Powerbrella

The Powerbrella is a patio umbrella that has solar panels on its top surface. While you relax in the shade, it uses the sun's rays to provide power for outlets in its base.

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Solar Kiosk Charging Station

The idea is to provide a place for electric vehicles to charge up (in this case, eight of them), giving commuters another option than the outlet at home. It also benefits from the fact that it wouldn't require a lot of infrastructure to be installed, as a city-wide smart grid would.

Source: http://dvice.com/archives/2009/09/this-solar-kios.php

Solar Car Port

Japan-based Sankyo Tateyama Aluminium has begun selling carports [JP] with solar power generation systems installed on their tops.

Transparent plastic solar cells

Solar company Konarka has developed a transparent solar cell that it hopes will be built onto electricity-generating windows.

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Solar Energy to become bigger

Gartner has predicted that the photovoltaic market will grow at a 17 percent compound annual growth rate between 2008 and 2013.

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Space-Based Power

The concept of Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) has been doing the rounds for decades with fantastic claims of 24 hour a day solar power beamed from space via microwave to any point on earth. A start up company called Space Energy, Inc says it plans to develop SBSP satellites to generate and transmit electricity to receivers on the Earth's surface. To do this, the company plans to create and launch a prototype satellite into low earth orbit (LEO). The hitch: this concept is based on as yet unproven technology.

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