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- Wooden and glass Seine Musicale powered by moving solar sailShigeru Ban is perhaps best known for his use of paper and cardboard in architecture, but he is also not averse to using wood.…
- The Solar Highway“Make no little plans”, said Daniel Burnham, the mastermind of the 1893 world’s fair in Chicago. American designers have a penchant for big ideas.…
- The world’s first self-charging solar cargo e-bikeDutch company Need The Globe (NTG) developed what they say is the first-ever solar cargo e-bike, called SunRider. The cargo bike was developed as…
- Wattway: a solar road to clean energy in NormandyAn average road is used only about ten per cent of the time, which means that ninety per cent of the time, it is…
- Fastned’s Solar Trees: Nature-Inspired Infrastructure for EV ChargingFastned’s Solar Trees redefine the electric vehicle (EV) charging experience by combining functionality with nature-inspired architecture. Each station features a timber structure with a…
- Electricity-generating and CO2-absorbing bio-panelsMexican start-up Greenfluidics developed a solar bio-panel that integrates CO2 capturing, the production of oxygen, and the production of energy through the use of…
- Solar GlassblockSBskin developed and patented a series of novel glassblock configurations with the aim of optimizing their energy performance. These photovoltaic and highly insulating glassblocks are integrated with third generation solar cells (DSCs) and suitable for outside installations (roofs and facades).
- Transparent Solar Cells Move Closer To Commercial RealityResearchers at Hong Kong Polytechnic University have achieved a record light utilisation efficiency (LUE) of 6.05% with semi-transparent organic photovoltaics (ST-OPVs). This milestone brings…
- Passive Hydrogel Panel Extracts Drinking Water from Air — Even in DesertsMIT engineers have created a compact, window-sized device that passively extracts clean drinking water from the air — even in places as dry as…
- Solar and wind energy generated by fabricCharging your phone because the wind makes your curtains move, generating electricity. Today, it is possible. Not one, but two separate research groups have…
- Turning CO₂ into Solar Fuels: New Material Breakthroughs with Design PotentialResearchers at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), working with Stanford University, Antwerp University and Hasselt University, have achieved an important step in the development…
- Curved PanelsArchitectural mesh systems for a wide range of applications, both interior and exterior.
- Reinier Bosch – Creating a new material language for solar facadesReinier studied at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. His work is internationally known and awarded for his groundbreaking vision and projects. In 2016 Reinier…
- Solar Balloons Harvest Energy Above the CloudsElectro-chemist Jean-Francois Guillemoles is looking above the clouds with his concept for floating solar balloons. The invention, which would be able to store energy as well…
