Giants Delivered A Solar-Powered World Series

The San Francisco Giants are one of the first teams in the country to play in a stadium partially powered by renewable energy.

When Game 1 of the World Series started in San Francisco’s AT&T Park, the hometown Giants took the field in a stadium that boasts solar panels and was recognized in April for energy efficiency and sustainability by the U.S. Green Building Council. Their opponents, the Texas Rangers, regularly recycle everything from infield grass clippings to cardboard and office paper, according to MLB.com.

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Help Your Neighborhood Go Solar

Everyone want to add solar panels to their house but they are too expensive for many families. 1 Block Off the Grid (1BOG) is helping people like Michael Martinez use group purchasing power to reduce these costs, assisting neighborhoods all across the US to band together and go solar.

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23 yr old Invents Solar Fridge

Proving once again that the best ideas are often the simplest, 23-year-old student/inventor/entrepreneur Emily Cummins has designed a brilliant portable solar-powered refrigerator that works based upon the principle of evaporation. Employing a combination of conduction and convection, the refrigerator requires no electricity and can be made from commonly available materials like cardboard, sand, and recycled metal.

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Solar Glass Tile Roof by SolTech Energy

SolTech Energy makes an innovative roof tile that harvests solar energy with a traditional looking glass tile. The glass tile is heated by the sun and redirected for use by the central heating system. The system works with air-based and water-based heating systems, including, for example, a ground source heat pump, air heat pump, pellet boiler, oil boiler, or electric boiler.

SolTech Energy expects to bring the system to market in the U.S. sometime in 2011.

The system has a natural aversion to snow, what with the shiny tile surface and heat reflected from an absorption fabric below the tile. The tiles are UV resistant and last longer than conventional clay or concrete roof tiles.

Read full article:
http://www.jetsongreen.com/2010/10/glass-tile-rooftop-solar-by-soltech.html

Technical details of how the system is installed:
http://www.soltechenergy.com/en/index.php/house-owners/installing-the-soltech-system/

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Strip Mine to be Transformed into Solar Farm

Governor Ted Strickland of Ohio announced an agreement to create a huge solar energy field at an old strip-mine adjacent to a nature conservation site.

Approximately 300 jobs will be created to build the solar project, known as “Turning Point Solar”. In addition, Prius and Isofoton the solar companies providing the panels, have agreed to locate their North American operations in Ohio, creating an additional 300+ permanent manufacturing jobs.

Turning Point will have a total of 239,400 panels. If operating today, this project would be the largest photovoltaic solar array in the United States.

Woo Hoo!! This is such a hopeful sign. As I watch all the ads about Prop 23,it will be nice to think of this project and take hope that many folks are trying to do the right thing when it comes to renewable energy. Go Ohio.

Go California - No on 23

Read Full Story here:
http://www.solardaily.com/reports/Transformative_Solar_Array_To_Be_Developed_On_Reclaimed_Ohio_Strip_Mine_999.html

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Solar-Powered Hearing Aid Brings Jobs to Deaf People, Sound to Disadvantaged

This is a heart warming story about a technology that makes sense on so many levels. The hearing aid can be charged by solar power. The cost is $100 and deaf folks are employed to make the device.

As someone who is loosing my hearing, I hope this technology can come to America soon.

Watch a video about the product and the inventor Harold Weinstein

 Read the story here:
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tech-transport/solar-powered-hearing-aid.html

Visit the solar ear website:
http://www.solarear.com.br/solar/index.php

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