Steam rises from the never-ending stretch of road ahead. What looks like water rolling over the street, is just heat escaping. Walking on the blacktop barefoot would leave anyone but a fire-walker grunting in pain.
Our planet is covered with a web of streets and this cement absorbs and stores an abundance of the sun’s energy. [...]

Posts Tagged ‘electricity’
Streets for Solar
Burn Calories for Electricity
With the 2008 Olympics going on, we are bombarded with images of rippling muscles pushed to their limit by men and women in peak physical condition. Most of these champions spend hours a day at the gym, burning up to 5000 calories during a workout. Most people have had a gym membership at one time [...]
Innovalight-Absorbing Light with Liquid Silicon
Innovalight is getting a lot of attention: Time Magazine, The Economist, and Red Herring have all profiled this Santa Clara based company, while the department of energy has awarded them a fortune to assist with Innovalight’s unique solar panel development process.
Numerous photovoltaic companies have been covered by EcoWorld and solar power has raised the eyebrows [...]
Airtricity-”Building a More Powerful Europe” with Wind Farms
Machines driven by wind are nothing new: Windmills date back to as far as 200 B.C where Persian farmers used these mesmerizing contraptions for grinding grains. Windmills are still popular today, especially in Europe where it is impossible not to see a windmill when touring areas like Denmark. Wind energy has been manipulated for centuries [...]
Soliant Energy, Inc.- Another Reason to Switch to Photovoltaics
Ecoworld has repeatedly focused on the benefits of solar energy - It is taking advantage of a renewable resource, getting cheaper every year, has basically no maintenance costs associated with it and even better; the excess power generated by these panels can be sold back to the local power grid! The concept is simple: The [...]
Wave Energy Technologies
Nothing compares to the power of the ocean. It is no wonder that the frothing waters of the seas slamming against cliffs invoke nothing but respect. Anyone who has swum amongst the waves only to be thrown back onto the shore knows how useless it is to fight against a current. Enormous waves have battled [...]


















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