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Radio Shines With Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

In a perfect world, we would slowly wean ourselves off fossil fuels and embrace green technology. The thing is that it's hard to let go of them when we can't find green alternatives that provide as mu...

Experiments With Consumer-Level Solar

Recently, consumer-level solar energy for the home has been gaining more steam. In Austin, folks are moving beyond public solar art and are harnessing the sun's energy for their homes. If you're hopin...

RoofRay Helps Estimates Your Solar Potential

Your mom always told you were full of potential, didn't she? But saying and knowing are two different things, and that's especially the case when you're considering adding solar panels to harness the ...

DIY Solar Boombox

A solar boombox: because you want to listen to music in the park without purchasing expensive batteries that are bad for the environment; because you don't want to run a cord into your yard while yo...

Look! Solar Panels Powered Home Theater

Seeing as one of the most power-vampiric entities is your from the home theater system, the team at Home Theater Specialists of America (HTSA) has done the good deed and created a system that's the fi...

Solar Powered Cell Phones: Sustainable Phones for the Future?

Until solar panels are harnessing a lot more power out of the sun, electricity will always be a precious commodity. Solar energy is a way to take things out of the hands of the Man and back into yours...