Using only the filter pump that already exists in the pool, the pool itself as the energy storage unit and thermoplastic pool heating panels, Solar Swim has been specialized in swimming pool heating and comfort in since 1990; serving New York, New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania.

SolarSwim pool heating systems are low maintenance, come with responsible advantages that are good for the environment, economically sound and make for an intelligent choice in states where its unacceptably cold to swim outdoors for anywhere between 7-11 months out of the year.

SolarSwim uses free and renewable energy from the sun for a more self-reliant and sustainable living style.

Serving DC, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, SolaDesign will help your home, school or business recieve awards, partner with other green providers, recieve payback on initial investment, increase productivity, evaluate a buildings systems for more efficient control and reduce overall energy costs.

SolaDesign comes with a proven track record for success, easy low-cost installation, optimal flexibility for your lighting system, highest quality of florescent lighting, significant reduction to your utility bill and automatic adjusting electronic ballast with daylight harvesting.

SolaDesign is an owner operated company with a multidisciplinary team of installation, supply and design experts in daylight harvesting lighting control systems that bring daylight indoors in a more sustainable way that improves quality of life for everyone, be they residents, employees or customers.

Required rebates, processing, paperwork, inspection, incentive, permits, installation and all the ins and outs of solar energy generation, in an affordable manner; Sea Bright Solar helps you choose the best solar-powered system for your situation,design it and install it.

Sea Bright Solar is dedicated to helping the home or business owners break free of monthly electric bills from the grid, with turnkey sustainable solar energy, enabling clean, safe and cost-effective, renewable power through exceptional design and installation services for both commercial and residential uses, in New Jersey, California or New York.

Citizenre REnU will own, install, maintain, check-up and procure all the documentation that goes into having solar electricity in your home, charging nothing more than a monthly rental fee that comes out of what you would be saving on the current bill you get from the local power company.

The biggest benefit to Citizenre REnU is that the owner will no longer have to worry about sky-rocketing electricity bills over the next 25 years, nor the cost of replacement parts, maintenance fees or anything except the rental, which is fixed and well within their current budget.

Citizenre REnU Solar is solar power for those concerned about high-risk investment, skyrocketing energy bills from the grid and looking to add that feel of renewable energy to their own home, for a more sustainable quality of life, that makes sense.

Ever since the invention of the wooden toy horse, children have been fascinated with speed and being transported off to realms of infinite imagination, it was no different with the first electromagnetic toy race cars, and although solar toy race cars havent been so popular since the space race, when solar race cars were first sold in magazines like popular mechanics, they have finally made a come back

Solar energy, the power of the sun, that is what Go Green is about, and teaching our children with toys like Solar Racers^TMis a dynamic way to begin the conversations about sustainability and self-reliance, taking care of the earth as our civilization was intended by Mother Nature.

We dont need to use batteries to power our toy cars, when we have the sun, and it need not be any more expensive than one of those old racers that would use four double A batteries to go in circles for no more than half an hour and then need replacing.

Solar electric vehicles will go and go and go in the sun, and some will even go fast, if it is going to take a childs imagination to the future; to thoughts of self-reliance, for a more sustainable way of life, then that toy has done the job most educators can only hope for.

Manufactured by Uncle Milton, this outdoor racing set comes with two solar racer trikes, a starting gate, 5of race track, intended for ages 6 and up, for outdoor use only, on smooth surfaces, under direct sunlight; while individual solar racers are sold separately and there are a total of six different collectables, each racer measures 2 ½ x 1 1/8x ¾ with adjustable solar panels on top, shipping at 8 ounces.

This sun powered micro vehicles outdoor racing set with two Solar Racers^TM, was designed to teach children about solar energy in a fun and exciting way, through the Go Green toy line manufactured by Uncle Milton, a company that cares about the sustainability of tomorrow, beginning with our childrens education, today!

Not too many people understand the concept of entropy, but those of us who do, realize that we must conserve as much available energy as possible and condense the jobs done by each and ever last particle of thermal energy.

This is a book that takes that concept one beyond, into the realm of the designing of buildings to be thermally efficient, year round.

People know what it means to stay dry and warm all year round, just as much as they know what it means to burn up in the summer, which is why this concept must be taken farther than just providing a house full of skylights and sealing all windows and doors; the walls need to be taken into consideration and the materials they are made from.

When people finally realize the importance of conserving thermal energy in the home, and making the proper use of it, the right way, the market will flood with demand, will you be that professional who knows the answers to the markets demand?

This 296-page hardcover, written by A.K. Athienitis and Mat Santamouris, was published by Earthscan in November of 2002, measuring 9.3 x 6 x 0.8 and ships at 1.6 pounds.

For scientists, physicists, building engineers or the hardcore sustainable designer, this book takes you through each step of thermal analysis and design of passive solar buildings for a more comfortable quality of life that is ecologically correct as well as efficient.

This passive solar home video shows good basic design and low cost building:

Subjects range from business, calendar, current topics, news on policies, the latest at ASES, investing, editorial, new products, readers voice, resources, safety, worldview, teaching renewable energies, views from state to state, wind energy to professionals in the area.

For the latest up-to-date projects, news, investments and products in the worldwide solar market, Solar Today Magazine is a bimonthly publication that keeps you informed on a more self-reliant and sustainable today.

Comfort in the home, school or office of today, goes beyond the materials and building techniques of the industrial revolution, we are on the verge of total planetary meltdown, but by taking advantage of peoples deep down desires to become self-reliant, and some of the most insightful studies into architectural history, as well as the natural go-green-trends, we can achieve sustainability, one project at a time.

As thinkers, we know that the structures people live, work and play in, deeply affect their psychology, as well as their humor, and overall well-being.

If we have a building that is labeled as energy efficient, we know that those people using it, are going to think twice about the de mode artwork the interior decorator decided to place on the surface of a lobby wall, where we know from experience peoples attention is definitely going to fall most intently, because we understand exactly how the elements should play around each other.

In what way can we use natural sunlight and wind to keep a structure well lit, well ventilated, cool in the summer, warm in the winter and know exactly which option for what job is the best one, right now?

This 400-page paperback, written by G. Z. Brown and Mark DeKay, published by Wiley in the second edition as of October of 2004, with over 109 analysis/design techniques, over 750 illustrations, tables and sizing graphs inboth inch and metric, measuring 11 x 8.4 x 1.1 and shipping at 2.4 pounds.

Use nature to your advantage, with to-the-point knowledge for using onsite resources to their maximum efficiency for a more sustainable outlook on architectural design strategies that take the greatest advantages from sun, wind and light in the clearest detail for professionals who need answers right now.

When we think about the amount of energy a home uses to keep it warm in winter and cool in summer, we are staggered at what an incredible cost, and we may even ask if it is really necessary.

Are there ways to make our homes more sustainable in this sense? Yes, and The Passive Solar House is one of those ways that has been working for more than a decade now.

Once, James Kachadorian kept a patent on these techniques, when he was the president of Green Mountain Homes, but now it is open to the public at large and even comes with a computer program that will calculate all you need to know about your own project, along with any design modifications, and what kind of changes those modifications will actually create in the energy efficiency of your home.

It really is all about being energy efficient and more sustainable.

Passive solar homes take ancient knowledge from civilizations that were once great on this earth, and fuses that wisdom with building materials and concepts of today; into something far more sustainable and self-reliant, that will get the job done today, and in the long run, save energy for your pocket and the environment itself.

This 210-page paperback, written by James Kachadorian, published by Chelsea Green in June of 1997, measuring 10 x 8 x 0.6, ships at 1.4 pounds.

A home that will heat and cool itself, passively, no extra expenses, just the remodeling, original design, or maybe even renovation, James Kachadorian brings extraordinary techniques to life in this book, The Passive Solar House, using solar design to heat and cool your home.

The solar garden art light makes a due point of showing off the aesthetic nature of your garden after dark, throwing hues of light across the petals of flowers and the leaves of your favorite herbs while making a statement about being ecologically friendly.

Choose a Solar Art Light

This amber globe comes with a detachable stake section made of rust resistant stainless steel to achieve two different sizes, a photo sensor that slowly turns on at dusk and it harnesses the power of the sun through the internal solar panel that charges the internal batteries (included).

No wires, no electricity and no maintenance, these solar art lights are the perfect thing for supporting a plant or sapling, while continuously creating an abundant amount of light for eight hours after dusk for a more self-reliant and aesthetically pleasing result.

Manufacturer:
Allsop Home & Garden

Developed to take care of all the small-scale electronic needs such as batteries for radios and flashlights, the average cell phone, the game boy or just a camping flashlight, if you are going out into the woods for a weekend, electronic equipment can make the difference between life or death in some cases, and as long as you have a powerplant on-sight, you can set up camp anywhere around the world.

This battery charger made by GoldMaster is solar powered, with a built in 7 volt panel, it comes with an adjustable stand and is made of weather resistant fiberglass.

It will charge up to four NIMH or NiCad batteries at one time be they size D, C, AA or AAA.

It will also charge any portable game systems, torch/lantern, toys, radio/cassette player or mobile phones (all cables and multi-plugs are included).

It will charge under overcast skies (but of course, the more sunlight the better), the whole item measures 7 x 2.5 x 7, weighs 2 pounds and ships at 4 pounds.

Other Solar Powered Battery Chargers:

If you are thinking about bugging out this summer, remember to take all the essentials of good living with you and the family; a solar powered battery charger being the cheapest, most lightweight and efficient product to keep you in contact with civilization all season long.

Photovoltaic energy is one of the biggest, most booming trends in renewable energy at the moment, but also seems to be one of the most technologically complicated for the average consumer to understand in depth, and understanding the why or how something works, is just as much a part of self-reliance as the technology itself is.

Solar energy conversion relies basically on the same basic principles no matter what tech is in play, and usually those consist of some kind of absorber, embedded between layers, with a unique ability to transport electrons from semi permeable membranes on one end to holes on the other.

In more experimental technologies, such as photosynthetic solar panels for example, the absorption is performed, by simply baking one side of a pane of glass or plastic with a colored die, then smashing a protein chlorophyll-like substance between that plane and a clear one, sealing the ends with conductive materials.

In either case be they photovoltaics or photosynthetics, the solar panel will agitate electrons that consequently migrate to where there is a need for them, creating in this way, a current of energy.

This 198-page hardcover, written by Peter Würfel, first published by Wiley-VCH in March of 2005, measuring 9.6 x 6.8 x 0.6 and shipping at 1.2 pounds.

What makes a solar cell work?
What are the basic concepts like absorption and the transport properties of materials?

Physics of Solar Cells goes from principles to new concepts in an easy to grasp language that makes sense.

Online Media:
The Physics of Photovoltaic Cells - By Professor Robert H. B. Exell

The Chinese have always known the importance of conducting clean and refreshing soft breezes throughout the home; for aeons they have known this from the origins of Feng Shui, one of their most sacred cultural heritages, more than 30,000 years ago.

Bringing ancient knowledge in line with modern technology is part of creating a better way of life on the planet, and the many different cultures on earth all have something to teach one another, if only we keep our ears open and eyes peeled for insights.

Taking a small breeze in through the front window, and out through a back window, is exactly like sending Qi (Chi) throughout the structure, allowing one to revitalize and refresh ones own energies, constantly removing the polluted energies like a river filters polluted waters, making for a more appealing atmosphere that feels good, all the time, without using a single drop of electricity from the grid and completely offsetting the owners CO2 emissions.

This Solar Ventilator is black, easy to install, comes with reliable polycarbonate housing, has a current of 300mA, 2V output, 20mA to 100mA motor-current, 1V to 3V motor-voltage, two yards of cable wire from the solar panel to the fan body and a five inch fan; the body measures 140mm x 140mm x 75mm, while the panel measures 140mm x 67mm x 8mm and the whole thing ships at only 4 pounds.

Using the elements of nature to push and pull air around the home or office, this self-contained window fan, the Solar Ventilator, transforms your home into a self-reliant temple of peace and energy that reflects ancient thinking in modern technology.

This is an abstraction from the source-book, Practical Handbook of Photovoltaics, a book that explains the fundamentals and applications such as capture and use of photovoltaic systems; Solar Cells picks up where the first one leaves off, delving into the industry itself.

Throughout the last three decades, explaining advances in design and manufacturing that have allowed us to incorporate this energy into an emerging renewable sector that is changing the world around us, one solar investment after another, in search of self-reliance.

Solar Cells is more than a list of the materials used in production, it goes beyond this element, into design, functionality, testing, monitoring and calibration, giving us a thorough examination of current activities in this field.

This 556-page hardcover, was written by Tom Markvart and Luis Castaner, published by Elsevier Science, measuring 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.3 and shipping at 2.4 pounds.

Making Solar Cells understandable; the materials, manufacture and operation, including current activities in the industry, and the journey that it has gone through to get where we are today, are all covered in a no-nonsense language that makes sense for the average American looking to learn from the specialists about what is going on and what will happen with the evolving industry of the self-reliant energy of tomorrow.

Online Media:
Making Solar Cells from Household Materials - Cornell EDU (adobe reader file)

Science kits have always been great fun for children, helping them to explore the world of radio, electronics, chemistry, computers and now solar energy.

Learn how to build an electrical circuit, solar circuit, increase voltage, increase amperage, increase current, how to use solar energy to power small radios, battery chargers, cassette players and other small voltage devices that use batteries.

This toy solar kit comes with a booklet full of experiments that will help your child understand the fascinating realm of solar energy, one step at a time, on a bigger scale that looks beyond price tags and investmentsand directly into the practical use this technology offers.

In the past, we used to think of science kits as inspirational tools, for children looking to choose a profession, but there is much more to it than that, especially when we think about how important solar energy is for the future of our planet, as the main source of energy for all systems on earth, it is quickly earning its place in a market that is opening itself to sustainability.

This solar deluxe kit for kids is manufactured by Elenco, includes a 14-page instruction/experiment booklet, pre-wired 5 volt DC solar cells in sets of 3 fixed onto black plastic frames measuring 5 x 4 x 7/16, 5 volt DC motor, leads, mount, fan blade, four plastic discs from 5/8 2 diameter for the motor shaft, a 5 volt incandescent bulb (with leads), sound module (with leads), graphic cards for discs, the whole kit measuring 10 x 9.5 x 2, weighing 14.4 ounces and shipping at one pound.

This toy solar kit from Elenco is an educational science kit for kids, that shows how solar energy works, and more importantly, allows your child to use their creative imaginations in an investigative way, to learn about one of the most important technologies for tomorrows world of sustainability.

Elenco® Electronics Inc.
150 Carpenter Ave.
Wheeling, IL 60090
847-541-3800

Alternative fuels need to come from renewable sources of energy and the H-2 Racer is a non-polluting toy muscle car that gets its energy from sunlight and water, both abundant sources of energy.

We love our racecars, but more importantly, we love the speed that a muscle car can dish out; that movement along the racetrack, like a lightning bolt or a particle of dynamic, spinning energy.

The solar panel powers the fueling station, in turn, transforming water into hydrogen and oxygen, storing the hydrogen in the fueling station, which then fuels the hydrogen fuel cell inside the H-2 Racer for a powerful burst of muscle-car engineering that makes sense.

Hydrogen Toy Car Video

The H-2 Racer has the smallest on-board hydrogen fuel cell yet commercially available, requires no batteries, takes about 20 minutes to assemble, comes with an instruction kit, solar panel, fueling station, does not perform like a remote control car, will operate for about 4 minutes (100 yards) on a full tank, and ships at only 3 pounds.

This is a hydrogen toy car that was developed for educational purposes, to show our children the sustainable possibilities of tomorrow, letting the imagination soar, through fun and excitement.

Media:
H2-Car Brochure (adode pdf file)

The solar energy plants eSolar makes are based on 25 MW units, and can lay out to over 500 MW as necessary to meet electrical power generation needs.

eSolar Inc. can develop custom solutions that make sense with an edge on solar thermal technology that is reliable, durable, quickly installed, stable, low profile and most importantly; cost effective, due to the mass production of small heliostats (which work like mirrors).

The solar arrays designed by eSolar Inc. use a parabolic solution, directing the full spectrum of solar light onto a single collection point like a satellite dish, working as a passive tracker, able to harness the full potential of the suns rays in any given plot of land.

Multiple arrays allow for a morestable solution in the event that one plant goes off-line, the others continue functioning; this is the perfect thing for hippie communities looking to build an Oasis in the middle of the South Western Mexican-American desert regions, as well as industries and factories.

This is a great idea for utility companies looking to invest in solar power quickly and cheaply, or cities looking to reach emissions standards on time.

But what makes eSolar Inc. so special, is going against the traditional bigger is better idea of most energy generation facilities (including renewable energy), using an array of smaller heliostatsthat are mass produced and placed geometrically into a parabolic fashion, onsite.

These smaller heliostats make production, transportation, and onsite installation faster and far more energy efficient than any other form of solar thermal energy that has yet to appear, eSolar Inc. is producing the next revolution in solar thermal energy plants.

Investing in renewable energy that is cheaper than fossil fuels is more than an objective for eSolar, it is their passion, creating a revolution that will show the world what RE can really do for a cleaner and greener tomorrow, starting today.

eSolar Inc.
130 West Union Street
Pasadena, CA 91103
Phone: 626.585.6900

These can range from two wheels, three wheels or even four wheels if not more depending on their use (there are even velomobiles used as moving pubs!), but until now the most popular velomobiles have been three wheeled recumbents, while solar power continues to be only an option among those interested in electric assist, solar power has still been gainingrecognition outside the area of cycling.

The expectation among sustainable engineers in the area such as Frederik van de Walle (who wrote “The Velomobile as a Vehicle for more Sustainable Transportation“) is that by launching more efficient and cost-effective velomobiles with electric assist, targeting people going to and from school or work everyday in their cars that both public awareness on sustainability and public health will increase immensely.

By offering the single-seat recumbent tricycle style velomobile that works efficiently, with thin-film solar cells used as a skin over the existing body and an electric assist motor, with powerful lithium batteries at an affordable price, and in abundance to the general population for short commutes, a whole new world of sustainable transportation could open up that would greatly impact our worlds current CO2 footprint not to mention reduce traffic jams and cases of road rage.

Solar powered velomobiles are as of yet still only a design concept; those that possess them are usually slapping them together on their own, by simply equipping their existing velomobile with an onboard solar array, but as of yet, the cases of these are few and only for the more hardcore velomobilists.

What could change all of that and cause a real rift in the way we see cars and traffic would be if this stuff got out into the mainstream.

Today in the US, the two more recently commercially available thin-film solar cells and the more potent lithium batteries, are the technologies that make this kind of a change possible.

Without those, this technology would still be in the dark ages, but most importantly, the price needs to come down to something reasonably acceptable and affordable to those who commute everyday in the city.

It has even been suggested that the type of materials used in the frame also be made of renewable materials like wood instead of metal alloys that have been melded and shaped to an exhausting degree.

The short commute vehicle that uses self-reliant energy generation, develops the owners health, manages to reduce traffic jams and road rage and is readily available to everyone not so sports inclined both financially as well as athletically, will quickly dominate the scene across the cities of our great nation, only time and lack of awareness impede the market now.

With solar powered electric assist, tricycle recumbent design and protection from the elements, this is more than just a solar bike; a well-priced solar powered velomobile could be the wave of the future.

According to Bradford, the global energy industry is one that needs to draw away from non-sustainable sources of energy and this book explains exactly why and how solar power will begin to supply both the economics and business of the industry with an alternative choice that works efficiently in a high-tech manner.

Passive solar and low-tech solutions like skylights, windows, cloths lines and water distillation technologies are NOT a part of this solar revolution however, as this book covers the movement towards solar energy as an economic transformation and the clear cut decisions of a capitalist system being forced into eco-friendly business ethics rather than a cultural revolution or trend.

This 254-page hardcover written by Travis Bradford, published by The MIT Press in September of 2006 measures 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 and ships at one Pound.

In the 1980s SWOTs made the difference, in the 1990s creative thinking, innovation and companies that were learning to learn found themselves marked by extreme budget cuts as the big difference, but now the trend has become emotional intelligence and eco-friendliness.

This sink or swim law of basic competition is what is forcing the global energy industry into following the Solar Revolution in an economic transformation andTravis Bradford tells the story that is already becoming a reality within our lifetime.

Solar Revolution shows us exactly how high-tech renewable sources of energy will soon be cheaper than all other conventional forms of electricity and exactly how you can take advantage of this today.

About Author:
Travis Bradford - Founder of The Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development.

Velomobile Electric Assist System - See it work.

Bicycles, even the recumbent tricycle (recumbents get the most efficiency out of our leg strokes), depend on the physical conditioning of the pilot to achieve maximum performance, be that performance speed, distance or both, making other modes of transportation more favorable for inner city transportation, such as the motorcycle or the car, especially when people enjoy doing as little as possible.

As an alternative, the electric assist motors available on the market today far outweigh anything that has been around before in terms of sustainable modes of transportation, but the biggest innovation has only come in recent years with more powerful and potent rechargeable battery packs, that are not only a reasonable weight, but also have versatile speed control options at the touch of a finger.

Electrical power to charge the batteries on electric assist motors can come from the grid or off the grid, models such as the Nano Motor or the Bionx Motor come with the electromagnetic motor placed inside a standard 26 inch rear wheel and pedaling or downhill will also further charge such systems manually.

Those with off the grid systems at home usually use either wind, solar or a combination of the two to provide a central powering station for such electric assist motors.

Practically speaking, any electric charging system can be used, but what gives this system an edge in sustainable practices is the self-sufficient autonomy of renewable energy sources.

In recent years, solar power has been pointed as one of the major determining factors in making the most out of electric assist motors, and getting them marketed on a larger scale, the keywords being self-reliance and sustainability.

An electric assist motor system with onboard power generation becomes analogous to the Viking sailing ships of old that could row when there was no wind, use the wind as an assist or just use the winditself when it was present; allowing more freedom of travel.

Who even needs to stay to the roads or near a gas station if the electric assist motor is on a mountain bike and carries its own solar panel?

Aesthetics however are a deep concern among enthusiasts, as solar panels have traditionally looked so big, bulky and rather non-curvature in nature, where sports cars look like bullets ready to fly, these have looked rather box or fish like.

In this interest, it has been suggested, especially for velomobiles (imagine these by thinking of the Flintstones family car), that by using thin-film solar technologies, the curves and the natural beauty of models such as Go-One3, can not only remain, but also provide the necessary power generation as they are flexible and even semi-transparent.

When such sustainable power generators as thin-films, are made with sustainable practices at the factory itself in order to reduce their CO2 footprint, solar electric assist becomes even more sustainable!

The electric assist motor is readily becoming a more efficient alternative to gas guzzling motorcycles and cars, even the electric car, as it uses less energy, and can be absolutely free when used together with sustainable technologies like onboard thin-film solar power generators.

The electric assist motor is a more sustainable alternative to the world we live in, reducing traffic jams by reducing the space we take up as single passengers in a four seater (for example going to and from work or school), allowing awareness about the alternatives grow towards a more productive and pollution free tomorrow.