Solar Eclipse Aug 21 2017
It’s showtime! The sun and moon are putting on a spectacle today with an audience of hundreds of millions live viewers – and millions more online and watching the solar […]
Category Archives: Solar energy
Coming this summer: books, museums, cities
Looting the ancient world – cities, sites and tombs are being robbed to fund militants and deliberately destroyed to erase our history Solar projects – follow Impulse 2 (solar […]
Students Build Solar Houses: Stevens Wins!
Students at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken NJ are crowing about their October 18 win at the 2015 US Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon – they won first place […]
University Teams Build Solar Houses
Now underway: The 7th U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is underway in Orange, California, with 16 university/technical school teams from the US, Central America, Singapore, Germany, and Rome that […]
Solar Flight: Around the World
Solar Impulse 2 has landed in Hawaii on the 12th leg of its 35,000 km flight around the world — powered entirely by 70,000 onboard solar cells and manned by […]
Earth Heroes: Next Gen Coming Up
Thousands of students in architecture, engineering, environmental science, health and other fields in the US, Asia, Latin America, Australia, and Europe are going to make a big difference for the […]
Solar Decathlon 2014: The Winners! (news update) Pt. 4
The winners of the 2014 European Solar Decathlon have been announced. Teams from Italy, France and the Netherlands placed one, two, and three in the overall standings from 10 competitive contests. […]
Solar Decathlon 2014: Final Weekend, Watch & Vote
Solar Decathlon Europe 2014: It’s head-to-head this weekend with the World Cup, and it’s a very hot contest for the collegiate teams in the top five slots at the […]
Solar Decathlon 2014: Monitor, View, Vote (Pt 3)
Competition is hot and heavy in Versailles, France, at the 2014 European Solar Decathlon – the 10 juried contests for the student-designed and -built solar-powered houses are underway. News update: two […]
Solar Decathlon 2014: Meet the Teams (Pt 2)
Here’s a preview and updates on the 2014 European Solar Decathlon projects from educational institutions in 16 countries, including several joint projects. They are competing June 28-July 14 in 10 […]
