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Wonderla – Environment friendly

Wonderla has always tried its best to retain and utilize natural resources to the optimum. The company has planted more than 2000 trees in order to develop natural shade in the park. The park also has an extensive rainwater harvesting system that collects even roof rain water for drinking purposes. The rain water is collected [...]

Solar updraft tower – Related and adapted ideas

* The inverse of the solar updraft tower is the downdraft-driven energy tower. Evaporation of sprayed water at the top of the tower would cause a downdraft by cooling the air and driving wind turbines at the bottom of the tower. * The solar chimney could be constructed up a mountainside using inclined terrain for [...]

Cobb Hill – Green Construction

Twenty three households live in tightly clustered houses on that include a working organic, partly horse-powered farm and forest. Another member lives in an 1800s farmhouse on the property. The new homes and common house were built using green building principles – buildings oriented to maximize solar hot water and passive solar heating, very good [...]

Austin Energy – [[Green energy]]

Energy customers can choose to pay a fixed 20 year rate on power obtained from renewable energy sources such as wind power by enrolling in the ”GreenChoice” plan. Austin Energy purchases wind power generated in West Texas and power generated through the burning of landfill gas at landfills in Austin and San Antonio. As part [...]

Electric boat – Introduction

Electric boats were very popular from the 1880s until the 1920s, when the internal combustion engine took dominance. Since the energy crises of the 1970s, interest in this quiet and potentially renewable marine energy source has been increasing steadily again, especially as solar cells became available, for the first time making possible motorboats with an [...]

Multijunction solar cell – Introduction

multi-junction solar cells are currently the most efficient solar cells. Huge efforts have been made to improve the production of renewable energy. One of the most promising technologies is photovoltaic solar panels which convert solar energy into electrical energy. The first solar cell was a c-Si solar cell realised in 1954 by researchers at Bell [...]

Rolf Disch Solar Architecture – Introduction

Rolf Disch Solar Architecture, creators of the Heliotrope as well as several other visionary green building projects, is based in the solar city Freiburg, Germany. Lead by solar pioneer Rolf Disch, who has been building with the sun for more than 40 years, this architecture office’s prolific portfolio also includes such successful projects as the [...]

Martin Green (professor) – Introduction

Martin Green (born 1948) is an Australian professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) who works intensively with the development of the use of solar energy. He was born in Brisbane and was educated at the selective Brisbane State High School, graduated from University of Queensland and completed his PhD on a Commonwealth [...]

Solar chemical – Introduction

Solar chemical refers to a number of possible processes that harness solar energy by absorbing sunlight in a chemical reaction in a way similar to photosynthesis in plants but without using living organisms. No practical process has yet emerged. A promising approach is to use focused sunlight to provide the energy needed to split water [...]

SolarCity – Introduction

SolarCity is a provider of solar energy system design, financing, installation and related services and also builds charging stations for electric vehicles. It is headquartered in Foster City, California, with additional locations in Berkeley, Culver City (Los Angeles), Fresno, Sacramento, San Diego and Santa Ana(Orange County), California; Phoenix, Arizona; Westminster (Denver), Colorado; and Irving (Dallas), [...]

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