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Solar power for less than $2 a day
Imagine a solar panel as affordable as a fancy new bicycle. A panel designed so simply that you can install one (or more) yourself, just outside your windows, in the course of an afternoon.
That’s the concept behind Oakland, Calif.-based Veranda Solar, a start-up founded last year by Capra J’neva and Emilie Fetscher, recent graduates of the product design program at Stanford University. J’neva and Fetscher dreamed up attractive, flower-shaped solar panels as part of their master’s project at the design school. “We created a starter solar system that expands as your budget does,” J’neva says.
1Apr2009 | ecofriendly | 3 comments | Continued
Newark, DE Becomes First US City to Use Cars for Grid Power
V2G technology works based on the theory that the growing use of unreliable renewable energy sources requires energy storage to smooth power output fluctuations. An electric vehicle can use wind power, for example, to charge at night. The grid operator can then use energy stored in the batteries while the vehicle is plugged in to stabilize the grid.
23Jan2009 | ecofriendly | 0 comments | Continued
electric motors would sometimes overheat if they are not properly ventilated`:* 
i always prefer those wool and cotton baby beddings because they keep the baby warm:*: 
wind farms are great but they also take up a large land area~~, 
i always buy recycled products to reduce the waste materials on this planet.~-~ 
It’s posts like this that keep me coming back and checking this site regularly, thanks for the info! 
Ya! I love neerg, such a great ecofriendly site! 
Renewable energy is the future, why depend on fossil fuels when we can go renewable.`-~ 
Renewable energy is the future, why depend on fossil fuels when we can go renewable.:`; 
Willsie also invented the Photak camera, Chicago Camera Co. One of the first cameras invented for the consumer. 