Visit the One Fridge Off The Grid booth, see the project first hand, and talk to the inventor. All parts needed to build the off-grid solar generator will be on display. Celebrate nature, art, music, and community at Pasadena’s 12th annual Earth…
The new solar airplane Solar Impulse 2 of the Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg is ready. After about three years of construction it was presented in the Swiss town Payerne. After a testing phase it will start its several…
A European union promoted research project wants to make renewable energy sources better usable for data centers and beyond: GreenDataNet looks for affordable solutions to store electricity with higher efficiency. The project is working to reduce the environmental impact of the data explosion. The GreenDataNet consortium is…
Proposal to reduce the carbon (CO2) footprint by focusing on a few common household appliances (click to view full size) An estimated 100 million refrigerators, internet modems, and laptops are running mostly on fossil fuel for 24 hours every day…
No more doubts! It CAN be done! Decentralization of energy is valid and will work when we just change our attitudes, put our heads together and move forward. Need proof? Read on… “Regardless of debate about the success of Germany’s…
My favorite tech magazine is Heise.de, but sorry – no english here. The title of a recent article reads: “Balkonkraftwerke” – which means “a power plant on a balcony“. Amazing how easily you can glue German words together. The subtitle…
Distributed is the key phrase for the future generation of the electricity grid. Unfortunately the electricity providers are facing the biggest problem since their formation and they are trapped between becoming obsolete on the one hand and slowing renewable energy growth…
Batteries with high capacity and a long live are the necessary fundaments for the future of distributed power grids. Storing renewable energy is an essential part because the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing 24 hours…
Today another big milestone of the project has been reached: I received the final PCB layout and routing for my solar UPS controller! Below is a 3D rendering of the front side of the PCB which shows most of the digital…
We need lots of crazy ideas to solve our global energy problem. Lowering CO2 emissions is mandatory to reach a sustainable level in energy production where even our grandchildren find a habitable planet to live on. A good example for…