New Strip Coating Could Mitigate Snow Piling

A team of researchers from the University of Toledo has reportedly developed a strip coating that causes accumulated snow to slide off solar panels without interfering with their efficiency.

Researchers Develop 'Self-Healing' Solar Coating

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhilai have reportedly developed a new formulation for a “self-healing” polymeric coating for solar cells, demonstrating the ability t...

Researchers Studying Effects of Permeable Pavement

A team at the University of Texas at San Antonio is reportedly researching the impact of four new “permeable parking lots” that were installed at the 204-acre Classen-Steubing Ranch Park in ...

Inventive Reuse: One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s…House?

by Pamela Simmons

Anyone who appreciates a good beer now and then knows that it can taste like heaven, ...

Solar Paint? There’s a Ton of Energy Going into the Idea

by Harold Hower

In this blog I like to talk technology—the kind that’s on the fringe of practical app...

A team from the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur developed a new coating technology that can do what for solar panel surfaces?

True or False: An 870-acre wind-powered farm in Fort Myers, Florida, reportedly faced minimal damage following Hurricane Ian.

Developers in Massachusetts plan to install solar panels designed to float in human-made bodies of water to address concerns regarding space for clean energy development. Do you believe this space solution could be used elsewhere?

Tesla Energy, along with Brookfield Asset Management Inc. and Dacra, announced a new initiative for the first Tesla Solar neighborhood, a sustainable residential community. The project’s goal is to create an energy-neutral, solar-based community that can be a blueprint for large-scale housing projects internationally. Do you believe this initiative will be successful?

Corrosive Soils and Risk Mitigation for Solar Structures

from JPCL, February 2019 ; by Paul Trautmann and Matthew Markowski, The Sherwin-Williams Company; and Brien Clark, James Keegan and Mersedeh AkHoondan, HDR

Locations for utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) solar construction projects do not alwa...

Dynamic Architectural Facades Combine Inventive Form and Function

from D+D In Depth, April 2017 ; by BILLY ROSBOTTOM, STO CORP.

Some architecture strives to create harmony between nature and the built world, but t...

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Architectural Coatings: A PaintSquare Video Education Series

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