Solarion: Sustainable Development

Sunday, May 04, 2008

Solar Powered Display Wall, GreenPix At Bejing Olympics 2008

GreenPix is a project bringing together sustainable energy technology and digital media technology to meet the presentation needs of art and other media. It is the largest color LED display in the world and will be the curtain wall of Xicui entertainment complex in Beijing, near the site of the 2008 Olympic Games.
The wall performs as a self-sufficient organic system, harvesting solar energy by day and using it to illuminate the screen after dark, mirroring a day’s climatic cycle

More information about the project is available at the GreenPix website. They also has a simulator application that mimics the operation of the display and it's application.

Friday, October 27, 2006

Solar Power need no pushing, it will pick up speed naturally....

According to Author, fund manager, and former corporate buyout expert Travis Bradford in "Solar Revolution."
The president and founder of the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development in Cambridge, Mass., says we are on the doorstep of the solar era. He's not forecasting something that will occur in the next century. Bradford offers the evidence of a trend that is well under way and that will gain relentless momentum within the next two decades.

I came across the news on Plenty Magazine (How to go green), which I started reading from Issue 5, Which is now available in digital format. Go register and you will learn a lot. The article was "Lighten Up" by Trevor Stokes. it is an interview with Travis Bradford.

Plenty: Why do you think solar energy will be part of the solution to today’s energy crisis?

Bradford: The answer to that is very simple: Today solar energy costs 10 percent of what it did to install in the mid- to late-1970s. The products have gotten more mature; the efficiencies have improved; the costs have come down—all using the exact same photovoltaic technologies. The more we make, the cheaper it gets. We’ve entered a phase where it’s cheap enough to install the technology in lots of places; every time we install more it gets cheaper.

Read the rest of the article at Plenty.