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Snapshots of interesting technologies I found during my industry researches, and I would like to share with you:

SOLight – Sun Path Indicator Mobile Phone App

Anvartec of Austria developed a handy tool for your mobile phone: SOLight - a digital sun path indicator for your mobile phone. A great tool for all people visiting a potential site for solar energ ...
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Innowattech – harvest mechanical energy imparted to roadways

http://youtu.be/AEpjDulKc8s Israeli company Innowatech has developed a new alternative energy system that harvests mechanical energy imparted to roadways, railways and runways f ...
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Scotia SunMast – a revolution in street lighting

Today´s street lighting infrastructure usually consists of a simple mast plus luminaire with an investment cost of X and yearly operating cost of Y for the next 25 years. Or - in many cases, for even ...
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While you’re up, print me a solar cell

New MIT-developed materials make it possible to produce photovoltaic cells on paper or fabric, nearly as simply as printing a document. The sheet of paper looks like any other document that might ...
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Floating Power Plant – Hybrid Wind and Wave Energy System

Danish company "Floating Power Plant" is combining two energy production methods together: wind and wave power. Called Poseidon, they developed a smart concept for a floating power plant that transfor ...
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Sunengy – floating solar concentrators

Sunengy of Australia is developing an interesting approach to produce affordable CPV solar power technology. The idea: reduce system cost by installing the CPV units as a floating device on water. ...
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Wysips – your mobile phone display, a PV cell

According to French manufacturer Wysips, accu chargers of mobile phones, laptops, etc. will soon be a matter of the past. PV-cells can now be integrated into the display of a technical device. Beca ...
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Pythagoras Solar – innovative BIPV

Pythagoras Solar is offering Building Integrated PV-solutions - one of many you could say. The interesting point is the technology, how they integrate the PV units into a glass facade: PV-cells ...
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Deutschland: Solar überholt erstmals Atom

Interessanter Artikel auf www.solarserver.de: In der 12. Kalenderwoche 2011 ist in Deutschland erstmals mehr Solar-Kapazität am Netz als AKW-Leistung. Photovoltaik-Anlagen mit einer Gesamtnennleistun ...
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Solaris Synergy – leveraging water surfaces to generate energy

If you don´t have enough space for your planned PV-plant, or if you are planning to operate it in hot climates, simply put it on water! Israeli based company Solaris Synergy developed a technology ...
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Sharp – Car Batteries as Storage Batteries for Home Power?

Sharp develops intelligent power conditioner that enables electric vehicle batteries to be used as storage batteries for home power. According to a press release, Sharp Corporation has developed th ...
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Quantum Solar – PV without rare elements

Interesting press release of New Mexico based start up Quantum Solar: Quantum Solar Power Corp. ("Quantum") (OTCBB: QSPW) is in the development stages of a solar cell technology that could alter the s ...
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Bloom Energy – promising fuel cell technology

In need of energy for your building? Just put a fuel cell into your backyard! California based company Bloom Energy developed a new class of distributed power generators, based on patented solid oxi ...
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SolarFuel – converting solar energy to natural gas

Who says that renewable energy needs to be stored in batteries? Or in pumped storage power stations? German company SolarFuel developed a smart technology to convert renewable electricity into sy ...
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KiteGen research – the flying power plant

You like Kiting? Well I like it as well. That´s why I got attracted by the vision of the Italian guys of KiteGen - use huge Kites to exploit altitude winds for producing energy: Kites are flying i ...
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Planet Solar – first solar boat expedition around the globe

Get around the globe in a solar powered boat - what a great challenge and a cool project! The boat - MS TÛRANOR PlanetSolar -  was built in Kiel Germany with a huge array of PV cells on deck to ...
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AquaLibre – a swimming small hydroelectric power plant

A simple idea, but innovative technology from Austria: Strom-Boje of AquaLibre! Without a lot of effort, Strom-Boje utilze the power of our rivers. Strom-Boje works without dams or concrete dams ...
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Solyndra – cylindrical PV modules

Solyndra manufactures very innovative solar panels. The clou: the solar module is cylindrically shaped, therefore utilizing not only direct sunlight, but also diffused and reflected sunlight. ...
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Solar Impulse – around the world in a solar airplane

There are not many dreams or black spots left in aviation - but this is one of the last challenges you can find as a pilot: flying with a prob, but powered by the sun! (more...)

Masdar City – an ambitious project in the dessert

Although Masdar City´s ambituous target to become the first 0 carbon & energy indepent city is already discarded as it is currently not realizable with the given technology, the goals for the 4 ...
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