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A new company called Clarian has announced that it will have a plug ‘n’ play home solar kit ready by next spring. The “Sunfish” is essentially a sun visor that you can hang over a sunny, south-facing window.

The device uses the company’s 250 W micro-inverter to feed energy directly into your home through any standard outlet. You plug it into the wall, and in another convenient location you plug in a circuit monitor that uses software to sync the inverter to the monitor, reducing the amount of electricity you pull from the grid.

Forbes.com

Also, from grinzo.com:
“…Oh yeah — cost per unit of energy produced. A quick look at the Clarian web site finds this page with some specs on the panels involved. Said page says:

There will be two sizes of module, 200W and 1,000W.
Expected prices are $799 for the 200W unit…
“… The 200W unit produces 30kWh of energy per month, while the larger model is good for 150kWh/month.
The units will have a “payback in 3-4 years or less”. …”

Great hopes for this technology, here’s to hoping that it comes to fruition and not a research piece that gets shelved.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6228923n&tag=api

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/maggieshiels/2010/02/valley_buzz_energy_nirvana_twe.html

Long video, but great idea! GOes through step by step.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF_mEoFRSAQ&feature=player_embedded#

Montecito, CA – note: sponsored in part by WasteManagement -  A bit of a tangent, but great to see!  Thanks to http://twitter.com/emlink3 !

There’s Treasure in Them Thar Hills…… of Trash! | Greenopolis.

Penn State Live – Video: Natural Fusion, Penn State’s Solar Decathlon Team 2009.

Too big for home installations, but Sopogy’s MicroCSP solar collectors will be used in combination with a thermal air conditioning unit to demonstrate the power of a solar air-conditioning demonstration system. The Solar A/C program is being sponsored by Southern California Gas Co. a subsidiary of Sempra Energy.

More than a zero energy house, much more | NECN.

My morning coffee quick read brought me here – it’s a great place to find videos, information and inspiration for your own green remodeling and alternative energy projects.  Great way to add a little more sit-time without a lot of clicking.

GreenTV – Green Videos, Green News, Going Green & Eco-Friendly Products.

This is a great DIY. It’s green, you can use it to heat (or cool), or water your garden. It’s cheap, green, uses recycled parts – or you can buy shiny new ones if you’d like, I’ve got an itch to go build something to take the water from my cellar (yes, they dug below the waterline – musta been a drought in ’59) and use it to water the garden, make a fountain, cool the house…

“…last season, it hammered over 145,600 gallons of pond water up to our garden over 700 feet away and over 100 feet higher than the pond! In the process, it saved us over 485 liters of diesel fuel we would have normally used to drive our diesel tractor to pump and tow the water around our farm.

The pump was built for about $50 worth of plumbing parts and a bunch of stuff that I had sitting in my scrap pile.
World’s Greenest WATER PUMP.

This is a lonnnngggg video. A polished presentation.