Tag: solar energy
Will this become Australia’s first road-legal sports car powered entirely by the sun? [VIDEO]
Sunswift, a team of about 50 university students at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), build and race solar cars.
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FORUM VIDEO: Hessex Solutions
Hessex Solutions CEO, Boyd Walan has shared his pitch video in the Anthill GET PITCHING forum. Solar power is a complex issue to explain. In this video, Walan not only successfully explains the current pricing problems facing solar energy solutions, he also elegantly shows how Hessex Solutions has the answer.
Hugh Whalan, 2011 Anthill 30under30 Honourable Mention
Hugh Whalan is bringing clean energy solutions to the developing world. The problem is not that there aren't enough innovative products to aid the poor, says Whalan. It's that supply and distribution challenges make it difficult for those products to ever arrive. Impact Energies was founded to combat these challenges by pairing microfinance with a new model to coordinate product distribution from factories to villages in West Africa.
Meet Energy Matters, Anthill 2010 Cool Company Award Finalist [Big Kahuna Award Finalist]
Energy Matters is one of Australia's leading sellers and installers of sun-borne energy. The company has embraced its role as an online trailblazer, serving as a vocal advocate for renewable-energy legislation and being available when the media needs an expert sound bite. Energy Matters describes itself as "the Fonzie of solar. It doesn’t get much cooler than a company that is helping to cool the globe!" Eyyy!
Silex Systems buys collapsed Solar Systems’ assets, raising solar energy hopes (and many questions)
Plans by Silex Systems Limited to buy the assets of Solar Systems, the Melbourne-based solar energy company that was placed into administration last September, injects life into a cherished plan, but uncertainty persists. Government support is in the offing and, worse for engineers, the technology remains unproven at utility scale.
