up Headlamps are really useful if you need to do something with your hands whilst in the dark. Rolling something perhaps

There’s nothing worse than your mobile phone battery dying on you when you really need to find out where to meet your mates. Especially when you’re stood with 50,000 people in a field. Get yourself a Solar Mobile Charger and keep all you mates phoned charged up. They’ll love you for it. Read the rest of this entry »

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•    Light travels from the sun to the earth in 8 minutes and 17 seconds.
•    The sun will have used all its energy up in 5 billion years.
•    In 1767, Horace de Saussure, a Swiss scientist, invented the world’s first solar energy collector, otherwise known as a ‘hot box’
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