Science

These Hornets Have Solar Powered Bodies

Solar power is always pretty exciting as it reaches more and more places in our lives—a future without fossil fules! But what if solar power also means getting stung more? Take oriental hornets—buzzing around with built-in solar panelsehugger.com/files/2010/12/oriental-hornets-literally-solar-powered.php.


June 20, 2010
Science

A Traditional Terracotta Roof That Happens To Harness The Sun

There are plenty of technical hurdles keeping the masses from decking out their roofs with solar panels, but their general ugliness doesn’t help much either. Tegolasolare puts their photovoltaic panels second to the surrounding architecture, not the other way around.


May 23, 2010

Solar Powered Transforming Robot Teaches Your Kids The Important Stuff

Namely: the awesomeness of robots. Secondarily: the joys of sustainable energy. The £13.00 T3 Solar Robot/Tank/Scorpion will help impart both of these lessons, guiding your child to a promising future as a sun-harnessing super-scientist (or a robot army-commanding supervillain.) [Red5]