Showing posts with label western. Show all posts
Showing posts with label western. Show all posts

Sunday, September 8, 2013

GoSun Stove: Portable, High-Efficiency Solar Cooker



      Solar energy expert and Cincinnati, Ohio native Patrick Sherwin, realized an innovation that he created one day while removing some solar collectors from a client's roof. In the 10 years since Sherwin removed those solar collectors from a client's roof, he's been working on perfecting the art of solar cooking. On September 5th, he had launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to mass-produce his GoSun Stove, a compact $279 solar cooker that he hopes could not just change the way the Western civilization uses and looks at sources of renewable energy, but also impact the entire world.
        The Kickstarter campaign, which had raised more than 1/4 of its $40,000 goal within the first 10 hours of its launch, is being used as a means for Sherwin and his team to raise funds for marketing, equipment and manufacturing and other programs to bring the invention to developing countries in need of less dangerous and time consuming ways to cook food.


Thursday, May 2, 2013

A Solar Power Plant at an Airport

      A unit of a Japanese refiner, Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. (5002), and Development Bank of Japan will be constructing a solar power station with New Kansai International Airport Co. The station at Kansai International Airport near Osaka in western Japan is claimed to have 11.6 megawatts in capacity and is expected to start running early next year, the companies stated in an announcement on April 23, 2013.
       This is the first project of a venture between Showa Shell's Solar Frontier K.K. and DBJ, set up in January to invest in solar projects in Japan, according to the statement. "Solar Frontier will be supplying solar panels and operation and maintenance services while DBJ will be supporting financial structuring for the project," the companies had said. Airport land and buildings for the project will be provided by New Kansai.

Visual mock-up of KIX MegaSolar

For more details, visit here.