I hadn’t heard of the company until Engadget posted a hands-on today either, but it looks like they have a winner on their hands Devotec Industry’s Solar Sound Bluetooth unit is a compact little speaker system that scores on many…
MightyMintyBoost – DIY Solar iPhone/iPod Touch Charger
Here’s a neat Instructables project if you’d like to charge your iPhone or iPod Touch using the sun’s rays (and a little elbow grease). Using an Altoids tin–the modern tinkerer’s mobile enclosure of choice–and roughly $70 in parts, you…
Cleantech News Roundup – Wednesday, July 8
Pickens: World’s Biggest Wind Farm No Longer on Drawing Board – Greentech Media The oil tycoon has scrapped his plans for a 4-gigawatt wind farm in Texas, planning instead to build five or six much smaller wind farms using the…
Cleantech News Roundup – Friday, June 5
Clean Energy Funding Trumps Fossil Fuels – Green Inc. – The New York Times Renewable sources accounted for 56 percent of investment dollars, worth $140 billion, while investment in fossil fuel technologies was $110 billion, the U.N. program said in…
Solar Power 101
Image Credit: sakraft1/Flickr It seems that solar panels are sprouting up all over. It’s all well and good, but how do you get started. The Daily Green has put together a neat guide that demystifies getting solar power generation equipment…
Cleantech News Roundup – Friday, April 24
Five to watch in the Business of Green – Reuters Blogs Lyndon Rive CEO, Solar City Solar City was dubbed “the Swiss arms dealer” of solar installation by VentureBeat, although “Swiss army knife” might be more like it. The company…
Cleantech News Roundup – Friday, April 17, 2009
Sun Catalytix lands funds for “solar fuel” – VentureBeat While little is known about Sun Catalytix’s forthcoming products, its founder, MIT chemistry professor Daniel Nocera, has long been involved in research on hydrogen gas made with only sunlight and water….
