If you’ve been researching green building, LEED®, or any other environmentally motivated subject, you will have noticed that green building isn’t just in what and how you build. It also has a lot to do with green living. For the average person in the US, green living means recycling your newspapers and maybe driving a [...]
From the monthly archives:
February 2009
Printable solar cells have long been a dream of the renewable energy crowd. Just the thought of being able to slap some paper in your inkjet and run off a few hundred solar cells makes even the person with an average interest in “going green” take notice. While the specialty materials aren’t available to the [...]
Sustainable solar thermal energy, or Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), is the concept of taking light from the sun, focusing or concentrating the light, and using the heat energy given off to generate a useable source of energy. Although there are many advancements in the works for this technology, like Parabolic Trough Thermal Energy Storage, today [...]

