Apple’s 20 megawatt solar farm
This solar farm being built next to Apple’s data center in North Carolina, will provide the center with the majority of its power.
A’ Design Award winners 2012
A’ Design Award and Competition aims to highlight the excellent qualifications of best designs, design concepts and design oriented products around the globe. 2011 – 2012, Platinum A’ - Vertical + Horizontal Farm Tower Farming and Crop Distribution Tower by Kevin Chu
Japan’s largest solar farm in Kagoshima
Kyocera announced that it will partner with two other companies to build Japan’s largest solar farm in Kagoshima City on the southwestern island of Kyushu.
Big Five and twilight arch
The photo above shows a gathering of planets and the waning crescent Moon as captured from Tivoli, Namibia in Africa, just before dawn on May 30, 2011. The “Big Five” in Africa refers to the top five big game animals; lion, leopard, rhinoceros, Cape buffalo, and elephant. Photographer: Eduard von Bergen.
Lop Nur, Taklimakan Desert
The teal and green rectangular form in this area is a field of salt pans. While the desert in the basin by the salt evaporation pans and lake bed appears mostly flat, many high vertical rows of sand dunes can be observed to the south.
Solar Wind’s new green design for the bridges
Solar Wind is an innovative and astonishing design conceived by Italian designers Francesco Colarossi, Giovanna Saracino and Luisa Saracino.
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Serpents in Paradise- Freeways with Solar Panels
In the eyes of Swedish architect and urban strategist Mans Tham, the stretch of I-10 known as the Santa Monica Freeway is an achievement to be celebrated, revered and covered in so many solar panels that it looks like a massive snake.
Solar Collectors covering 0.3 percent of Sahara could power all of Europe
The Desertec Foundation, a Jordanian and German company are they have a radically ambitious project to harness solar energy in the world’s most barren, sun-drenched expanse, the Sahara Desert. Desertec claims that if only 0.3 percent of the expanse of the Sahara was covered with solar panels, it would power the entire European continent.
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SunEdison to build the largest photovoltaic power plant, in Italy
Europe’s largest photovoltaic power plant will be build by SunEdison, in Italy, in March this year. The solar power plant will generate about 70MW of power, enough to power 17,000 homes.
Google invests in green power sources
Google is extending its investment in green technology with a $5bn (£3.2bn) programme to build an undersea, wind energy transmission backbone along 350 miles of the Atlantic seaboard.
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