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Most read news of the week: March 20
The most read news of the last week selected by our editorial staff: the t-shirt that produces energy, the space solar panels and the new feature of Whatsapp
Giovanni Sapere
solar panels
Motors
Aptera: the car powered by solar panels
It is called Aptera and it is a car powered by the sun: the battery can store the energy needed to travel 72 km every day thanks to solar panels
Giovanni Sapere
Motors
Scania presents new trucks with solar panels
The Scandinavian company plans to launch a line of hybrid transport vehicles equipped with solar panels that directly power the motor’s electric unit
Mario Vincenzo La Rocca
Environment
Ecocapsule: the miniature house that you can buy online
Ecocapsule is a miniature house that can be purchased online for 49 thousand euros: the solar panels on the ceiling make the house green
Giovanni Sapere
Environment
In Piegaro there is the first “talking forest” connected to the IOT
Piegaro is the birthplace of the first talking forest where trees communicate with each other thanks to special IOT sensors powered by photovoltaic panels.
Giovanni Sapere
Environment
The Pipe: Combating drought by making sea water drinkable
Khalili Engineers has created “The Pipe”, a floating structure powered by solar panels capable of making sea water drinkable: it transforms 4.5 billion litres a year.
Giovanni Sapere
Chemistry
Recovering energy from artificial light: indoor solar panels are coming
Using excess indoor light to recover electricity? Now it’s possible thanks to a new generation of photovoltaic cells.
Mario Vincenzo La Rocca
News
Sailing among the stars with LightSail 2
In its constant search for alternative means of propulsion to those using fuel, the Planetary Society Foundation has in fact completed the LightSail 2 project, which sees the launch, on 22 June, of a small spacecraft that will take advantage of the thrust of solar radiation captured by its solar…
Giovanni Sapere
Biology
From the DNA, micro solar panels to capture sunlight
The innovative idea was put forward by a team of researchers from the University of Arizona, who deposited photosensitive pigments on a DNA filament.
Giovanni Sapere