Solar
News about solar energy, and how to buy and install your own panels.
Berkeley playhouse goes off-grid
San Francisco theater company switches to natural energy...
Economics of going solar
How to decide whether solar makes financial sense...
emPowering Africa
Prototype for future solar energy programs.Local action brings renewables to poorest parts....
G24 solar to help world’s poor
UK company announce a low-cost, non silicon-based solar panel will be available early next year....
Silicon Valley becomes Solar Valley
How the tech bubble people are now rushing to become the solar valley people....
Don’t bother with solar backpacks
Solar panels embedded in bags and briefcases, just don’t do a very good job yet....
Germany tops world solar league
Germany has 200 times the installed solar capacity of Great Britain. Its all because they buy solar electricity at a sensible rate....
MIT does zero-carbon home
Early sketch of MIT’s Solar 7 Members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Solar Decathlon team head out for Washington, D.C. next week taking wit...
Home Depot’s solar deal spurned on net.
Reputational issues BP Solar this week tried to take us a step closer to mass-market off-grid living. The solar energy giant announced the availability of its h...
Solar Decathlon
Last year’s battle Teams from 20 universities have spent the summer building enough homes for an entire solar village. The off-grid, self-powering homes w...
Amish embrace solar to stay off-grid
Amish reject tying into the public electric grid, but happy to use solar power for home comforts....