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A truly green solar panel

Don’t spray and walk away – that moss on your driveway could soon be the ultimate clean, green power source.

Giant mirrors power 140,000 homes

One of the largest solar power plants in the world has been unveiled and is providing enough eco-friendly electricity to power 140,000 homes.

Solar's bright future

Warren Judd shows how home solar power now makes both environmental and financial sense.

Refuel while you drive

Ford is set to release a car with rooftop solar panels that charges as you drive.

Kiwi invents glow-in-the-dark path

No more expensive street lights churning through electricity – that’s the appeal to councils of a new Kiwi-designed glowing path. Whereas the appeal to drunk people walking home at 3am is feeling like they’re in a scene from Avatar…

Solar light bulbs made from plastic bottles, water and bleach

These amazing light bulbs use no power and are being installed in slums to illuminate houses that have no electricity or windows for natural light. Downside: they only work during the day! Check out the video here.

Pacific power

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Tokelau, the New Zealand territory northwest of the Cook Islands, has become the first territory in the world that can produce on average 100% of its energy requirements using solar power. Through the Tokelau Renewable Energy Project, a project funded with New Zealand’s aid allocation to the territory, the three