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Toyota solves the micro-greenhouse effect of the sun heating a parked car, in the Prius III. The car features optional solar modules that keep the car cool when parked.
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Silicon Solar has a wider selection of Portable Solar Power Systems than we’d recalled, including some, like the flexible (in fact, rollable) panels pictured below, which are presumably fairly robust. We’re not sure which models/systems can be daisy-chained – one of the principal virtues of the Solar Stik system. We hope to be able to [...]
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of the Creative Synthesis Collaborative posted this on June 2nd: Massachusetts-based Voltree Power is currently developing a network of sensor nodes that will monitor forest conditions and immediately alert users to wildfires. The system, the Early Wildfire Alert Network (EWAN), resembles other efforts to create decentralized monitoring networks. The network tracks humidity, air temperature, and [...]
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