How to have 24,000 sq. feet of lighted display at no energy cost

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The largest color LED display worldwide, & the first photo-voltaic system integrated into a glass curtain wall in China. the display requires zero external energy, as the facade harvests solar energy by day & uses it to illuminate the screen after dark. the display comprises of 2,292 color (RGB) LED’s light points comparable to a 24,000 sq. ft. (2.200 m2) monitor screen for dynamic content display.

The polycrystalline photovoltaic cells are laminated within the glass of the curtain wall & placed with changing density on the entire building’s skin. the density pattern increases building’s performance, allowing natural light when required by interior program, while reducing heat gain & transforming excessive solar radiation into energy for the media wall.

You can play with the online simulator, or watch a movie (click on "Specials".

Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis

In this video, Al Gore

"presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of "generational mission" -- the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement -- to set it right. Gore's stirring presentation is followed by a brief Q&A in which he is asked for his verdict on the current political candidates' climate policies and on what role he himself might play in future."

"How many generations in all of human history have had the opportunity to rise to a challenge that is worthy of our best efforts? a challenge that can pull from us more than we knew we could do? ...we are the generation...about which it will be said in 1000 years, that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the foundations for a bright and optimistic future."

Some of the slides can be seen here at Duarte Design's site.

Start page for wind energy

Here's an Odysen start page for wind energy, the fastest growing renewable energy technology. The page includes:

* Photos from Flickr sorted by most interesting.
* News search widget using the keyword wind energy.
* Website bookmarker widget with links to various wind organizations and manufacturers.
* Amazon book search for wind energy.
* Ebay search for wind turbines for sale.
* YouTube videos of wind turbines. for wind energy, the fastest growing renewable energy technology.

Reposted from the Odysen blog

New Light Bulbs

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"Switching the types of light bulbs we use at home is a small but
impactful way for nearly everyone to save money and help reduce
pollution. We made this video because compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs make sense and we want people to make the switch." - Common Craft

Length: 3:00

Please feel free to share this video. You can email it to someone here, or grab the code for your website on You Tube and Blip.tv (where you can also download the original file.)

Intel: The Journey Inside

What do you know about electricity? Go to this page and do all the lessons - watch the videos and use the Flash animations to "do" experiments.





photo by laimagendelmundo

A new solar energy collector

A young hi-tech company in California was spotlighted on the Discovery Channel in this video investigating a new kind of solar collector.

What is Solar Energy?

Watch this short video which explains what solar energy is, and how we can capture it.