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Wow, the solartaxi is a really nice little thing.

Going 100km per day on the charge from the onboard solar panels and a lot more when charged from the grid. To be fully solar powered the team behind the solartaxi built a solar power plant in Switzerland that feeds electricity to the grid, so that the charging of the solartaxi doesn’t affect the need for coal powered power plants…

Read more at the solartaxi website.

I would like to build a similar thing like this, but more like a streched minivan that two can live in and then travel around the world in a green way.

Solar panels

I read in my newspaper that the local library and two of the schools will be installing solar panels on their roofs. The solar panels (PV panels) will be used to run ventilation and heating and generates per year the same amount of electricity as five regular villas consume. Unfortenatly I can’t find the article online but in my search for that I found another article about the university, LiU.

LiU has had their energy consumption under the magnifying glass for quite some time now. Since 2004 the total energy use for all of campus has been the same, but they have put up new buildings so the total of used energy per square meter has dropped a lot.

Efforts have been made in installing energy efficient lightning and ventilation and the electricity is bought from sustainable sources. As the first university building in the county LiU has installed PV solar panels on the roof of building A. One third is covered and the panels is calculated to leave 50 000kWh per year (meaning up to 20% of the total electricity consumed in a year for that building).