Fuel Cells Provide Campus Power (from Smarter Technology)

Fuel Cells Provide Campus Power
One of the world's largest fuel cell arrays—2.8 MegaWatts—will be installed in San Diego's Energy Innovation Park at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) campus. FuelCell Energy (Danbury, Conn.) is installing the giant fuel cell capable of powering 2,800 homes—along with two others in the city of San Diego—to provide a renewable store of electricity. In cooperation with the city of San Diego and BioFuels Energy there, the project will turn methane from wastewater into electricity.

Today - Now - Affordable PowerFilm Solar products

I originally wrote about the research that was ongoing in my March 2010 post, about flexible solar panels. Well, you can purchase them now. The company is called PowerFilm Solar (http://www.powerfilmsolar.com ) They have created several product lines of flexible solar films are available now for individual, home, construction and other applications. Here's a link where you can download the
PowerFilm Solar product brochure.

You can even purchase the individual and some of the home products via Amazon! How cool is that? (Thanks Jeff Bezos)

Flexible solar panels open up a lot of possibilities, especially if you're looking to offset your home electricity bill with sun-made power.

What do you think? Is this the beginning of a less-costly entry into truly useful solar power for our lives? Be sure to check out the PowerFilm Solar site, and let me know what you think.