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Entries Tagged as 'Solar power'

Peel and stick solar panels help bring installation cost down.

May 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Alternate Energy, GreenTech, Solar power

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The amount of active innovation in the green energy sector is amazing to me. This product is making its way all over the web and blogosphere, but I thought it worth a discussion here. Lumeta (a subsidiary [...]

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Konarka uses inkjets to print solar film

May 5th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Alternate Energy, Environment, Going Green, Solar power

In 2005, Popular Mechanics gave Konarka Technologies an award for being one of the years top innovators. Konarka Technologies was honored by PM for its flexible solar film called Power Plastic. At that time they were manufacturing Power Plastic through proprietary means of printing. In March 2008 though they announced that they [...]

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Jay Leno’s green garage

May 3rd, 2008 · 4 Comments · Alternate Energy, Environment, Going Green, GreenTech, Solar power, Transportation

Jay Leno’s green renovation of his garage has come a long way. He’s added some new parts washers, replaced some aerosol cans and big solar array. Leno even talks about adding more solar panels even though he generates more power then the garage needs to operate during the day.

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Norway using green living to rehabilitate prisoners

April 27th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Alternate Energy, Environment, Going Green, Solar power

I hope you take the time to watch the video above it is a great look into a successful program going on in Norway to reconnect inmates with life and respect. The prison governor is a very intelligent man and realized if you give the prisoners a good way to earn respect and treat [...]

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The EcoInsomniac is now hosted with 100% solar power.

April 5th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Environment, GreenTech, Solar power

In case you hadn’t noticed the brief, but longer then expected downtime last week. We have moved from a good friends web hosting company to Aiso.net a 100% solar powered eco-friendly web hosting company. The move went pretty flawlessly there has been quite a bit of learning to function with out certain geeky [...]

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