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(Swedish: Hogslätts Vänboende)
In 2013 a building cooperative was formed and in 2018 the housing was inaugurated: 12 apartments plus a common living room in a housing cooperative. One of the purposes is that anyone can afford the apartments. All tenants are members in a economic association that owns the plot and the buildings. Heating is done with a geothermal heat pump and the solar cells on the roofs provide almost half of the total electricity demand.
Architect: Hans Sörqvist. Builder: Ulf Pagander.
hogsl%c3%a4ttsv%c3%a4nbo.se (website in Swedish)
The block "Embassy of Sharing" is situated next to the railway station in Hyllie, a part of Malmö city. The block consists of seven buildings with different content, some of them are under construction. In the block there will be, among other things, nearly 300 homes, offices, bazaars, startup environments, a library, a bicycle café and small industries. The tall building called "Fyrtornet" ("The Lighthouse"), is Sweden's tallest wooden office building. The glass facade is partly windows and partly solar cells.
"Embassy of Sharing" was the winning proposal in an architectural competition. It is designed by Wingårdhs Arkitekter and built by Granitor.
www.wingardhs.se/freshest/fyrtornet (website mostly in Swedish)
The drive engineering for orientation to the sun and folding. Solar panels in the shape of a flower. Wattwil, Switzerland, June 10, 2016. (3/3)
Solar Poweered Flying Pig Tchotchke
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camera: Olympus E-520 DLSR
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filter: Hoya HD UV
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"This is a photograph of some of the discarded perovskite solar cells in the characterisation lab. They were once high performing but have now degraded as indicated by the colour change from brown to orange and yellow.
Due to the cheap materials and ease of processing perovskite solar cells have the potential to be a much cheaper photovoltaic technology than established ones such as silicon. However as shown here the big challenge is preventing their degradation. Therefore research into the stability and lifetime of perovskite solar cells is extremely important."
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"Dyma ffotograff o rai o’r celloedd solar pevroskite sydd wedi cael eu taflu o’r neilltu yn y labordy nodweddu. Roeddent unwaith yn perfformio’n dda ond nawr maent wedi dirywio sy’n amlwg o’r newid yn eu lliw, o frown i oren a melyn.
O ganlyniad i’r deunyddiau rhad a rhwyddineb eu prosesu mae gan gelloedd solar pevroskite y potensial i fod yn dechnoleg ffotofoltäig rhatach na rhai safonol megis silicon. Fodd bynnag, fel y dangosir yma, y brif her yw eu hatal rhag dirywio. Felly, mae ymchwil i sefydlogrwydd a hyd oes celloedd solar ‘perovskite’ yn hynod bwysig."
Electricity production in a creative way. The system follows the sun in direction and angle. The efficiency is better than fixed mounted panels on the roof, but the design effort is complex. One advantage is that the system can be moved easy to another location. It is a chance discovery, and I don't know more about it. Wattwil, Switzerland, June 10, 2016. (1/3) >
A transparent perovskite solar cell next to a back-contacted silicon solar cell. By stacking both cell on top of each other, efficiencies of 30% can be reached. More info: magazine.imec.be/data/59/reader/reader.html?t=14460188381...
The Sun Ship is the service center for the Solar Settlement in Vauban district, Freiburg City, Germany. On the ground floor there is an eco-supermarket, a pharmacy store and a café. On the roof of the Sun Ship building there are nine penthouses.
The cables in the air belong to the city tram system.
It is the first commercial PlusEnergy building (it produces more energy than it expends). On the roof there is a large mounted photovoltaic unit. The walls have special triple-paned windows and vacuum insulation panels. Ventilation with heat recovery is also integrated into the facade. The construction of the building gives an annual primary energy savings of about 1 million kWh.
Architect: Rolf Disch. The color concept was developed by a Berlin artist, Erich Wiesner.
Rolf Disch Solar Architecture www.rolfdisch.de (website also in English)
The two blocks of flats, Holmen and Grynnan, have building integrated photovoltaic systems (the darker parts of the facade, about 400 sqm).
The buildings consists of 212 dwellings plus shops, restaurants etc on the ground floor.
The neighbourhood was 2005 awarded the Kasper Salin-price for best new buildings and urban park in Sweden by The Swedish Association of Architects.
Built: 2004. Architect: White, Stockholm. www.white.se (website also in English)
PictionID:44802777 - Catalog:14_013712 - Title:Atlas Details: Solar Cells on OV-1 Dome Date: 02/28/1966 - Filename:14_013712.TIF - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
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Rotterdam Central Station / Benthem Crouwel Architects + MVSA Architects + West 8
Project Year: 2014
The largely transparent roof structure which covers all the tracks over a length of 250 meters, flood the platforms with light. The glass plates of the roof vary the level of light transmittance by utilizing different solar cells patterns, which produce an ever-changing and fascinating play of shadows on the platforms.
www.archdaily.com/588218/rotterdam-central-station-benthe...
Another view on the new Central Station in Rotterdam. With all these solar cells above your head, it looks like you've just had a shot of very strong coffee, or worse... Makes me feel queezy looking at this photo!
The entrance to the ETC Cottage (Swedish: ETC Torp) - you can pick a tomato when you pass. A house with a roof made of solar cells and a greenhouse towards south. The frame and the walls are made of wood - a climate-positive building that stores carbon dioxide. The foundation consists of foam glass, no concrete is used. It is so energy efficient that it can provide energy to at least one more house. The building is a show house and you can buy a house like that from the building company ETC Bygg.
Built: 2022.
One of the buildings in the ETC Solar Park in Katrineholm.
etcbygg.se/ett-klimatsmart-hus/ (website in Swedish)
The red house is typical for Sweden. The traditional red paint contains pigment from the copper-mine in Falun, Dalecarlia.
09 July 2012 19:17
The new main office building of the Japanese architecture and construction company Shimizu, located in Kyobashi near Tokyo Station. The facade features building-integrated solar panels (BIPV), light-transmissive thin-film photovoltaic (left part) and polycrystalline silicon pv panels (right part).
Pentax K20D
smc Pentax DA 18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 ED AL [IF] @ 77mm, F8, ISO 100, 8s
For more information about the project and architect see: japan-architect.jimdo.com/japanese-architects/shimizu-cor...
a7rii + Voigtlander Heliar Hyper Wide 10mm F5.6 E
Rotterdam Central Station / Benthem Crouwel Architects + MVSA Architects + West 8
Project Year: 2014
The largely transparent roof structure which covers all the tracks over a length of 250 meters, flood the platforms with light. The glass plates of the roof vary the level of light transmittance by utilizing different solar cells patterns, which produce an ever-changing and fascinating play of shadows on the platforms.
www.archdaily.com/588218/rotterdam-central-station-benthe...
Fulton Center Station - what a beautiful addition to lower Manhattan!
Photo by Silvia Matera Gerber ©2014 - Nikon
(Instagram @NewYorkHoje)
The solar cells are also sun shades for the windows (not as many solar cells as in front of the walls). 8 flats built in 2004. Architect: White arkitekter. Builder: Familjebostäder.
Solar cells on southern wall (109 sqm) and on roof (118 sqm). Export of localy produced electricity during day time and purchase of electricity from the grid at night. Project name in Swedish: Lysande.
www.white.se (website also in English)
The school in Stadsskogen in Alingsås City is Sweden´s first school certified as zero energy bulding. The roof is covered with 1300 sqm solar cells, in 2013 the largest solar cell unit in Sweden. The foreground is a part of the green roof on the school´s Activity Hall.
Built: 2013. Architect: Liljewall arkitekter.
www.liljewall-arkitekter.se (website only in Swedish)
The picture shows the terraces formation in the surface of the semiconductor Cu(In,Ga)Se2 used in the manufacture of solar cells. Co-authors: Isidoro Ignacio Poveda, Enrique Rodríguez Cañas, Esperanza Salvador, from SIDI UAM.
Courtesy of Eberhardt Josue Friedrich Kernahan
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Instrument used: XL SEM Family
Magnification: 3000
Voltage: 15 kV
Spot: 3
Working Distance: 7
Detector: SE
a7rii + Voigtlander Heliar Hyper Wide 10mm F5.6 E
Rotterdam Central Station / Benthem Crouwel Architects + MVSA Architects + West 8
Project Year: 2014
The largely transparent roof structure which covers all the tracks over a length of 250 meters, floods the platforms with light. The glass plates of the roof vary the level of light transmittance by utilizing different solar cells patterns, which produce an ever-changing and fascinating play of shadows on the platforms.
www.archdaily.com/588218/rotterdam-central-station-benthe...
An entry for the challenge group 52 in 2015, #37 Repetition.
An entry for the challenge group 115 in 2015, #88 Repetition.
Repeating squares (solar cells) that make up the solar panels - great things for insulating the roof of your house, but pricey!
Photovoltaic cells covering the surface of one of the solar cars preparing for the North American Solar Challenge.
PlusEnergy homes produce more energy than they consume. All of the houses have large photovoltaic roofs. The supplementary income heavily outweighs the low additional building costs. All houses are wooden and built only with healthy building materials.
There are no parking places around the houses - instead there´s a parking garage underneath the nearby service center building. The inhabitants who want so can participate in a well organized Car-Sharing system. At the service center there are also stops for the city trams.
Vauban district, Freiburg City, Germany.
Architect: Rolf Disch. Rolf Disch Solar Architecture www.rolfdisch.de (website also in English)
The Sun Ship is the service center for the Solar Settlement in Vauban district, Freiburg City, Germany. On the ground floor there is an eco-supermarket, a pharmacy store and a café.
It is the first commercial PlusEnergy building (it produces more energy than it expends). On the roof there is a large mounted photovoltaic unit. The walls have special triple-paned windows and vacuum insulation panels. Ventilation with heat recovery is also integrated into the facade. The construction of the building gives an annual primary energy savings of about 1 million kWh.
Architect: Rolf Disch. The color concept was developed by a Berlin artist, Erich Wiesner.
Rolf Disch Solar Architecture www.rolfdisch.de (website also in english)
The school in Stadsskogen in Alingsås City is Sweden´s first school certified as zero energy bulding. The roof is covered with 1300 sqm solar cells, the largest solar cell unit in Sweden when installed.
Built: 2013. Architect: Liljewall arkitekter.
www.liljewall-arkitekter.se (website only in Swedish)
www.nollhus.se (website only in Swedish)
Copyright © 2013 by Ian J MacDonald. Permission required for any use. All rights reserved
Tellus (latin) "Goddess of the Earth"
The entire set: www.flickr.com/photos/ianmacdonald/sets/72157636356726526/
These illustrations are meant to represent the elements of the periodic table. The drawings are influenced by the Art Deco friezes seen on buildings of the 1920s and 30s - deities were used to represent the essence of the ideas being represented; such as industries, scientific ideas, civic ideals etc...
While the Art Deco style is an influence I did not want to directly copy what has been already been done or hang slavishly onto examples of Art Deco. I am endeavoring to work in the style, imagining creating something new in that moment when Art Deco was current.
Each element is represented by a goddess embedded in a representational background. The deities are purposely done in a sketchy manner - opposite to the solid background - to represent the quantum mechanical nature of atoms and particles. In quantum mechanics particles have no meaning as solid defined units of matter but are statistical entities described by complex (literally and mathematically) wave functions that provide us with the probable positions and energies of particles and systems of particles - an unsettling prospect for many people.
I represent the essence of the elements by goddesses for several reasons. One, they are more interesting, complex, beautiful to draw than males. Secondly it is more challenging to represent the essence of the elements in a feminine rather than a male manner. Unfortunately, science and chemistry has been male dominated and as such so has the naming and descriptions of the elements. These are meant to somewhat challenge the viewer by juxtaposing the female essence with male dominance in science. It would be too simple and cliche to represent iron, for example, as a Mars-like God. Some of the elements are quite dangerous to living creatures and it is far more challenging to express that in a feminine manner.
I was asked if people would get past the nudity. The answer is "No". But that is OK. I want the beauty and vulnerability to attract attention. Science is after all quite beautiful if one takes the time to stop fighting the math and difficulties in understanding, and immerse themselves in it to appreciate just how weird and strange nature really is be - far beyond anything humans could come up with. The nudity somewhat represents the primal, elemental nature of the different atoms. Clothing, such as suit of armor for iron, is a distraction and again too simple and cliche.
But all in all the representation is not direct. Some influence comes from the elements' names - often from properties of the elements, literary references, where they were isolated, political rivalries, honors for discoverers etc... Some influence comes from the bulk properties of the elements such as harness, conductivity, toxicity, density, etc.... Some of the pieces are inspired by the major uses for the element - in industrial processes, in natural biological processes, nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, in everyday objects, and so on.
This is a work in progress and my second go at it. I have been tinkering at this for some time and I think these are closer to the vision in my head than what I have done earlier. Enjoy.
"The Tiros IV weather satellite is placed on a pedestal to check weight and balance prior to mating to Delta launch booster."
Per NSSDCA/NASA:
TIROS 4 (Television and InfraRed Observation Satellite) was a spin-stabilized meteorological spacecraft designed to test experimental television techniques and infrared equipment. The satellite was in the form of an 18-sided right prism, 107 cm in diameter and 56 cm high. The top and sides of the spacecraft were covered with approximately 9000 1- by 2-cm silicon solar cells. It was equipped with two independent television camera subsystems for taking cloudcover pictures and three radiometers (two-channel low-resolution, omnidirectional, and five-channel scanning) for measuring radiation from the earth and its atmosphere. The satellite spin rate was maintained between 8 and 12 rpm by the use of five diametrically opposed pairs of small solid-fuel thrusters. The satellite spin axis could be oriented to within 1- to 2-deg accuracy by use of a magnetic control device consisting of 250 cores of wire wound around the outer surface of the spacecraft. The interaction between the induced magnetic field in the spacecraft and the earth's magnetic field provided the necessary torque for attitude control. The flight control system also optimized the performance of the solar cells and TV cameras and protected the five-channel infrared radiometer from prolonged exposure to direct sunlight. With the exception of the degraded response of the five-channel scanning radiometer, the spacecraft performed normally until May 3, 1962, when one camera failed. On June 10, 1962, the other camera's tape recorder failed. The scanning radiometer provided usable data until June 30, 1062. A complete description and performance summary for TIROS 4, is presented in the 'Journal of the British Interplanetary Society,' Vol. 19, 386-409, 1963-4.
Available at: nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1962-002A
A bright morning sun reflects off the solar panels on the rooftops of the University of San Francisco.
Taken by a camera lofted by a helium balloon.
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The school in Stadsskogen in Alingsås City is Sweden´s first school certified as zero energy bulding. The roof is covered with 1300 sqm solar cells, then the largest solar cell unit on building in Sweden.
Built: 2013. Architect: Liljewall arkitekter.
www.liljewall-arkitekter.se (website only in Swedish)
www.nollhus.se (website only in Swedish)
15 terraced houses in a tenant-owners´ society. Built: 2019. Builder: Götenehus. Architects: Yellon (Sara Jansson). The solar cells on the roofs are a later addition.
yellon.se (website also in English)
(Swedish: Hogslätts Vänboende)
In 2013 a building cooperative was formed and in 2018 the housing was inaugurated: 12 apartments plus a common living room in a housing cooperative. One of the purposes is that anyone can afford the apartments. All tenants are members in a economic association that owns the plot and the buildings. Heating is done with a geothermal heat pump and the solar cells on the roofs provide almost half of the total electricity demand.
Architect: Hans Sörqvist. Builder: Ulf Pagander.
hogsl%c3%a4ttsv%c3%a4nbo.se (website in Swedish)
Photovoltaic panels are wiped off for peak performance at The Wash Basket Laundromat, in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, on April 20, 2011. The business qualified for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD) Rural Energy for America Program assistance to add 72 photovoltaic panels (solar cells) which helps runs the laundry machines and reduce electrical demand by 1/3. The array generates 20,000 KW/year, an approximate $250 savings per month. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
The solar shade fully deployed uses flexible solar panels to provide two kilowatts of power daily. Using flexible solar cells could eventually save millions in Army fuel costs. In fact, the project was recently nominated for recognition in the Secretary of the Army Water and Energy Awards because of the more than $230,000 savings by using the solar shade.
U.S. Army photo
The silence of nonpolluting solar energy at work will someday replace the hum of muffled generators in remote field locations.
Maj. Tim Franklin from the U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command is the lead in coordinating an experiment using flexible solar cells that could eventually save millions in Army fuel costs. In fact, the project was recently nominated for recognition in the Annual Secretary of the Army Energy and Water Management Awards because of the more than $230,000 savings by using the solar shade.
The concept is simple – flexible solar cells affixed to a sun shelter then connected to a system of storage batteries.
“Solar shade produces two kilowatts of power -- that may not seem like a lot, but in a remote area it’s perfect because you don’t have to worry about transporting fuel or replacing parts,” Franklin said. “You could place this on a remote mountain site to provide power for a radio retransmission site [since] it requires very little maintenance,” Franklin said.
Flexible Solar Cell System
Quiet
Requires minimal maintenance
Produces clean energy from the sun
Works at night pending storage batteries charged
Cost effective
Operating area requires 40 by 60-foot area
Franklin added that the heart of the solar shade consist of four Hawker High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle batteries with a balancing system featuring a simple voltage meter with a 110 volt power inverter.
In July 2010, with the help of Kansas Army National Guardsmen assigned to the Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa, Franklin along with Steve Tucker, the lead for alternative power programs at U.S. Army Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center, traveled to Djibouti to set-up the solar shade.
Solar Cell Energy at Work
Running on fans, hand-held radio chargers and lights, the system has been cranking out two kilowatts of power daily, Franklin said.
“Soldiers with the Kansas Guard have been using the shade every day since last July – it has even survived some storms that damaged other structures,” Franklin said. “In the near future, [Steve and I] will travel to Djibouti to train a new group of CJTF – HOA Kansas National Guard Soldiers on use of the solar shade.”
Because of the overall benefits, Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa wants to keep the equipment and have added it to their property books since they plan to use it in other locations and on other missions in Africa.
“The solar shade produces power and gets about 70 to 80 percent blockage of the sun, so the shade is cooler than many of tents or shades used now and it produces clean energy from the sun,” Franklin said.
“You’re actually reducing the use of air conditioning units too, so there’s really a triple benefit along with the free clean source of energy,” he said.
Franklin concluded that they haven’t yet heard how they fared in the 33rd Annual Secretary of the Army Energy and Water Management Awards, but to be nominated is such an honor.
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The school in Stadsskogen in Alingsås City is Sweden´s first school certified as zero energy bulding (the roof is covered with solar cells).
Built: 2013. Architect: Liljewall arkitekter.
www.liljewall-arkitekter.se (website only in Swedish)
www.nollhus.se (website only in Swedish)