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Solar City Teams Up With Tesla for Solar-Powered Sports Car Driving

One of the problems we can see with the Tesla Roadster is that you still have to suck up pollution-causing power to run the thing, even though it doesn't directly pollute the air with noxious internal combustion engine fumes. Now Solar City has teamed up with Tesla to provide solar panels that you install on the roof of your house, and then those panels feed power to the outlet for the Tesla Roadster. So now you can go from 0-60 in 4 seconds, guilt- and gasoline-free. More »

1:20 PM on Fri Dec 7 2007
By Charlie White
7,824 views, 24 comments

Latest by borjo: erh.. i live in Greece where sun is plentiful, but even here i don't think the sunshine here is enough to power heating and cooking. let alone power a car too. certainly not in the winter. perhaps not even on the more »

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Power House Kit: Your Action Figures Are Going Green

It is high-time that your Star Wars figures, GI Joes and Barbies woke up from their fantasy worlds and realized that in the real world, there are limits to the power we can consume. The first step in their education would be to move into one of these Power Houses and learn what life would be like without fossil fuels. With each kit you can build a small model house complete with solar panels, a windmill, greenhouse and a desalination system—but the lesson in sustainable living does not end there. More »

7:00 PM on Tue Dec 4 2007
By Sean Fallon
2,534 views, 7 comments

Latest by thepounder: Forget the kids/teens... I'd buy this for myself and have a blast building it. At that cost, it's not really for the kids anyhow. more »

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Zero House From the Future is Totally Green, Off-Grid

Not only is this Zero House by architect Scott Specht completely green, automatic and self-sufficient, but it looks so badass it could've come out of the movie Clockwork Orange. That extra wide roof holds a slew of high-efficiency solar panels that let you say goodbye to electric bills, powering the whole house and storing up enough extra energy in its batteries to keep everything running for a week, even if every single day is cloudy. That's just the beginning. More »

9:31 AM on Tue Nov 13 2007
By Charlie White
21,716 views, 55 comments

Latest by n/a: There are some good ideas expressed in the design but the idea of all the weight of the water serving to push the water through the pipes makes it obvious that the architect slept through Physics 101. The shower would more »