Even your pool can become solarized with these beautiful solar powered lights.

The easy way to solar power your house. Get the book.

The competition is on and there’s nothing in it for the winner but fame. The solar houses are being built by university students – 20 teams of them which need to be able to power cars, refridgerators, heaters and electric appliances. See the wundava here

The Casa Solar picutred here is part of the project organized by the Department of Energy of the USA .

Who knows what will come out of it, perhaps a new home idea for one of our pals.

Ted Sargent is a nontechnologist, boy wonder. Only 30 years old. One day he accidentally invents “quantam dots” which are tiny crystals, that can be used in solar panels, so tiny they can be painted onto things. Sargent imagines clothing that could be used to charge cell phones and laptops, solar building materials that could provide all the electricity needed in the home, and electric cars powered by a solar cell on the roof. Wow! This is cool stuff.

Essentially what it means is that instead of huge, expensive solar panels, we would actaully wear the clothing as we walk around charing our cell phones, or well, for that matter, how bout a cell phone that charges itself? Beam me up Scotty!