Great DIY projects using solar energy

Pushkin Passey — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:58:50 +0000

Lifehacker has a brilliant article on 10 very easy DIY projects harnessing the solar energy from the sun. From doing really cool stuff like engraving on wood using sun as a laser beam to estimating the solar potential of your home to charging your iPhone using the sun. Worth a look!

The projects they have mentioned are:

1. Sun jar garden light
2. Charge an iPhone/iPod with the sun
3. Build a greenhouse for $50
4. Cook with a cardboard box
5. Extend Wi-Fi to your backyard
6. Estimate your home’s solar potential
7. Convert a lawnmower to solar power
9. Heat water in your backyard
10. Engrave wood with a “sun laser”

Here is the link: Lifehacker

Dumbest green buildings

Pushkin Passey — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:26:13 +0000

While any structure built in a way that lessens its footprint is welcomed, some of the buildings that people try to turn green simply make no sense.

LEED certification, in all its greatness, does not take the building’s intended purpose into account; this leaves us with some hilarious, unabashedly self-contradicting buildings.

Click here for ten of the most laughable green buildings.

Source: Green Building Elements via bldgsim

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