Posts Tagged ‘solar powered’

Local library goes solar power

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

Read a notice in the newspaper a while ago that my local library was going to install solar panels on their roof. No numbers was mentioned else than the calculated power generated in a year would be enough to power 5 villas just as long…

Panel showing power generated

Panel showing power generated

Then I visited the library when I worked (furniture delivery) and saw this sign, displaying current generated watts, total kWh today and MWh since installation. When I took this image it was cloudy with a fine rain and they still generated over 8kW!

ECO Power, taxes spent well.

The Solartaxi adventure

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

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.